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	<title><![CDATA[American Idol, Sanjaya Malakar, and the Postmodern Condition]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-blagg/american-idol-sanjaya-mal_b_45000.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>All kidding aside, I happen to believe that Sanjaya Malakar will go down in TV history as the single most important personality ever to emerge from the <em>American Idol</em> phenomenon. Not because he's funny, not because he's cute, and not because he can't sing. Sanjaya will be remembered not for who he is, but for what he represents - the inevitable subversion of an increasingly destructive institution in the pop culture landscape.</p>

<p><em>American Idol</em> isn't "jumping the shark" this season, it...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:47:00-04:00</date_published>
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