TBH, no!  Jobs are hard to come by these days.  I would run to the red tops if there was any money in doing so but if not, I'd stay quiet. Let's be honest, it's not the General Election nor is it likely to get anyone killed, and given the fixes and scams that have already been exposed on prime time BBC and ITV shows, only the gullible spend serious money on such things.

I absolutely am,

I will put on my super Issy outfit and save everyone. I would bring back sunday tea with 3 different sorts of jam .

I think a single member of the team would fairly quickly be quoshed and quietened.
I mean, it's not as though it is something important like national security.
I think some of the press would like to use inside information but a single lone whistle-blower may not get very far.
I believe after the Jeremy Kyle show was described by a judge as "bear-baiting", an ex-member of the production team divulged inside secrets to the press, which seemed pretty damaging and showed the production team in a bad light. Yet the programme still runs.
But I would like a programme insider to reveal naughtiness and bad practice. I don't like being conned.

It's still fraud on a national scale though, and it can't be denied C4 'fixed' public opinion with their edits of the HL shows and X Factor has already 'fixed' its final line-up before the damn thing even began. Just because it's not the biggest scandal in the universe doesn't mean they should be left unchallenged imo.

Not if they had evidence they wouldn't, and they would be stupid to approach any paper without it.

If you wanna be a sucker that's your problem.

Take the pay cheque 

In all seriousness I think I would have to say something.
I hate to think of people being duped.
I have spoken out enough times in my job in RL so I do not think this would be any different,

Sometimes doing the right thing is not always the easiest thing.

So far Isadora and slimfern are the only people in this thread showing anything remotely resembling a conscience 

Sure Prom, but you asked for opinions and I'm giving you an honest human frailty opinion of what I'd do in the real world rather than bigging myself up as an upright moral crusader safe in the knowledge that I'm never going to be in that situation. 

Realistically, I wouldn't risk my job and livelihood over such trivial things. I know it makes me a lesser person but we've all got a living to make.  I've lied on behalf of my employers to customers before and I guess most of us have if we're honest - particularly managers to their juniors. 

If people want to throw their money at Simon Cowell and Endemol and their contrived shows that's up to them but given how many high profile cases there have been over fixes, I think they're gullible in doing so.

Maybe, but if Simon Cowell was abducting and selling X Factor wannabes as sex slaves to gangsters, I'd do the right thing!

There's a lot to admire in such honesty too

I'm not bigging myself up - I have been in similar situations -not on such a large scale but I have had the courage of my convictions.

Doesn't make me the better person - its just how I am .

There are only a handful of people who handle the voting side of things and I would imagine there is probably a confidentiality clause in theirs (and most of the production team's) contracts. Plus, if anyone did speak out and be named as opposed to being called a 'source', they'd probably trash their name in the media world anyway and would find it extremely difficult to get work again on a high profile production. Added to that - the pay can be extremely lucrative in some parts so would it be worth ruining your career and financial prospects?

I think at least 40% of the viewing public know or at least have an idea that some of it is not entirely left to the lap of the Gods. X Factor is a well oiled machine and one person screaming to the red tops is not gonna trash a 16million viewing average, and that's where the production company make their money.

Yeah, I'd scream and holler if only to quash that vile little Louis Walsh once and for all.
But then again, I wouldn't want to work in that part of the industry in the first place.

The only people signing on are the whistleblowers;  it figures......

If people are stupid enough to vote, I say let them.

I hate that little weasel with a burning vengeance 

It is indeed fraud, but what is often forgotten is that it's not just about misleading the voting public (as if that wasn't bad enough): there's also the betting.
For years, it was an open secret that many Endemol employees considered Betfair to be their pension scheme, using their inside knowledge of voting predictions and/or editing to clean up. Remember all those times (especially in the last few years) where there would be a dramatic change in the betting odds on Friday?

The recent Pakistani cricket scandal was a huge story. Is there really that much difference here just because it's Reality TV?

(Oh, and before anyone makes a comment about not having sympathy for the bookies: the thing about Betfair is that it's a betting exchange - they were actually taking money from other gamblers...)

Well there you are then.  Consider it a favour to society.

I'm under embargo.....I'll spill the beans in January

I reckon the likes of Facebook and Twitter have put all the voting on these reality shows unfairly out of the hands of the general public. It showed with some of the iffy evictions on the last BB, and look how FB fixed the outcome of last years Xmas No 1..

I never said you were, I'm giving my opinion of what I'd do rather than bigging myself up as people can tend (only tend) to do in such matters.  I'm not making a criticism of an individual reply, I have no doubt you would speak out in such a scenario, but I wouldn't.  I'd like to think I would but if I'm honest, I probably wouldn't.  I'm just being honest about what I'd do in that situation. 

I've spoken out before to my detriment on matters of injustice and inequality when I've felt justified but I doubt I would in this scenario.

Fair enough - I think that there are times to be quiet and times to speak out . I have kept quiet cou ntless times as well.

Sorry MMD, can't agree there at all.  Facebook didn't really fix the outcome of last year's Xmas no.1.  After all, Facebook is just a social network site.  People on Facebook used it as a medium to promote a product - just like Simon Cowell does with his ITV show and tabloid press stories.  Facebook in its own right has no influence over record sales and compiling record sales charts.

Obvious fraud, yes.


A little bit of manipulation, probably not. 

No worries Isadora, no offence taken.  I don't take these things too seriously.  My replies on here are usually intended in good humour even if they might read as a bit strident at times. 

Rage Against the Machine support was set up on FB to stop Cowell getting his act to No1...
You need to get out more.

It was promoted on FB just as the X Factor winners song was all over the TV and radio, people still had to buy it.  FB didn't do that!



Maybe it's you who should get out more

To answer the OP though i wouldn't bother telling....if people are stupid enough to waste their money lining the pockets of TV companies, let them.  Having said that though, generally, no matter what slant is put on them or who is pushed forward, the right person normally wins the reality shows.

I would not like it but in all honesty I dont think I would kick up a fuss as said above if I bit off the hand that feeds me would I be cutting off my nose to spite my face,nobody in any job is indespensible and work is hard to come by, having said that if I worked in Hospital/Care Home and things were not as they should be a would not hesitate to blow the whistle.

Facebook as a company didn't 'fix' anything It was used as a promotional platform in the same way as TV, radio and newspapers are, and it was the consumer who didn't want another guaranteed X factor Christmas number 1. I wouldn't have thought billionaire Facebook owner, Mark Zuckerberg could give 2 shites who was number 1 in the UK or the hype surrounding the million or so people who pushed the campaign considering his site has 500 million active users.

Just saw these ^^^