The crooked Simon Fuller and Simon Cowell
According to an article online "Britain's Got Talent" runner up, Susan Boyle, lost the competition, because the wrong number to vote for her was displayed on YouTube. Votes that were intended for her, went to her competition. When she placed second, she had a breakdown and was admitted to the Priory clinic in England.
Susan Boyle and Diversity
The man behind the show, Simon Cowell, is also apart of American Idol, a program that on different occasions, displayed the wrong numbers on screen for contestants, causing less popular singers, to place ahead of others.
It's no secret Cowell dislikes Boyle, due to her appearance. He prefers the photogenic and youthful Diversity, who won the competition. He deems them more saleable.
If these reoccurring errors are indeed deliberate, as they appear to be, rigging shows, especially those open to public vote, is fraud and a criminal violation of the law.
In the 60's disc jockey Alan Freed was indicted and imprisoned for "pay for play" payola, which is money received to air the records of artists and record companies that bribed him. A similar situation occurred with game shows in the 1950's. A film was made about it titled "Quiz Show." It too resulted in criminal investigations.
Simon Cowell and co. are playing with fire.
Was Susan Boyle's Britain's Got Talent dream scuppered by wrong phone numbers on YouTube?
Last updated at 5:41 PM on 03rd June 2009 - Clips on YouTube displayed the WRONG telephone voting number for Britain's Got Talent runner-up Susan Boyle, it has emerged.
Hundreds of fans have complained that, within moments of Miss Boyle's performance on Saturday night, YouTube was re-running clips of it carrying the wrong phone voting number for her, but not for two of her closest rivals.
Viewers believe what appeared to be a simple error could have been an attempt to get Miss Boyle's fans to vote for rival acts.
Fans revealed that the last two digits of Miss Boyle's voting number on YouTube had been changed from the correct '08' to either '07' or '09' which were the numbers for dance group Diversity and singer Shaun Smith.
When the final votes were cast, Diversity won with just 4.7 per cent more votes than Miss Boyle, making it possible she lost because of the irregular phone-numbers.
ITV allowed the unofficial clips to remain on YouTube to increase advertising ratings, with more than 100million across the globe logging on to watch Miss Boyle's first performance on the show...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk
The 86th Congress, by then in its first session, quickly saw the political opportunity the scandals offered; in October, 1959, the House Committee on Legislative Oversight, under Representative Oren Harris's chairmanship, began to hold hearings investigating the scandal. Anna Marie "Patty" Duke, then a child actress, testified to having been coached, as did Stempel, Snodgrass, and Hilgemeyer.
But the bombshell dropped on November 2 when Van Doren said to the Committee, "I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception. The fact that I too was very much deceived cannot keep me from being the principal victim of that deception, because I was its principal symbol."
Law and politics
The entire matter was called "a terrible thing to do to the American people" by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.[3] After concluding the Harris Commission investigation, Congress passed a law prohibiting the fixing of quiz shows (and any other form of contest).[4] However, at the time, while the actions may have been disreputable, they were not illegal. As a result, no one went to prison for rigging game shows. The individuals who were prosecuted were charged because of attempts to cover up their actions, either by obstruction of justice or perjury.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiz_show_scandals
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiz_Show
