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04/12/2007: "Shut them up"
Song of the Day: Hooverphonic - Sometimes
Can we just set something straight? This whole Sanjaya business is pissing me off, and not for the reasons you'd suspect. The thing about him? Someone holding on every week even though they're obviously the least talented person on the show? It's so nothing new. Season 3, we had Jon Stevens making it to the top 6, beating out Jennifer Hudson. Season 4, there was good old Scott Savol of the creepy eyes who freaked everyone out, and yet made it to the top 5. Last year, even Bucky made it to the top 8, while "Chicken Little" stuck around for too long for the same reason Sanjaya has - he's cute and very young and all the little tweens are willing to sit there for two hours text messaging votes in every week.
Does the media ever mention this in their multitude of stories about the "Sanjaya Phenomenon?" Do they ever say, "Yo, this isn't actually anything NEW, this pretty much happens every season, but our profession is a big joke so we have to keep up appearances"? Do they ever bring up Nikki McKibbin, who made it to the top 3 of season 1 despite being hated by everyone? No, of course not, because that would be honest reporting.
So now you have people who have never watched the show sitting around talking about it like they know what's going on, and people honestly think that the Vote For The Worst site is making a difference, and the stupid journalists are all grinning about how they've Cracked A Big Story.
My issue here is with the journalists, since this stupid making-mountains-out-of-flat-ground trick of theirs is nothing new (the "OMG Harriet Meirs isn't a judge and Bush still nominated her for the Supreme Court what a stupid president ha ha ha" bit was one of my "favorite" offenders of recent years). Will any of them who writes another, "Oh my god, Sanjaya is still there!" article this week mention that Haley, who was kicked off, really deserved to go, and actually did way worse than Sanjaya this week? Of course not.
Seriously now, how about reporting some REAL news.
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I feel the same way about any "entertainment" story making the top news day after day. Anna Nicoles Smith - This is news? Isn't there still a war going on or something? But, the news wouldn't keep reporting it if people didn't keep tuning in.Babs, Friday, April 13th
God bless Anna Nicole and Sanjaya. What a beautiful post. Thank you for writing this.j, Saturday, May 12th