So I was perusing my beloved A.V. Club when I saw, in the introduction to a piece on Ed TV (a second-rate Truman Show, if you ask me), when I came across this:
While channel-surfing a few days back, I encountered the surreal sight of an E! Entertainment News Special devoted to the ongoing national crisis that is the disintegration of Jon and Kate Gosselin’s marriage. The mouth-breathing sentient-mannequin-type hosting the special adopted a stern, concerned look she hoped would be mistaken for journalistic gravitas as she reported on the latest breaking news on the tortured couple behind Jon & Kate Plus 8. A rough patch in the marriage of a pair of reality stars on a second-rate basic-cable channel was being treated as the entertainment-news equivalent of the Cuban Missile Crisis, only more important, since children were involved. Oh, won’t someone think of the children!
And a bit further down:
I have never watched an episode of Jon & Kate Plus 8. My only exposure to it comes via clips on The Soup.
*I won’t make a big thing of this unless it gets me extra page views or a job with the A.V. Club. Otherwise, I call shenanigans!
