http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/17426/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/media-let-culture-wars-cloud-american-idol-win <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/colleen-raezler">Colleen Raezler</a> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <div class="field-label-inline"> By</div> <a href="/author/sarah-knoploh">Sarah Knoploh</a> </div> </div> </div> <p >After the winner of “American Idol” is crowned, the appropriate action is to congratulate the newly crowned Idol on his success. Yet on May 21 media focus was clearly elsewhere. That day, reports on all three networks' morning broadcasts, marveled at how Kris Allen beat Adam Lambert and gave unusual attention to contestants who did not win, but are still successful, leaving little doubt that these hosts and reporters believe something wasn't right about Allen's victory.</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/media-let-culture-wars-cloud-american-idol-win" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles MRC Culture Education abc AdamLambert AmericanIdol AndreaCanning cbs ChrisJansing HuffingtonPost KrisAllen LisadeMoraes MaggieRodriguez Newsweek NewYorkTimes RaminSatoodeh SamChampion WashingtonPost Thu, 21 May 2009 04:00:00 +0000 admin 28674 at http://archive2.mrc.org