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A few more Kate thoughts…
All rightie, we seem have touched a nerve or two here…
My last few posts about Kate Gosselin and a listing of her “worst moments” as gathered on a national news/entertainment site have been getting some really thoughtful, interesting comments… Feel free to keep ‘em coming, too.
Meanwhile — and I hasten to add that I have not watched the show — a few thoughts occur to me from reading through the many comments from readers.
Namely:
— Whether she’s a good parent or not, or whether she’s a nice person or not, I mostly feel sorry for her children.
— I ask myself whether somebody who was a good, caring parent would subject young children to the rigors of a “reality show” anyway…
— Will the therapists and counselors who are some day called upon to help these poor kids have to recuse themselves if they watched the show? I don’t know what the standards are on such a thing…
— What, exactly, is the reality on any “reality show” anymore?
— If you are willing to treat somebody poorly on camera, how might you treat them in private? I mean, don’t most people behave better in public, or try to?
— There is a scientific principle I read about once that says any phenomenon is changed or altered merely by the observation of it; that is, if you watch something, the very watching affects it. I’m not certain I have that exactly right, but it does seem to be the case here. Would the family be happier and better off if they’d never been “discovered”?
— Speaking of which, d’ya think the producers of the show assumed that the Gosselins would end up divorcing, and worked that into their plans for the show? Seems like it, to me…
Just a few random thoughts … What are yours?
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August 6, 2009 6:27 PM | Link to this
Watching prepared/scripted/designed “reality” shows are a “hoot” if you watch them knowing the above. I prefer truth, not planned falseness, but it’s good to get a boost of lies watching this armageddon, to let you know that lies are mandatory now. Who was Hitlers movie maker?…Reisenthal? Now there’s a propagandist!!!!! Kate’s video handlers love the cheapness, psychological depravity, and shallowness of their subject (Kate). They just haven’t secured the quailty of Hitlers “MGM”…but I think that was the purpose. Welcome to “the vast wasteland” of T.V….lowering standards/selling out/being a “hooker”/defending the indefensable…is what it’s all about. Kate is beautiful, sexy…but I still can’t get over the thought of her leaning in my car window, at a corner stop light, asking me “you wanna’ party, sailor?