That's the problem though. All these people are being used.
You've just described pretty much the entire reality TV machine. Parade the freaks, market the ones the public like, suck 'em dry then cover their breakdowns in excrutiating detail.
I guess some entrants may not have realized that this was the deal before entering, but really, it's how reality TV has run for a decade now and celebrity has worked like that for as long as we've had teeth.
And the public love it. Novelty and drama all at once. Sturm, drang and a song.
Susan Boyle is an ordinary middle-aged person. She doesn't chase a media-hyped image. That doesn't make her ugly, that makes her very normal.
Your values seem a little distorted LEE.
They seem very mainstream to me. She's trailed as the moose with the voice of an angel. That's how she presents, and in an environment of plastic prettiness, it really stands out.
Mind you, she should have used a different song and really knocked people's socks off. The performance was a bit one-trick-pony.
