On the one hand

Al Franken's radio talk show has pulled ahead of Bill O'Reilly in the New York City market ratings.

The number one new DVD release in total sales this week was OUTFOXED, the docu-expose of Fox News.

but on the other...

Customers get so angry when Linda Ronstadt mentions Michael Moore's name that she gets thrown out of the hotel where she is a headliner, and millions go ballistic because Martha Stewart got too long/too short of a jail sentence, but not a peep, not a quiver, not an iota of interest greets the finding that seventy percent of American fourth graders can't read or do math to their grade level.