Elton John says the voting on a recent American Idol<\/i> was “incredibly racist<\/a>” because three black female performers received low scores. The New York Post<\/i> reported it was deluged with calls complaining that the voting was racially motivated. (The Post is owned by News Corp., which also owns Fox TV.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Why are viewers calling the Post<\/i> to complain about a TV program? Is the Post<\/i> involved in the production or promotion of the program? Even though the two entities are both part of the same corporate body, it strikes me as odd that people would think to call a newspaper to complain about the results in a reality TV series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Elton John says the voting on a recent American Idol was “incredibly racist” because three black female performers received low scores. I’ve only watched a few minutes of American Idol ever, and I haven’t see any of these performers. So I can’t comment on this issue other than to note that I thought this was […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI’ve only watched a few minutes of American Idol<\/i> ever, and I haven’t see any of these performers. So I can’t comment on this issue other than to note that I thought this was a subjective contest. At any rate, I’m somewhat confused by this graf in the article:<\/p>\n