Whoopi Goldberg said on a recent episode of The View that she believes American Idol has lead to the “downfall of society.” She told her cohosts, “Once we gave people the ability to judge other people, I think we ran amok with it, and it’s gone out of control. They invited the public to decide who that person was, and I feel once we did that, it began us in a cycle which we have not [escaped].”
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