If you listen closely, you can hear the voice of evil
On the surface, this cringe-inducing announcement just sounds like yet another example of the sort of marketing logic that underpins reality TV these days. Pop culture fused with news headlines:
The gossip apocalypse has arrived: Jon Gosselin and Nadya Suleman will be going on a date.
The “Jon & Kate Plus 8″ star has reportedly agreed to appear in a cheesy new reality show in which he’ll date Octomom Nadya Suleman, former “Cheaters” producer Bobby Goldstein told In Touch Weekly.
“I heard that Nadya has an insatiable desire to spend time with Jon and to put their families together,” Goldstein said. “And I had the idea that this could be a very entertaining fiasco.”
Pay not attention to the fact that at the center of just such a fiasco would be no less than sixteen young children whose lives would be screwed even by touching the event horizon of such a “gossip apocalypse.” To actually get caught up in it would destroy them, ruining their lives probably forever. One wouldn’t be surprised if some of said kids eventually ended up suicidal, for all the damage their irresponsible and feckless parents seem bent on visiting upon them.
Selfish, selfish, selfish…and the producers are no better.
But hey, whoever let mere children stand in the way of a tabloid writer’s dream and a license to print money, however ill-gotten it may be.
Update: The date was called off, apparently, after Jon took the advice of his “spiritual advisor.”
Well…whatever stops the date from going through, I guess.
