WELL, DUH:

AS the ratings have rolled in for the first three weeks of the new television season, one question has dominated the conversations inside the industry’s executive suites: what the heck is going on? . . .

And men between 18 and 24 are apparently deserting television in droves. So far this year nearly 20 percent fewer men in that advertiser-friendly demographic are watching television during prime time than during the same period last year.

They can’t all be reading blogs — but if network executives were reading blogs, they wouldn’t be so baffled. Heck, if they were watching their own shows, they wouldn’t be so baffled. . . .

UPDATE: As further evidence of cluelessness, they’re trying to keep people from “stealing” stuff that they can’t give away.