{"id":390230,"date":"2010-03-04T19:56:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T00:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=95472"},"modified":"2010-03-04T19:56:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T00:56:42","slug":"%e2%80%9camerican-idol%e2%80%9d-stops-contestants-from-connecting-with-fans-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/390230","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAmerican Idol\u201d Stops Contestants From Connecting With Fans Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nProducers of <em>American Idol<\/em> have banned contestants from connecting with fans online Weeks after lifting its long-standing non-disclosure clause by allowing Season 9 finalists to chat with Idol viewers via FOX-approved online accounts with social networking giants &#8212; including MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter &#8212; the talent show is putting the kibosh on the practice. <\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" id=\"Redlasso\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.redlasso.com\/redlasso_player_b1b_deploy.swf\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"embedId=6f908992-c5ef-4530-a400-0a4bee7e0777&#038;pid=undefined\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/player.redlasso.com\/redlasso_player_b1b_deploy.swf\" flashvars=\"embedId=6f908992-c5ef-4530-a400-0a4bee7e0777&#038;pid=undefined\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" name=\"Redlasso\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, every season-nine hopeful sent out a generic tweet, advising fans that<em> &#8220;all my updates from now on will be on our Official &#8216;American Idol&#8217; 9 Contestant Page &#8230; @AI9Contestants.&#8221;<\/em> Each individual Facebook account featured this message: <em>&#8220;Thanks so much for joining my Fan Page! All my updates from now on will be on our Official American Idol 9 Contestant Page, please become a fan there to read all my updates throughout the season!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Too bad! It was nice for Idol to actually come into the 21st century and give fans a chance to chat with the singers that they spend all season vigorously campaigning for. We wonder what brought about the sudden change?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/C6asQl-HjK-L_BGVL5jTq9viEcw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/C6asQl-HjK-L_BGVL5jTq9viEcw\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/C6asQl-HjK-L_BGVL5jTq9viEcw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/C6asQl-HjK-L_BGVL5jTq9viEcw\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Producers of American Idol have banned contestants from connecting with fans online Weeks after lifting its long-standing non-disclosure clause by allowing Season 9 finalists to chat with Idol viewers via FOX-approved online accounts with social networking giants &#8212; including MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter &#8212; the talent show is putting the kibosh on the practice. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}