With Flat TV Ratings, Has Oscar Lost His Pre-Eminent Cultural Status? "Hollywood has started coming to grips with one of its biggest worries: Is this the new normal for the Oscars? A diminished attraction that ranks well behind the Super Bowl and a host of playoff games, and has even been eclipsed by a surging, better-suited-to-the social-media-age Grammys?" The New York Times 02/28/12