Everyone has one!
What’s that super classy saying… “Opinions are like buttholes – everyone has one.” And here is mine.
Let’s chat about Jon & Kate Gosselin, shall we? And what better place to start than with the media.
Oh, the media. The beast that’s out to kill, steal, and destroy. Oh, wait. That’s how the Bible describes the devil. Well, they ARE similar, are they not? The media and the devil?
And what about the “fans” of Jon & Kate? So eager to watch them fail, to watch their marriage crumble, to watch their perfect little world fall apart. I can’t believe all the judgment and hate that’s been circulating regarding this couple. Who really cares whose “fault” it is? There are people who hate Jon and accuse him of THIS. There are people who hate Kate and accuse her of THAT. Dang, people! We don’t even KNOW them! We only get what TLC’s editors allow us to see or what the media would have us believe. Jon and Kate aren’t freaking characters in a TV show. They are REAL PEOPLE. How about a little less condemnation and a little more lifting the couple up in prayer?
My advice to the Gosselins? Cancel the show NOW, get in marriage counseling NOW, and stop talking to the media NOW. I can give you 8 excellent reasons why doing so is imperative.
And a side note to TLC… how dare you continue the show in the name of entertainment? As a child of a broken family, I can tell you, there’s NOTHING entertaining about divorce! Give this family the privacy and support they need and quit exploiting them for ratings!
The gosselins aren’t in a contract. They can cancel the show, but they are choosing not to.
I’m very saddened by the situation, and believe the whole mess can be boiled down to one basic principle.
They don’t understand authority.
The kids don’t respect their parents authority. Kate was never under the umbrella of her husbands authority. And Jon was never under Gods umbrella.
The selfishness, the media problems, all secondary. I guarentee you.
That’s what I came away with, anyway.
That’s a good theory, Leah. You could be very right. Although… that’s based off what the show lets us see. We’re only shown a very small part of their big picture. Know what I mean? If my life was filmed, I could be made into either a saint or the worst wife/mother of all time. The power of editing!
AGREED!!! I actually wrote a blog about a half-hour ago on this same subject!!!
I agree, you can spin it many ways.
Think about it though. If you were on a show, and the producers were making things seem worse or different than the reality, what would you do? Demand changes? Quit?
None of those things have happened, so they are either living a life that is NOTHING like what they choose to portray on camera, or what we see is too close to the truth.
I don’t doubt that there is a spin on it. But I doubt it’s a big one.
It’s totally gross and I’d never watch it. I watched 5 minutes of it at my moms house and turned it off. How is it entertaining? It made my stomach turn. The pics of them in the mags at the store… stupid. Her hair… an abomination, but that’s beside the point. How is it entertaining to watch so much disfunction? Not contrived disfunction, which I do love, but real disfunction. Would I love to have the disintegration of my family life displayed for the world to see? Would I love for America to have seen what my childhood relationship or lack there of was like with my parents? Hell no! That’s private and sacred and for ME!! The whole thing sucks and I hate that show. Yes, you hit a chord and my hormones are off the chart today. Sorry.
I have to say that I have been a fan of the show since it began and I do watch it every Monday night. I think that it’s completely sad and heartbreaking what is going on now with their family. They both say they do the show to “provide” for their family but in my opinion if they really want to provide for them they would forget about the $$$ and “celebrity” status that they are receiving from the show and cancel it for the sake of their family.
Just to add, I got annoyed when Jon starts spouting off that ‘there are more important things that people in America should be concerned with such as troops dying in Iraq’ but yet in a previous interview he’s telling people to watch the show to see what their big announcement is! Of course there are bigger concerns but for the past 10 years Americans have become obsessed with realty tv…and the Gosselins have continued to promote and make millions off of their show for the past 5 years!!! Such a hypocrite in my opinion. Ok…I’m done now!
We just need to each live our own life. Doing the best we can for those we are sharing it with. Do things a little more Godly everyday (well, most days anyway).
Television in and of itself is a discusting distraction from the beautiful life and precious moments we have right before us. It is slipping away too quicky.
To think that anyone would subject their life, family, children to something as shallow and demeaning as a reality television show for something as silly as money is pretty horrifying.
Prayer is always good, but should be about the only thing any of us concern ourselfs in relation to this family. I suggest no one waste anymore time watching, talking about or dwelling on this topic or others like it.
Turn off the TV and make your own life one worth living!
I think it is horrifying all the way around-that Americans deem this to be entertainment much less news, that she is portrayed a bad Mom, he as the horrible cheating Dad…If we were all edited by others we could be any monster imaginable.
They put the dollar signs before everything important. They dug their own grave, and shallow as it has certianly become. Their biggest mistake was not having God first, their marriage second and their family third. The alter of materialism is where they chose to worship and they are reaping what they have sown.
I pray that they can find some sort of peace with each other, maybe even reconcile. I doubt it though…too many cameras rolling.
Lori, you are right on the money. It breaks my heart that these two will not enter into counseling and get back to what matters-their family. Not TLC, NOT the freebies, NO tabloids! I do find it difficult to stomach the thought of them continuing the show, filming Jon and Kate with the children seperately. Are we as a society to ‘accept’ this because divorce is the ‘norm’??
I did read, however, that TLC has halted the production and the next ‘new’ episode will not air until August 3rd and only 6 of the 40 shows have been filmed.
What I think is sad is that my kids genuinely loved their show and now they are learning a little too much about relationships & divorce from it. We didn’t let them watch the first one of this season and we watched it together this week. I don’t think “they” realize how many kids watch it and how what they are now showing is effecting that audience.
I feel very sorry for them regardless of the situation they have chosen – it’s always sad to see a marriage and a family dissolve. If they hadn’t ended up having marriage problems I am sure America would have continued to watch and no one would be saying how horrible they are to be exploiting their children. Not many people said that for the past 5 seasons…
I am sure my kids will continue to watch the reruns from the past seasons and enjoy them. I compare it to me growing up watching “Full House” over and over…
I’m with Crystal. Turn off the TV. Tune out the media. Live your life.
We don’t really watch TV and therefore don’t have cable/dish…subsequently I have never seen the show, but obviously you can’t miss the headlines and internet stories about them. I think it was really sad what happened to that family (through their own actions or not). They should have ended it when they started having problems and focused on their marriage and children. It seemed fame and fortune was their ultimate priority. But as you said, Lori, we don’t know them (their hearts or what really happened)…only what the editors/media provided to us. Still they should have taken control of their lives…maybe their marriage could have been salvaged and those 8 children would still have a mommy and daddy who loved each other under one roof.
How do you feel now that Kate has decided to go on as “Kate plus Eight?”
Ugh… the poor family. I avoid them when their faces/names pop up in the media. So sad.