ABC’s misleading and wrong promo for the Academy Awards

Though the subject matter is highly disturbing, I truly enjoy and commend the show American Crime which airs at 10 P.M. Eastern time on ABC for bringing these issues to the forefront.

While going from the harsh reality of the show to the inane commercials and network promos is both weird (a Disney ad with a little kid seeing animals juxtaposed with what can happen to children in a world of bullying texts and other negatives) and annoying (they are non stop), I only took real exception to ABC’s misleading Academy Awards promo.

They call the awards’ races wide open and they are not. In fact the two best actor categories have never had such aggregate favorites.

They will get a big audience for the apples/oranges contest in any case so to promote wide open award races is worse than misleading. It is dishonest.