Re: Seriously???
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Without vote totals, it makes it considerably more difficult to handicap the actual value of a contestant, and therefore the producers can assign any value they want (by playing around with performance order, song selection, judge's comments, etc.)
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this idol machine can and certainly does manipulate enough to change some margins. however, as we all know, the actual vote counts are 100% legit as policed by standards and practices. it simply would be EV- to play with the vote. they would love to get another kelly clarkston that would line their pockets POST-SHOW, but the money being made on this conglomerate is right here in what we see now. the TV broadcast and the ad revenue. the album sales they would get a cut on (for a short period as by contract), dwarves the money they are making now. so they basically don't care who wins as long as people are watching. hence, it will never suffer from vote fraud.
great post btw...
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