Red states, blue TV

From WorkingForChange:

An enduring paradox of our times is that the very people who enjoy watching trashy television heap so much opprobrium on the machinery that produces it. Red-state America hates Hollywood, according to its self-appointed leaders. After national elections in which "moral values" supposedly trumped other concerns, Karl Rove summed up the results: "I think it's people who are concerned about the coarseness of our culture, about what they see on the television sets, what they see in the movies."

Yet red-staters can't get enough of that coarseness. Take this season's breakaway hit, ABC's "Desperate Housewives." One of the show's tawdry plot lines involves a 30-something married woman who is having an affair with her 17-year-old gardener. During November sweeps, the show had higher viewership in red-state markets such as Dallas-Fort Worth and Kansas City than in the blue-state markets of New York and Chicago.

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Hmmm. Maybe they think that sex is better when you're ashamed of it.

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