By John Ruane
Having worked in journalism for 31 years and public relations for 20, this entire Kim Kardashian divorce fiasco looks like a bad soap opera that has been scripted by some Hollywood publicity people working with producers from the E! Network.
I believe they had this entire thing scripted from beginning to end and right now, we don’t know what the end will be. Kim Kardashian is supposed to be a reality star, but me-thinks she is faking reality with the creation of this soap opera, docu-drama.
Ironic, eh?
If you Google “Kardashian divorce,” you can read the copy that is being reported by the various gossip media outlets, including the Daily Mail, Hollyscoop, Us Magazine, Huffington Post and regretfully, CNN.
On Friday, they each carried the same statement, the same language, provided to them by the Kardashian publicity agents. Welcome to the wonderful world of the prepared statement. As of Friday, NBC, FOX, ABC and CBS had not picked it up. I was hoping they would maintain their journalistic integrity and dismiss it. For the most part, they have relegated it to news blogs on their respective websites.
Today, the story is Kim Kardashian flew to Minnesota to meet with her husband, Kris Humphries, and the pastor who married them, supposedly to bring closure to this whole charade.
I hope the pastor has the good sense to ask, “So Kim, regarding your wedding vows, the “until death do you part” bit, did you have your fingers crossed, or what?”
The entertainment and gossip reporters are going to continue report what is fed to them, because the access is not available and this is their beat.
But the Kardashian clan had better be ready for some serious criticism, because if all of this is scripted, they will be taking shots to their pretty little chins for some time to come.
I hope they have that scenario in their scripts. My guess is they do.
If they are creamed in the press, they will become the victims. And their fans will rise up to support them.
Watch, it will happen.
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John Ruane is an author and president/CEO of Ruane Communications in Chicago. |