American Idol Corrupted by Howard Stern & Sanjaya Malakar
By Josh Hart
Apr 3, 2007
Here we go again. With American Idol set to air again tonight Sanjaya Malakar, the singer with the toothy grin, meek voice and mop of hair will take to the American Idol stage, sing horriblly and mouth off to American Idol judge Simon Cowell. He will then probably survive yet another round and many believe that it is all thanks to Howard Stern. (The shock jock not the guy hiding out in the Bahamas).
Us Weekly magazine notes that ne would never have thought the crude gabber would have taken such a liking to reality TV, but, as his on-air commentary in recent weeks explains, Stern’s quest to crown Malakar the newest Idol is much more than a passing fad. “We’re corrupting the entire thing,” the host told listeners during his March 29 morning broadcast. “All of us are [ruining] American Idol. It’s so great. The No. 1 show in television and it’s getting ruined.”
Hard to argue that point. The mag adds that the unlikely Idol fan hopped on the Malakar bandwagon after the Web site VoteFortheWorst.com began soliciting votes for the teen, simply because, as the site’s founder, Dave Della Terza tells the New York Times “we want to keep the guy around we think is funny and corny.
“Everyone tries to say we’re crushing dreams with what we’re doing, but we’re trying to help Sanjaya’s dreams,” Della Tarza said. “He wants to be the American Idol too.”
Is Stern really ruining Idol?
Howard Stern Corrupts Idol!
