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Has America gone insane? Season six for American Idol has caused us to ask some fundamental questions about the reality televisi

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问题     Has America gone insane? Season six for American Idol has caused us to ask some fundamental questions about the reality television phenomenon. Show judge Simon Cowell repeatedly chides(斥责) contestants", This is a singing competition. But is it really? When talented singers such as Gina Glocksen are voted off in favor of a tone-deaf Sanjaya Malakar, with his trainwreck performances, the question is whether Idol is really a singing competition, or something altogether different.
    Although Sanjaya was only in the middle of the pack for last week’s vote, on the Web he was the most searched for Idol contestant of the season, garnering(获得) more than twice the volume of searches than his nearest rival (not counting the continuing quests for racy photos of Antonella Barba, who is no longer in the competition).
    Theories abound as to Sanjaya’s staying power on the show, from suggestions of a flood of offshore voting to the texting power of pre-pubescent girls. There is one theory that can actually be quantified by Internet data: shock-jock Howard Stern’s campaigning for show-spoiler site Vote for the Worst" to support voting for the entertaining contestants who the producers would hate to see win on American Idol, according to site creator Dave Della Terza, who teaches a course in reality television at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Ill.
    While Votefortheworst.com is small compared to the official American Idol site, the fact that it gets nearly a fifth as many online visits gives it the strength to sway a vote. Vote for the Worst is gaining strength, with over a 50% growth since last season, which can be attributed largely to the self-proclaimed "King of All Media".
    But what does the American public think of the unlikely Idol star? Of all of the searches for Sanjaya over the last four weeks, 41% were searching on variations of his name", Sanjaya, or" Sanjaya Malakar, and various misspellings. At least 2.9% searched for information on Sanjaya’s sister, who didn’t make the cut on the show. The next most popular search topic regarded questions about Sanjaya’s sexual orientation, with searches such as "Sanjaya Malakar gay", "Sanjaya gay" and" is Sanjaya gay? What’s missing are searches related to Sanjaya’s musical selection or talent.
    The Sanjaya phenomenon, while amusing, highlights the biggest challenge to reality shows that depend on a public vote for show outcome. It’s not a singing contest, or even a popularity contest; it’s become a race to see who can make the biggest spectacle. In that context, Sanjaya has the advantage.
选项 A、a TV play series.
B、a TV sitcom.
C、a TV entertaining program.
D、a singing contest.
答案C
解析 为推理判断题。文章第一段提到"Season six"；"television phenomenon"和"Show judge"，因此可以判断出American Idol是娱乐电视节目。D项歌唱竞赛的说法仅来自于裁判，但第一段明显对这种说法提出质疑。A，B两项说的分别是电视连续剧和情景喜剧，由文章判断，它们都是不合理的，应排除。
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