FROM THE FOLKS WHO BRING YOU TV
Some months back, the research team of Lichter and Rothman made the most in-depth study ever conducted of those who are responsible for our entertainment programs. Those researched represented the ‘cream of television’s creative community.’ Of the people who control television, who tell us what we can watch on the networks, 59% were raised in Jewish homes, 25% in Protestant homes, and 12% in Catholic homes. (This compares with a population which is 67% Protestant, 22% Catholic and 2.5% Jewish.) At the present time 93% of these people say they seldom or never attend worship and 44% currently claim no religion at all. Lichter and Rothman said that 97% of these people…
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