X-Factor Fires a Bunch of People – America Shrugs

According to Entertainment Gossip Bitches (Take your pick), everyone in the picture above who isn't Simon Cowell or the black guy (I kid - music producer L.A. Reid) won't be back for the second season of X-Factor, the over-hyped singing competition show pretending like there was no such thing as American Idol before it.

Is anyone truly incensed by this? Back during Cowell and Paula Abdul's judging duties on Idol, there were always rumors, like clockwork, about how Paula was getting fired and how she and Simon were at each other's throats (Ryan Seacrest's too). Such over-thinking on throwing hosts and judges out the door and yet the simplest solution is looking straight in their face, and they either can't see it or won't acknowledge it.

It was stupid to have singing competition shows all year long. As useless as their winners have been (Hasn't been a champion to have a legit career since Carrie Underwood - eight years ago), it was a yearly tradition for people to click on American Idol in January and after crowning a winner in May, take the rest of the year off to cool down and get it out of your system. Nobody wants to see that 12 months a year and especially with Idol without Cowell's venomous, but generally on the money, criticisms, and judged by people who can't afford to be truthful because they still have a PR image to maintain and albums to sell.

Why does Fox think their ratings are down big time this year?