Bill Carter of the New York Times just wrote this article about the strength of "American Idol" in the television market.
His question is whether or not it's alright for a single media to have so much power. After all other networks have completely changed their programming in order to avoid being squashed by this giant.
It is a pertinent question because the show now runs three times a week for a total of five hours and other networks can no longer schedule their hit shows around it like they have in the past.
I don't watch "American Idol" but I've seen it a few times and I don't really understand why 30 million people would watch it three times a week.
In general I believe in Social Darwinism when it comes to this kind of thing. But I also recognize when that things can get out of hand and there are points when the government needs to step in and disregard laissez-faire.
This is not one of those times.
While Carter brings up some good points, the situation is not nearly as scary as he makes it out to be.
It's a show about people singing, it's not 1984.
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