April 11th, 2007
I’m no fan of the Denton blogpire and I hate New York City. So I don’t particularly care for Gawker since it is both (a) part of the Dentonverse and (b) about New York. Also, I kind of like Jimmy Kimmel, who can make with the funny. But Kimmel’s recent ambush> of Gawker editrix Emily Gould is positively retarded. Evil Beet has an excellent retort:
I lost a lot of respect for Kimmel after watching this. He was in a bad mood, and I suppose he was trying to prove he could do “serious” television, and he really ought to have picked on someone his own size. His points don’t hold up. Celebrities these days know what celebrity means. You went to those auditions, Jimmy. Walked there with your own damn feet. You pitched those shows. You wanted to be a big star. You wanted people to write about you. People write about you now, Jimmy. Take the good with the bad, asshole. The Man Show did those candid segments that fucked with real people’s lives. I bet they didn’t all think it was as funny as you did. Oh, and remember how you left your wife of 14 years, with whom you had two children, for Sarah Silverman? Just checking, Mister Morality. Stick to sports and drinking beer and ogling women, Jimmy.
Whatever. The real shame here is that CNN is letting a game-show host anchor what’s supposed to be a news show. (Not for the first times.) Several years back, when some other TV head moved from sports casting to “serious news,” a friend journalist friend noted that the medium of television supercedes all of the imaginary subcategories we invent for it: In other words, TV news and TV gameshows have more in common than do, say, TV news and newspapers.
We can’t expect someone like Jimmy Kimmel to remember that; but we should.
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