{"id":2045,"date":"2002-04-30T14:03:10","date_gmt":"2002-04-30T21:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2002-04-30T14:03:10","modified_gmt":"2002-04-30T21:03:10","slug":"too-much-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2002\/04\/30\/too-much-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Much Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently <i>USA Today<\/i>, NBC&#8217;s <i>Today<\/i> and a number of other media outlets are rushing to fill the Oprah Winfrey-shaped hole in the book club universe.  Among them is the <i>Live With Regis and Kelly<\/i> show, which recently debuted a new segment entitled &#8220;Reading With Ripa.&#8221;  But unlike other so-called &#8220;book clubs,&#8221; Ripa eschews the pompous and pretentious in favor of pure, unadulterated crap.<\/p>\n<p>How do I know all this?  Because my friend Jerry just dropped me a line to point out some great quotations in  <a href='http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/columns\/media-mix.htm'>this article<\/a> about Ripa&#8217;s book selection philosophy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I hate books that make me feel stupid, which I guess knocks off 50% of all books out there,&#8221; Ripa quipped after her show Monday. &#8220;People like escapist programming and escapist works of literature. There&#8217;s too much reality in the world today. If I want to read something with meaning, I&#8217;ll read a newspaper. But when I read a book, I want it to be fun, meaning I don&#8217;t want it to better me in some way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ripa used her own method to pick [the first book featured on the segment]. &#8220;I always judge a book by its cover, and with this one, I thought, &#8216;This looks interesting.&#8217; &#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Honesty rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently USA Today, NBC&#8217;s Today and a number of other media outlets are rushing to fill the Oprah Winfrey-shaped hole in the book club universe. Among them is the Live With Regis and Kelly show, which recently debuted a new segment entitled &#8220;Reading With Ripa.&#8221; But unlike other so-called &#8220;book clubs,&#8221; Ripa eschews the pompous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}