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• Wednesday, June 28, 2006 03:21 PM

  gag.....cough....

  I am no fan of this show. There is not one woman on that panel that I find particularly likable or interesting. While I find Star Jones rather distasteful and a prime example of much of the overconsumption that typifies our culture, wasn't she merely speaking the truth? Barbara Walters said that she could say anything about her departure and they would back her up. Well, she said the truth, she got fired. It goes to show how people in positions or power like Barbara Walters are asking others to manipulate the truth to maintain their own image. They were asking her to lie. She chose not to, for that I applaud her. The media is ripe with such efforts to mask truth or bend it in ways that may be advantageous to some but not others. In employer/employee relationships there is a lot of political maneuvering that goes on behind the scenes. It doesn't surprise me at all that The View had such territoriality going on behind the scenes, with that many obnoxious women it was bound to be the case. I am glad their dirty laundry got aired, this kind of thing happens on a macro and micro scale all the time and is rarely discussed.

  —jennalex Read jennalex's other letters
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