‘American Idol’ Learns Democracy Can Be Messy
EmailABC’s Tom Johnson from NY:
The television juggernaut ‘American Idol’ is bending its own rules. If you watched last night you know what I’m talking about. Perhaps you too felt a twinge when Ryan Seacrest and Simon Cowell explained that no longer would the true and complete decision making power rest in the hands of the American people. From this point forward the judges will have one "save" up their sleeve. When America votes a contestant off, the judges will huddle and decide whether to keep them on.
Democracy can be messy. America knows that. Remember Bush v. Gore, the chad debacle and the Supreme Court saing to Florida: no recount?
The list of examples is long. In 2006 the U.S. supported free elections in the Palestinian Parliament. Then Hamas – an organization linked to terror – won. Ah, yes. Democracy is messy.
‘American Idol’ has now learned it too. Think about some of the great ‘idols’ that were voted off early…Jennifer Hudson, Chris Daughtry. The program knows that loosing a talent prematurely hurts the show. So, the solution? The judges will have their say when America gets it wrong.
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Not only that democracy is mess, most of the time its good for nothing. People have too much democracy which has no limit and done in a brutal way!
Posted by: RS | March 12, 2009, 4:09 pm 4:09 pm
Idle is a show that proves if an electorate doesn’t know enough about what they are voting for (ie:performance/vocal talent) the results are random and many times wrong.
The Noz theory on our democracy states that if the people who were allowed to vote in the early period of the USA weren’t limited, the democracy would have failed.
This same dynamic may be in play in Palestine and Iraq right now.
In other words sometimes it’s good for democracy if all of the Monkeys aren’t allowed to vote.
Posted by: Noz | March 13, 2009, 8:39 am 8:39 am