It's that time of year when all the music channels play back-to-back "All Time Greatest Love Songs".
Apparently "we" vote for these televisual compilations, but to be honest, does anyone really know of anyone who actually voted?
TV 'delights' such as X-Brother, Dancing on Stars, Big Factor and Strictly Dull in the Jungle have all proudly proclaimed their own indivdual winners as "the viewers choice". But are they? Are they really??
Personally, I know of one person who voted once (C'mon Bubble - you can do it). Hardly constitutes the masses, does it?
It's a bit like the National Lottery. How many people actually know somebody who's won a small fortune? I don't mean "My mate's grandmother's best friend's next door neighbour's vetinary nurse's first cousin twice removed" kind of knowing. I mean actual face to face knowing.
I won seventy-four quid once. Does that count as a "small fortune"?
Methinks I have sussed out The Great British Phone Voting Swindle". Methinks the TV Companies that make these programmes 'invent' phone polls that more or less mirror what the popular press report each week. "Jedward In Quit Storm Unless They Gets Proper Recognition" proclaims The Sun. TV Company reads this and keeps them in for another week. See how it works?
I suppose nobody gets hurt (if you discount mental anguish at occasionally stumbling over such shows whilst searching for half-decent TV programmes), and nobody is actually parting with money on non-existent phone calls, but please stop saying the results are "what the public want". They ain't - they're what the TV Companies want.
Oh. And it's a toss-up between "Angels" and "I'd Do Anything For Love" for the Number 1 spot on the Love Songs thingy.
Somehow, it always is.
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