I was watching this video interview with Levi Johnston, aka the no-longer-future Mr. Bristol Palin. The breakup was mutual, Levi says. He needs to be more "mature" before marriage. (That sounds like it wasn't so mutual, but who knows.)
Then I saw this:
Check Neal Karlinsky's Twitter page. He'll be tweeting some behind-the-scenes details about the interview.
Um, OK. Sure. Why not. I'm curious about Twitter, which is the big thing online these days. All the kids and TV reporters are doing it. (Me too, by the way.) What does Neal have to say...uh, tweet?
"Levi says he takes son Tripp home alone on reg basis w/out Bristol's supervision--borrows her car seat to do so."
"Levi's son Tripp was born in Dec, but only pix he keeps in his pickup truck are ultrasounds--two of them!"
This is news? This was worth traveling to Alaska for? There's nothing else happening in the world?
Now, before someone else says "but you're writing about it!" let me say that yes, I am. And that contributes to the cacophony of caca we sometimes call "the media." I just wonder if maybe it's time to leave Levi and Bristol alone. Seriously, is it really important to talk about this anymore? During the campaign, fine. But now? Is there such a thing as going too far with news coverage, especially when it involves young people?
I guess that's where my frustration comes from. I understand that there is a market for celebrity news, or whatever you want to call this. And the "ambush them with a camera" thing that TMZ has perfected is the way to go. I get it. I don't care for it myself, but lots of people do. But when you have kids, and I still think of Bristol and Levi as "kids", I don't think it's fair to "tweet" what he has in his truck. Who's business is that?
(And before someone says "what about Chris Brown and Rihanna?" I think that's different as well. They're famous for making music, and they benefit from their image, which is heavily marketed, largely to young people, which is a different issue. Bristol is Sarah Palin's daughter, but Levi isn't even related. Leaving both of them alone is probably the way to go.)
What do you think? Is it time to leave "the kids" alone?
(One more thing. Can we please come up with a better name for this than "tweeting"? It sounds really stupid.)
Source: ABC
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