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Old 14-10-2008, 13:55
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And he's absolutely right to do so. It's easy to write him off as a bitter ex-winner who didn't make the big time but he's right to say the show is "bear baiting" - you've only got to look at the disgraceful way in which Emma Chawner (sp?) and her family were treated, with the sig tune to The Flumps playing as they waddled into the auditions.

Thirty years ago, this kind of "bully TV" would not have been tolerated. Indeed, the career of TV chef Fanny Cradock came to an abrupt end in 1976 when she dared to criticise the menu of a Devon housewife who won a cookery competition she was involved with. Fast forward to 2008 and it seems you can't make a TV show without having a laugh at the expense of the participants.

The problem is there are now too many young people working in television with their "meeja" degrees; it's reasonable to say many endured bullying at school and now they're making the nation's TV these same people are probably using their work to get back at everyone for the hell they suffered. And Simon Cowell is the worst kind of parasite, feeding off his discoveries and spitting them out when they don't make him enough money.
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Old 14-10-2008, 14:08
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And he's absolutely right to do so. It's easy to write him off as a bitter ex-winner who didn't make the big time but he's right to say the show is "bear baiting" - you've only got to look at the disgraceful way in which Emma Chawner (sp?) and her family were treated, with the sig tune to The Flumps playing as they waddled into the auditions.

Thirty years ago, this kind of "bully TV" would not have been tolerated. Indeed, the career of TV chef Fanny Cradock came to an abrupt end in 1976 when she dared to criticise the menu of a Devon housewife who won a cookery competition she was involved with. Fast forward to 2008 and it seems you can't make a TV show without having a laugh at the expense of the participants.

The problem is there are now too many young people working in television with their "meeja" degrees; it's reasonable to say many endured bullying at school and now they're making the nation's TV these same people are probably using their work to get back at everyone for the hell they suffered. And Simon Cowell is the worst kind of parasite, feeding off his discoveries and spitting them out when they don't make him enough money.
It is isn't it.

Anyway the way things pan out are strange that you'll get people laughing at the auditions but then people don't like a favourite being criticised later on.

It's a popularity contest
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Old 14-10-2008, 15:15
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Old 14-10-2008, 15:56
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It is isn't it.

Anyway the way things pan out are strange that you'll get people laughing at the auditions but then people don't like a favourite being criticised later on.

It's a popularity contest
It sure is.
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