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   From: allan@noemail.co.uk   
      
   "greentop"  wrote in message   
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   >> It is precisely because the industry wants to perpetuate the fantasy   
   >> that being anti-establisment is cool that people like Sanjaya are   
   >> being voted for, thanks to propaganda that the members of the herd are   
   >> not smart enough to notice. I have studied this very basic problem   
   >> long and hard. This is an issue that does not help the real artists   
   >> with talent, and it may well cause a backlash, but that backlash will   
   >> probably not be enough to get American Idol off the air, because   
   >> people who say it should go off the air will be seen as being pro-   
   >> musical establishment. This is a classical example of how to co-opt   
   >> the membership of the opposition. It will not cause American Idol to   
   >> go away, it will just help perpetuate the myth of the American Dream   
   >> that someone with no talent or style can rise to the top of the heap,   
   >> when it is critical discernment that people should be using.   
   >>   
   > I don't think those who are part of this 'movement' really want American   
   > Idol to 'go away'. It's more of a statement that the show and it's   
   > process....sucks donkey balls. And It's very embarassing to Simon which is   
   > fun.   
      
   As long as folk keep watching he won't be too bothered, and of course it has   
   all happened before anyway. Several years ago in the X-Factor in the UK a   
   guy called Chico got to the latter stages of the comepition. Couldn't sing   
   any better than Sanjaya but the public kept voting for him. Simon Cowell did   
   the usual head in his hands stuff! I've watched American Idol for the first   
   time this year and have been struck by the judges. There 'seems' to be a   
   friction between Simon and Paula. Yet on the British show, when she's on as   
   she's not regularly on the panel, they don't say a bad word to each other.   
   I'd always thought the friction between the X-Factor panel judges, which is   
   more intense than the US version, was mostly phoney but mabye Simon and   
   Paula's is too.   
      
      
      
   Allan   
      
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