COMMENTERRY—

"Wrestling tops TV Ratings"

A recent news story said the rankings for the top 15 TV programs on cable networks one recent January week were led by “WWE Raw”; a wrestling show.

Another TV offering high in the ratings that week went to a thing called “SpongeBob Square Pants” on Nickelodeon.

Isn’t Nickelodeon a juvenile network? There certainly, then, must have been an awful lot of pre-pubescent adult votes reflected in these results.

Or, worse yet, must we conclude this is somehow a valid measure of society’s current level of intellectual or, even entertainment appetite?

Heaven help us.