How do I become a Nielsen rating household? [View All]

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I have just about had it with all of these "Nielsen" families who purport to represent the rest of us in America. I want to stand up and be counted too. Do my favorite shows get officially credited with one viewer when I tune in to watch? How on earth can these people claim that because a couple of thousand households with a bogus machine in their TV tuned in to a show that therefore "18 million people" watched CSI? Come on. 18 million ought to mean 18 million. I want to stand up and be counted for watching the shows that I watch so that they might stay on the air and not be drown out by an endless lineup of cop shows, courtroom dramas, hospital shows and "reality" shows . So where do I go, what do I do so that I too can have as much influence as the mindless Nielsen household morons who keep watching all the crummy shows that keep getting renewed, and renewed, and renewed...