News? Maybe

TV ratings are not newsworthy to me.


Yes, it's important that the Federer-Roddick Final is the most viewed since the final of '99. I guess. But the important, most deciding factor that drives me against this as news is this. I don't care. I just don't. Berate me if you will. Tell me it's a slow news day. Tell me they write about everything and this is significant. But don't tell me that you care. I know you don't. No one cares what the TV ratings of a tennis match are compared to a match ten years ago. This belongs in a research paper. TV ratings are not exciting.


They are not important to anyone who doesn't work in TV. And I would bet that the ratings bore them, maybe even more than you and me.

So take your TV ratings and be selfish, keep them to yourselves. We don't want to read about it. We don't care.