Did I call it or what?
May 11th, 2006 | by john |Again, I don’t watch American Idol. However, I can read the frontpage headlines although I can’t believe they are frontpage headlines of just about every general news media outlet. Every single season you have ‘Shocking American Idol booted!’ near the end of the season. Aside from ‘angry American Idol fans that will watch the next season no matter how angry they are’ – what else did FOX get? Free publicity. Free attention.
Fraction news coverage:
American Idol: American Injustice – Have The Voters Gone Mad?
Some callers claim ‘Idol’ votes were misdirected
An excerpt from my post entitled Current events on April 21st:
I hate American Idol. I thought it was dumb the first season, I still think it is absolutely dumb. I don’t understand how so many Americans seem addicted to this glamour-ized version of whatever it was at the Apollo show decades ago. It’s a reality show that is governed by television gimmicks like any other show on 24 hours a day. What? The show gets viewers involved? How do you know? You ever seen a 1994 movie called Quiz Show? It was about a very popular quiz show with contestants that were picked to win prior to the show being taped. Now, I’m not saying American Idol is fixed (although it would be awesome if it was and it causes the downfall of American Idol). In the end though, all those votes that the American public sends in – they are not ever accounted for in their production of the show. There is always news once every season of American Idol where media reports “Favorite American Idol gets booted” – no viewer stops to question how they got booted and why they were labeled as favorites in the first place. People made mistakes grading the SATs. People made mistakes keeping track of Presidential election votes. And at the end of the day, 31 million Americans trust a TV show to keep a record of ~31 million (more or less) votes.
Those AI fans that didn’t know this was coming is in denial of how dumb American Idol really is and need to move on so that maybe FOX will take some time to make quality television shows for all those hours wasted on people singing on television.
