[CounterCounterCulture]

Also... No "Idol Gives Back" this year!

The competition will then continue to march towards crowning a champ -- minus the fund-raising Idol Gives Back event, which has been scrapped for the show's eighth season.

"This is a difficult financial time for everyone globally, so I think the decision made was 'look, let's hold it over until next year and do it then,'"Warwick previously told reporters in explaining the fund-raiser's absence.

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[retrokitten]

Yes, I heard about that! Thank God for small miracles!

[silent_jonny]

"This is a difficult financial time for everyone globally, so I think the decision made was 'look, let's hold it over until next year and do it then,'"Warwick previously told reporters in explaining the fund-raiser's absence.

Uh-huh. I'm sure lower ratings had nothing to do with it.

Hold it over until next year? Why? By that time, there won't be any poor people in the world--President Messiah told me so :)