Thursday, June 18, 2009

Our Two Cents on "Jon & Kate Plus Eight"



If a right-thinking person needs clear evidence our culture is heading to an all-time low, we present Jon & Kate Plus 8 as the smoking gun.

How sick can the audience be? Are we just a culture of voyeurs?

The program is yet another example of exploitation reality television following the day-to-day lives of a contentious couple, Jon and Kate Gosselin, headed toward “Splitsville” with eight children’s lives in the balance who are awkwardly hoarded into being part of the show. Could this be a child labor law abuse?

Regardless, sleazeballs, commercial or private, should be accountable and pay for their behavior. They're raking in enough ad revenue on this fiasco.

It’s carrier is the TLC network. TLC!!! Wasn’t that supposed to be “The Learning Channel?” Exactly what is the lesson to be learned here?

If this is supposed to be “reality,” what does one make of all the posturing for the cameras?

This genre of television way over the line of common decency, but it will surely be outdone when Nadja Suleman, the hated Octomom gets her time on the tube in the near future.

This leaves right-minded people thinking what is worse, that a television network would devise just below-the-belt programming or that there is a huge audience that can’t get enough of this garbage?

Shame on all of them.

Oh, the series has a website….woo-hoo….Jon and Kate have blogs.

Who’s watching the children?

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