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July 15th, 2009, 2:22pm
http://www.baltimoresun2.com/blogs/zontv/header_image.jpgI was just thinking Monday night how much I did not miss Jon & Kate since it has been on hiatus and how I ought to ask readers if they felt the same. And then, I saw the pictures of Jon Gosselin, the perpetual adolescent slacker boy, on a boat on the Riviera with his 22-year-old girlfriend, Hailey Glassman. And now I'm wondering how people who watched the show regularly feel about that.
I'm wondering, because those viewers -- you, my dear readers -- are the very folks who put Jon on the Riviera in one the greatest TV hustles in a long time. The more you watched, the richer he and Kate and TLC got -- even as they were lying through their teeth on air and off about what was going on and playing us for fools.
Now, as you and your family worry about the soaring unemployment rate and your job, Jon is on the Riviera, Kate is in a mini-mansion, and TLC made more money in half a season than most cable channels of its size will make in the next three years. And you're still worried about the Gosselin kids! In God and television we do trust.
I hit the wall this season with the episode that featured Jon on the ski slopes out West. TLC characterized the trip as Jon making the trek to lead a group of developmentally challenged youngsters on a ski outing. But the tabloids had him nailed in photos as being on a ski holiday with his girlfriend. I thought, "OK, this kind of lying and exploitation are beneath contempt -- these people are dead to me." I urged readers to just say no -- to quit watching the show. (By the way, let's give credit where credit is due: Without the reporting of US and People magazines, TLC probably would have been able to run this scam a lot longer.)
I have my doubts if the show really will come back on Aug. 3 as TLC orginally announced. But if it does, and I put nothing past the brazeness of TLC, do you think that now you will might stop watching? Come on already. Here's an idea: Spend the time you would spend with the Gosselins with your own family. Or, how about this: Spend the hour on Monday nights that you gave to the Gosselins and TLC doing something related to your job to make yourself a better employe, so that maybe you will be able to survive the next wave of cuts at your workplace. I know, the economy is so bad that saving your job might be impossible. But making the effort is better than giving the hour to these TV hustlers so that they can get rich.
Really, Jon and Kate and even their kids do not need your concern -- they are set for life thanks to the way mom and pop Gosselin and TLC have exploited us. I don't know how else to say it. Do you think Jon was worrying about you as he skimmed over the cool blue waters in a yacht? No, he is still mouthing the phony self-absorbed psycho-babble about being vulnerable and in pain that TLC has been feeding him and Kate for the last year -- even as he talks about coming back to the "work" of filming the 34 more episodes he and Kate and TLC have signed for.
Here's what he told People magazine about his new life and the images of him with his new yachting buddy: "What began as friendship has grown into something more. I know that my decision to appear publicly with Hailey this weekend will be scrutinized, but I hope that people can see I'm a regular guy who is a going through a very difficult time in life and wants to move forward."
A "regular guy who is going though a very difficult time in life and wants to move forward." If that doesn't make you gag in this summer of fear and rising unemployment, I can't help you. Keep watching TLC if it comes back in August with more of this outrageous trash -- you're just the kind of viewer they're counting on.
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/zontv/2009/07/jon_kate_gosselin_riviera_hail.html
I'm wondering, because those viewers -- you, my dear readers -- are the very folks who put Jon on the Riviera in one the greatest TV hustles in a long time. The more you watched, the richer he and Kate and TLC got -- even as they were lying through their teeth on air and off about what was going on and playing us for fools.
Now, as you and your family worry about the soaring unemployment rate and your job, Jon is on the Riviera, Kate is in a mini-mansion, and TLC made more money in half a season than most cable channels of its size will make in the next three years. And you're still worried about the Gosselin kids! In God and television we do trust.
I hit the wall this season with the episode that featured Jon on the ski slopes out West. TLC characterized the trip as Jon making the trek to lead a group of developmentally challenged youngsters on a ski outing. But the tabloids had him nailed in photos as being on a ski holiday with his girlfriend. I thought, "OK, this kind of lying and exploitation are beneath contempt -- these people are dead to me." I urged readers to just say no -- to quit watching the show. (By the way, let's give credit where credit is due: Without the reporting of US and People magazines, TLC probably would have been able to run this scam a lot longer.)
I have my doubts if the show really will come back on Aug. 3 as TLC orginally announced. But if it does, and I put nothing past the brazeness of TLC, do you think that now you will might stop watching? Come on already. Here's an idea: Spend the time you would spend with the Gosselins with your own family. Or, how about this: Spend the hour on Monday nights that you gave to the Gosselins and TLC doing something related to your job to make yourself a better employe, so that maybe you will be able to survive the next wave of cuts at your workplace. I know, the economy is so bad that saving your job might be impossible. But making the effort is better than giving the hour to these TV hustlers so that they can get rich.
Really, Jon and Kate and even their kids do not need your concern -- they are set for life thanks to the way mom and pop Gosselin and TLC have exploited us. I don't know how else to say it. Do you think Jon was worrying about you as he skimmed over the cool blue waters in a yacht? No, he is still mouthing the phony self-absorbed psycho-babble about being vulnerable and in pain that TLC has been feeding him and Kate for the last year -- even as he talks about coming back to the "work" of filming the 34 more episodes he and Kate and TLC have signed for.
Here's what he told People magazine about his new life and the images of him with his new yachting buddy: "What began as friendship has grown into something more. I know that my decision to appear publicly with Hailey this weekend will be scrutinized, but I hope that people can see I'm a regular guy who is a going through a very difficult time in life and wants to move forward."
A "regular guy who is going though a very difficult time in life and wants to move forward." If that doesn't make you gag in this summer of fear and rising unemployment, I can't help you. Keep watching TLC if it comes back in August with more of this outrageous trash -- you're just the kind of viewer they're counting on.
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/zontv/2009/07/jon_kate_gosselin_riviera_hail.html