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"America's Got Talent..." or should we really call it "The Gong Show on Steroids?"
When looking at the incredible amount of reality television available to us we really have to get pickier with what we choose to support and watch. "America's Got Talent" is an attempt to take the old talent show and bulk it up to create a contest worth 1,000,000. The problem with this is that the program has no real rules.

Talent is subjective and we all realize this when watching the first 2 seasons of this show. The show allows people with talents to try and win big and make it big. Who are we kidding? Would a plate spinner really win over an 8 year old who sings like Mariah Carey? Would a bird caller win over a Great Magician. The answer so sorely no and it is so obvious that the show itself becomes a parody of all reality shows.

Let's face facts, these shows are set up to ensure there are as many bad performances as good ones. This poses the question that out of the hundreds of thousands of people that try out for the show, these are the best? Now I know the producers have stated that they try to even out the acts with talent and oddities, but what does that say to the performers who did not make it because an old man who plays the saw and nose flute gets in.

These shows play on the talent and the peopl with no talent. Sadly, we watch these shows more for the ones with no talent. I will be the first to laugh at that old man playing the nose flute, but to him it is an artform that maybe shouldn't be critized as crap.

Judging is also a parody of reality shows.

You have the Hasselhoff, who is the ex action TV star and of course German Pop Sensation...Alright, you are a judge of talent.

Sharon Osborne, wife of Ozzy, Reality Show Queen and failed talk show host. She is lovely and has been Ozzy's manager forever and he is still going...CLEAR...

Piers Morgan, pompus, arrogant, wanker. All these words are printed on his resume. He is like a Simon Cowell without any of the pleasantries.

Finally the host, Jerry Springer. Now correct me if I am wrong, but the talent he has looked at in the past really relates to street corners and stripjoints. How does this give him the skills to host this program? In season 2 he actually put me to sleep with his complete lack of personality.

I am sure that Season 3 will be a hit and that many viewers will watch. I will not be one of them as even I have limits to what I hope Reality is.

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