Absurdity Check: Pamela Sitt

Seattle Times staff reporter Pamela Sitt has this absurd things to say in a recent article:

After last week's frenzy over La Toya London's untimely exit on Fox's "American Idol," order was restored last night with Jasmine Trias saying aloha.

Further on the article she says:

Fans complain that they can't get through the phone lines to vote — the result of local phone lines not equipped to handle a spike in call volume.

Read the full absurd article

Absurdity Check

This is not the first and I expect not the last absurd article about American Idol voting. Her claims are not only absurd, they are outrageous. Here's why:

• Phone lines, unlike Sitt, are not biased. They're jammed as much when the "right vote" (another absurd term being spread by journalists like her)is cast as when the "wrong" one is.
  
• Fans complain. Really? She should qualify that as fans that cannot accept that majority of other fans don't agree with their choices. Because after all, those who voted for the other contestants are also fans of the show.
  
• She would like us to believe that when La Toya was voted off there was chaos and when Jasmine was sent home there was order. Wow. She might as well stamp a "sour and loyal La Toya fan" on her forehead.
  

I don't have a problem with the fans of other contestants expressing their support for their favorite. But for them to spread lies and presenting them as facts in that support is way over the top. And for articles like that of Pitt's to ever see the light of day in respectable papers is a bit dispiriting.