On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I hate to be cynical, but I would almost now think that because it was > wrong phone numbers, "X Factor" might've been done that on purpose to try > to beat "The Voice," especially since it was known that "The Voice" was > going to be a results show. Don't forget, folks, that the networks closed > up their Standards and Practices departments years ago and the companies > the talent comps hire only police the actual votes, not what the producers > do. Just sayin' (and sooner or later I suspect that we'll have something > like the quiz scandals happen with reality comps). > I've always operated under the theory that unless a reality show hires a PricewaterhouseCooper-level firm to manage the voting process, there's no reason to believe that the shows aren't rigged (note that I'm not saying the shows *are*, but that the decision to have the fox* guard the chicken coop is more than enough doubt for me). That was the one thing I was kind of hoping would come out of the whole Bristol Palin dustup from a few years back: ABC and BBC Worldwide kept saying "Well, nothing looks wrong to us", and I kept waiting for a larger mass of people to come to the logical followup of "Yeah, but you're the one counting the votes." * Pun only lightly intended. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
