David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. Dina Lohan: Mommy Dearest
It’s hard to find anyone – outside of Dina Lohan herself, that is – who think it’s a good, or even less than contemptuous, idea for Lohan to star in a projected E! reality series, “Mom-ager” (boy, that just rolls off the tongue, no? even "Momzilla" would work better), in which she bullies her young progeny into becoming stars just like their older sister, Lindsay.
Well, except maybe for the whole flashing one’s privates and entering rehab at age 20 part.
E!, of course, also enabled Anna Nicole Smith, as it presented her frolicking about clearly blotzed on her own train wreck of a reality show. Given the bang-up job Dina’s done raising Lindsay, one can only imagine the fresh horrors awaiting 14-year-old Ali and 11-year-old Cody as Mommy coaches them on proper casting-couch etiquette and hoovering cocaine.
Slate reports that even some E! employees have been siezed with a belated conscience: “(T)his planned show is too much for some E! insiders. ‘People feel like [Lindsay] is going to die—and we're not helping,’ one said.” And appearing on reality shows seems to have done wonders for Tom Sizemore and Danny Bonaduce.
Before dismissing this cynical programming innovation as tawdry and disgusting, however, let’s try to focus on the upside: Hmmm.
You got anything? Me, neither.
Oh, wait; it could save Cody and Ali’s lives: “Mom-ager” will essentially serve as Exhibit A in Child Protective Services’ custody case against Dina. And the backlash against it could also put a definitive end to this dispiritng brand of reality television, and, perhaps, E! in general. And it would allow Keith Olbermann to retire his “Worst Person in the World” trophy, bequeathing the title forever to Dina.
Otherwise, yeah, I guess it is a pretty bad idea.