One of America's dominant ideologies is the belief that you can make your dreams come true with effort and talent. America's Got Talent has just ended it's fifth season and had the best talents on its show this past year. Millions of Americans watch the show since it first aired in 2006 and continued watching to 2010. So many Americans have watched this talent competition because entertainment is a large industry and is extremely popular. America's Got talent is conducted like a popularity contest rather than the talent show that it claims.
America's Got talent is a competition for anyone to try and use their "talent" and win 10,000 dollars and have a headlining show in Las Vegas. The three judges: Piers Morgan, Sharon Osbourne, and Howie Mandel, travel to big cities through-out America and hold auditions for whoever thinks they have a good enough talent. The acts have 90 seconds to preform and each of the three judges have a button in front of them that they can press when they don't want the act to continue. If the act gets three red X's, their act is immediately stopped. The judges debate if the act should move into the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, the judges can not send the act home and only give advice for if they should stay or go. The viewers at home can vote through their favorite act. Ten of the 24 passed through to the Top 10 round, and four of those acts go to the finale, and in which the American viewers vote the winner of America's Got Talent.
The opinions of the viewers of the show is easily changed by the judging panel. If an act gets a red X, then viewers will most likely believe that the act is not very good and are less likely to vote them through to the next round. As well, if the judges have very good comments for the act, then viewers will be encouraged to vote for that act. For example, Prince Poppycocks final act was buzzed by Piers and got the least amount of votes by the viewers. Sometimes there are acts that are actually not very good, but receive the "sympathy votes". Maybe it's a singing act that has a lung disease. They aren't good singers, but people feel that they deserve it because they work so hard. America's Got Talent seems to be more like a popularity contest, rather than the talent show that it claims to be.
Auditions, Prince Poppycock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jgXi8bR-6k&feature=related
Semi-finals, Fighting Gravity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSArkjDdx5c&feature=related
Top 4, Prince Poppycock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH5HlvmHGs0
(Prince Poppycock was my favorite act.)
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