Time Warner robots just love "American Idol"
As seen on CNN today:
Of course, because of this week’s Idol Gives Back spectacular (which I didn’t watch, preferring the excitement of a taut baseball game), American Idol won’t actually be down to seven contestants until tonight, a rare Thursday elimination show.
Which reveals that CNN’s home page, or at least the part that promotes corporate publishing sibling Entertainment Weekly’s American Idol coverage, is automated. And every Thursday, up pops a link — decremented by one, there’s a good computer — to the latest outing.
I guess I assumed that the home page of a news website would be edited by humans. But perhaps I’m just a 20th Century guy at heart.
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