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Topic History of: Should Simon Cowell be Knighted?
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Author	Message
JK2006	Excellent column in yesterday's Times by Andrew Billen backing Simon all the way.
Prunella Minge	ITV was strong and healthy when Grade and his rivals were around. ITV is now on its knees. Historically, it's not a great comparison when judging the degree of influence of Cowell. Now it's like someone boarding a ghost ship and declaring himself captain. And it's typical but sad that the likes of Denis Forman - who was influential AND talented AND cultured AND relatively humble - just gets ignored when such a tradition is discussed. Cowell most impresses people with no memory, no sense of history, no awareness of the broad range of culture and no great sense of curiosity. It's enough to make John Stuart Mill throw up all over Jeremy Bentham's push-pin table.
Bunk morland	Simon is no better or worse a human being than the vast majority of those are knighted. He is a clever, ambitious ,occasionally mendacious but ruthlessly efficent tv entrepeneur. Lord Grade,David Frost, Simon Dee and Micky Most ALL had some effect on their time in television but only Lew Grade came close to Cowell in influence and power.
Prunella Minge	The next step is surely for his hairdresser to get an award. That's the '11' on the Nigel Tufnell 'world gone mad' meter.
In The Know	For "Services to his own wallet" ?