Speaking of the Letterman/Palin incident, there’s a lot of TV-industry buzz about how much this flap likely has helped Letterman’s ratings. “It will be interesting to see if that can be maintained, or whether it is one of those temporary things,” said Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University.
Which begs one other question. The Center for the Study of Popular Television: How’s that for a higher ed gig?