Stumbling and Mumbling: Caring about the X Factor - The Diigo Meta page

• 17 Dec 10
  

  Todd Suomela

  "“Do clever people care about the X Factor?” asks Matthew Taylor.
  Yes - by definition. The X Factor final got 17 million viewers. Any clever person must be curious about such a significant social phenomenon. "

  television culture talent fundamental-attribution-error fame music pop

  • But then, wasn’t this always so? The fact is that pop music - be the lies of John Lennon or the truth of Johnny Rotten - never did change the world, and was only ever a commodity surrounded by romantic illusion.
    In all this, I suspect, lies the reason why so many affect to dislike the X Factor. They’re shooting the messenger. The X Factor draws attention to some truths we’d rather not know. 

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