American Idol - I have no qualms in a person being told they're bad...

[Deja Q]

But there comes a point that transcends just due criticism and pure spiteful attacking.

The doped-up, microcephalic cretin who wrote the article at the following link
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,245264,00.html
is mixing "tough love" with "uncivilized, uncouth trolling".

There ARE gracious ways to say someone isn't doing good, without having to sob croc tears in a melodramatic display of disingenuous sincerity. "Sorry, but I don't think you're good in this field." Is that so difficult to say?! Even "You don't have what it takes, so go away!" is positively polite compared to the depths A.I. has descended to.

The animal writing for FOX in that article doesn't understand the difference between a civilized let-down and vicious brutality. And he supports it. And, as with how many other things, it's dragging down FOX even more. So much the better, FOX has very little credibility left. Maybe they ought to find a new day job.

[Deja Q]

1. Addendum:

On A.I. right now, this 28 year old from Tennessee just dissed his ex-wife royally.

Hmmm... civility is contagious. So is the antithesis to civility. Gotta be careful with the latter, especially when you can't make the cut.

He obviously lost and Simon was amazingly polite (not OTT and only slightly worse than even the most un-PC thing Gene Rayburn told a contestant who said something dumb on 'Match Game'), but the discourse was hilarious... if not uncouth because nobody on Match Game called their ex a ((BEEP)) on national TV... it just seems weird. And if it is true that previous generations' tv has turned our generation to outdo the previous one in terms of un-PC crudity, I will have to re-evaluate my own self.

If all this is truly based on reality, our society itself is in a sick state.

That or I just need to get a life.

Or maybe I'll call my ex a ((BEEP)) on national television. :eyes: