This is WAY to good let pass away~

Word Game Wednesday is sitting in the dichotomy of the “here to soon” and in the “nick of time” because
Kate Gosselin is to appear on the Jay Leno show this week.

http://www.thejaylenoshow.com/episode-guide/

If you are so inclined, please feel free to write the interview between Jay and Kate and your fellow Musers will vote for the funniest on this thread, out of the top three “interviews” Moon chooses, from the whole.

The interview does not have to be long.

The winner’s “prizes” to be revealed at the end of the thread and voting.

In the interim, a hearty BWAAA………… BWAAAAHAAAAA to the most fun bits to come!

(PS~ to all the trolls out there, over the last going on year and a half I cared not what Kate did as long as her kids were not financially supporting her ~ in other words, rely on her own talents whatever the hell they may be – or not. Leave the kids out of it – I highly doubt she can do this, but I am willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. One more “woe is me and my kid’s are breaking down because they miss the camera crew, or even if the “Superman wanna be mother Kate” resorts to tears on national TV yet again, all bets are off!)

Have at it! Not just Kate Gosselin but all of the “fascinating” people.

And while you are at it, feel free to share who you felt was one of the most fascinating people of 2009 – and it doesn’t have to be a public figure.

One of the most fascinating people I met in 2009 was Pat – Dirty Disher.

The term child labor is a paradox, for when labor begins . . . the child ceases to be -
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise

Law Professor Dayna B. Royal (Cumberland School of Law at Samford Univeristy) has written an excellent brief/article on the need for protection of children in “reality” TV which will be published this spring in the Akron Law Review.  It is lengthy but interesting, not to mention poignant.

It can be accessed via this link, so grab a cup of warm coffee, tea or other wintry beverage and enjoy.  I would love to know your thoughts on her work.

http://musingsfromthemoon.com/JK_Plus_the_State_Royal_Legal_Brief.pdf

A hearty THANK YOU to Muser Bev Okin-Larkin who has been in communications with Professor Royal and who has obtain explicit permission from Professor Royal to share the Professor’s paper with us.

A hearty THANK YOU as well to the Professor. Excellent and important work!

And the end is here! Tonight marks TLC’s last attempt (at least for a while) to squeeze every last cent it can from the phenomenon that is “Jon and Kate Plus Eight”. A seemingly innocent “documentary” about a couple from Pennsylvania with twins and sextuplets.

It was anything but innocent, or a documentary for that matter, as we have seen and will see further as the lawsuit of TLC against Jon Gosselin and their corporation (the children in essence) and Jon’s countersuit plays out.

But as for the show? It is O.V.E.R. and I highly doubt that we will see those 8 innocent children again on TV in this type of genre. TLC would be stupid to try and resurrect that show. It will never bring them the money that it did at one time and I am not too sure that the (slimy) sponsors would find it lucrative enough either.

TLC has shown to the lay person how repulsive they truly are and how they would stop at nothing to capitalize on a family’s demise. The parents are just as much to blame, no doubt, but as “The Learning Channel” they certainly have given pop culture a lesson in how to highlight a family’s break-up and capitalize on it to the highest degree.

Cha-Ching!

I hope they rot in hell.

My questions/letters of long ago and far away last August to the Governor of PA and the PA Labor Department regarding clarification of the PA laws regarding children working in general and children working in entertainment and how they applied to the Gosselin children went unanswered.  I was not surprised.  Now Jon’s attorney is asking those same questions in a countersuit and finally they will BE answered.  It is my hope that through this suit comprehensive laws regarding the use of children in “reality” TV will be defined in that State.  I am appalled, but again not surprised, that this family filmed and was filmed without the proper permits for the children and location.  If you read the PA statutes regarding child labor, they were required.  Actually none of the children should have been allowed to work AT ALL because of their age – well they could have by special permit, but those permits would have drastically reduced the hourly time that they could work, and the duration as well.  So no one bothered to abide by the PA law and decided to keep on breaking it.  Now that the shite has hit the fan, it will all come out.  While TLC left it to the parents to get the permits per their contract, I agree with Attorney Hostage (love that name!)  that the onus was really in the hands of  Discovery/TLC to make sure that they, as a television conglomerate, did their filming legally.  Quite frankly, I think that both Jon and Kate and TLC decided together to forgo the work permits because they both knew what type of restrictions that would result from it and tried to hide behind the idea that this show was a documentary.  Well, that if true (which it is not and Jon has proved from his Affidavit), that still does not relieve them of the legal, not to mention ethical, burden of making sure when it came to minor children, that they followed the law regarding the children’s labor.

I ultimately believe that TLC will settle with Jon, though I do hope that the suit goes as far as it can to completely expose TLC and their practices.  Children are not chattel to be bought and sold to the highest bidder and it is about time that someone pays again for this practice.  There are child labor laws enacted for a REASON.  To protect children from people that used them as cheap labor and to be profited off of.

It is the end of Jon and Kate Plus Eight and hopefully the beginning of the end of children in “reality” TV – or at the very least, the beginning of comprehensive laws to protect said kids while their parents are happily selling their childhoods.

The END.

As always Preesi, we thank you for sharing your scans with us:)

Funnies at Preesi’s (please feel free to add to the titles) !

Creepies at LisaK’s (Reality without Apologies)!

And Katadaronline continues to throw Jon under the bus (No surprise there!)

http://preesi.lefora.com/forum/category/my-case-against-kate-gosselin/page1/

Thanks Preesi, you Rock

Here is your new “All Things Gosselin” thread for at least the beginning of the week.

Jon Gosselin and Levi Johnston are sharing the “stage” on “The Insider” this week and Katedaronline is “reporting” Jon and his attorney – Heller (he hasn’t gone any where!) will countersue TLC (I was pretty sure that was going to happen no matter what).

Have at it!

There is a blog that is written by an licensed practicing attorney that is following the Gosselin divorce and legal saga. Actually I didn’t even know about it until a week or so ago, but I am happy that I found it. Anyhoo, I commented on one of their entries today to ask what a “hold out” corporation was as Jon and Kate’s corporation is being sued in addition to Jon Gosselin in the TLC suit.

The site owner answered my question in a new entry that was just put up on the “Divorce, Gosslin Style” blog.

There is also an earlier entry that is interesting as well that addressed why TLC won’t win their lawsuit against Jon.

I thank the “Divorce, Gosselin Style” blog for answering my question so quickly, blogging from a legal perspective in many of their entries and being a general advocate (as we all are) for the Gosselin children.   Like Musers, this blog also brings to attention the fact that a suit against Jon is also a suit against the Gosselin children.

I look forward to further blog entries from DGS in the future!