The New York Times broke a story today about how AT&T may have helped Kris Allen win American Idol. Kris beat out Adam Lambert last week and the paper is now saying the AI upset was rigged. It turns out AT&T provided free phones for texting, and some AT&T employees flooded an Arkansas AI party and taught hordes of people how to “power text.” Which, if you aren’t in the know, is sending 10 texts at once.
more Kris and Adam photos after the hop…
However, of course, AT&T is saying this is all silly and they were simply just giving “texting tutorials:”
Officials of Fox Broadcasting declined to discuss the situation. In a statement issued Tuesday, a spokesman for AT&T said, “In Arkansas, we were invited to attend the local watch parties organized by the community. A few local employees brought a small number of demo phones with them and provided texting tutorials to those who were interested.”
Man, people take this American Idol stuff way too seriously.
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