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Article: Readers home in on blog-inspired `Desperate Housewives' criticism.

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May 5, 2006
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Byline: Maureen Ryan

Declaring "Desperate Housewives" to be the worst show on the broadcast networks, as I did in a recent blog entry at chicagotribune.com/watcher, is bound to attract a certain amount of flackflak.

One fan of the ABC show e-mailed that he would never read my work again. Other fans declared, in comments on the Web site, that I just didn't get "Housewives" _ I didn't get that the show is meant to be escapist entertainment, "fun in a world of craziness," as one reader noted.

All that disagreement is fine _ welcome, even _ and it's all par for the course for anyone who throws opinions out into the world for a living. But the fact ...

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