jeffbase34

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/rea...how-is-rigged/


I thought this was interesting. This dude is claiming the show is rigged, votes are not counted, and producers decide who is the winner.

I think the dude is just an attention whore. AI's longevity comes from the unpredictability of the show which makes it exciting. It would be pointless to try to fake unpredictability.

If record sales are the motive, why did Chris Daughtry get the boot, and a blues soul man win the thing? Daughtry is still top of the charts, and Taylor Hicks has fallen to indie label obscurity.

Groucho

at the name Ju'Not.

Dr. Henry Jones, Jr.

He must have an album coming out soon.

Goat3001

I think American Idol should be judged just like every other Karaoke Contest.... by audience applause.

fujishig

He has no proof that the votes are not counted, his main complaint is that they influence the outcome and that he wasn't picked for the wildcard round even though the judges gave him good marks because he was a troublemaker. Of course they're going to influence the votes to get to their final 12 or 13, there have always been cases where people have had no screen time on the audition shows at all, and are supposed to beat out others that have had a ton of face time.

I don't see the shock here.

The Edit King

With all the teenie-bopper-girls redialing at light speed, it's a wonder how anyone who really deserves it can actually win. I can't count how many times decent folks were cut because of how they say, 'America Voted'.

What a pile of BULLCORN!

America didn't vote! Teenie Twaters with nothing better to do speed-dialed repeatedly.

The Bus

This is surprising how?

orangecrush

How can we continue as a society if the integrity of the foundation of our system is in question?

The Edit King

Untied we stand, Divided we fall!

al_bundy

Sanjaya lost, that's all the proof we need

Brian Shannon

He reached that conclusion AFTER being a contestant?

As the Bus said, not suprising in the least. One of the most absurd shows ever conceived, unless you happen to be raking in the $$$$ from the lemmings who believe.

Mopower

Doesn't this invalidate the idea that it's rigged? The producers really thought that a fat grey haired loved by grandmas type would sell better than a young good looking guy with a powerful rock voice? Really? Can I be a producer on American Idol then?

Groucho

The producers deliberately backwards-rigged that season just to discredit the rumors.

Mopower

Oh well I still don't buy it. They must of pulled the ol switcheroo when Fantasia won as well.

AGuyNamedMike

durr.

All these shows are rigged for maximum sensationalism to boost ratings. Sort of like the news media.

Draven

Who actually cares if it's rigged or not? I produce television for a living and I don't believe for one second that it's as straight up "the audience has voted" as they say it is.

Goat3001

I don't even think that we have the technology to count text message votes. I mean, who's coutning them? It's obviously not some uber computer (we're far off on that technology) so I'm guessing it's just some guy in a room. Yeah.. that seems likely

My guess is that cell phone providers are giving a truck load of money to Paula Abdul (we know she's the one that REALLY runs things) to get teens to pay a ton of money for text messages.

hal9000

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

It's a TV show... of course it's rigged. Anybody that thinks these types of shows or any reality show for that matter isn't scripted or predetermined is well a _______! I have a friend who currently writes for Survivor. He started out as a writers assistant on Road Rules way back in the 90's. It isn't necessarily a scam, it's done to keep it entertaining otherwise no one would watch.

jeffbase34

So exactly what does he write or script on Survivor? I remember Kentucky Joe from Australia talking about how real Survivor was.

Goat3001

It's almost like reverse writing. I think the writers go through all the footage and write out what the best story will be from week to week and then the show is edited around that.

These guys are taped pretty much all day so there needs to be a group of people that funnel through all the crap to get to the stuff that will interest people.

Heat

From a yahoo article on this story:

Deftones

Problem is we don't have proof that they are since Fox/AI won't open up the voting counts for people to see.

UAIOE

Am I the only one floored at this revelation?

ENDContra

Isnt the outcome irrelevant? Everyone seems to get a contract regardless. But yeah, no crap its rigged...could have told you that 7 years ago.

Charlie Goose

I doubt the votes are tampered with, but of course the producers edit the show to favor certain contestants. Especially the earlier rounds.