It is all about ratings. If they find an interesting story (the girl whose daughter has a rhetts syndrome) or if it is somebody looking like an idiot (whether they are clueless or intentionally doing it) then AI will find time to air it. Their hopes is that somebody will see somebody that they want to follow (not stalk) or just gain an interest in the show. There are many people who watch the first few weeks of the show just to see the train wreck auditions and I wouldn't be surprised of some of those people kept watching because they saw something that caught their attention.
I watch the auditions, and the only season I fully watched was when Carrie Underwood won. That year there were a few people who I took interest in and I got hooked on the show. (it probably helped that that was the season the NHL was locked out).
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