Junior Eurovision Ignored By Western Europe

Last night saw the 2008 "Junior Eurovision Song Contest". This site and most of the Eurovision fan community have never embraced the event as it always seemed

(a) too cute
(b) a cheap off-season cash-in
(c) rather too near the Minipops for comfort

However for the first few years it did garner a bit of interest due to the novelty factor. By 2008 it has unfortunately got completely embraced by the televoting disrepute that's making the whole Eurovision franchise stink like a dead kipper. So much so that just two Western European countries even bothered to enter, and you guessed, it was those two faithful puppies Belgium and the Netherlands, who would propably turn up at the opening of an envelope. And to no-ones surprise, except the Benelux self-delusion experts, they finished near the foot of the scoreboard.

The mass boycott of Junior Eurovision hopefully might have an impact on the European Broadcasting Union. We can but hope.

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