This is the world we live in

A world where bad plastic singers rank higher than athletes who sweat their entire lives trying to achieve a greater goal.

Airing a two-hour expanded edition of American Idol on Wednesday night (Feb. 22), Fox more than tripled NBC's Winter Olympics ratings head-to-head from 8-10 p.m., producing a 13.4 rating over the Olympics' 4.0 in the 18-49 demo, according to Nielsen Media Research data. Idol also outrated the Olympics in the 18-34 demo (12.3 to 2.6) by 392 percent and drew more than twice the number of viewers --31.4 million to 14.8 million.

Shameful.