We Get the Journalists We Deserve

Apparently, someone got voted off on American Idol and someone named Robin Givhan, writing at the Washington Post, isn't happy.

We Get the Idols We Deserve
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In Daughtry, America had the opportunity to choose distinctiveness, confidence and cool. Instead, it chose bland and boring. Blech and blech.
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Yow. Easy there. I wanted the woman with the bathroom clip to win American Inventor, but I'm not getting all America's-Taste-Is-Bad on the world. Or suggesting that it wouldn't have made a difference if the country had voted for Kerry. Givhan ends her piece...

As so often is the case, the quality of the candidates makes it hard to go to the polls.