 In response to criticism, the producers considered tweaking the voting format for the next season.Online critics from major news sources like Brian Mansfield of "USA Today", Dalton Ross of "Entertainment Weekly", Andrea Reiher of Zap2it, and Tom Gliatto of "People" criticized the judges for being too nice, not being honest enough, offering hardly any constructive criticism towards the contestants, and for not giving any guidance and direction for the viewers/voters in terms of why they should or should not be voting for someone.Executive producer Ken Warwick responded to these criticisms and said, "The truth of the matter is these kids are very good and I wouldn't influence the judges to say anything they don't absolutely believe ...