Why is that guy bitching about RSOM? It's a contest, if you win you get money, you get some exposure, and some of the winners have actually gone on to get jobs in the field. I don't see the problem.
I wouldn't compare it to American Idol because the artists/writers that submit stories seem to get a lot of leeway to do things their way, as opposed to the mindless puppets that Idol molds its contestants into. Josh Lesnick sounds like a bitter douchebag to me.
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