Puppies or Kittens?

Vanity Fair's Q&A is interesting journalism to me. Most of the writing about celebrities today is tabloid and decidedly superficial. This Q&A doesn't challenge Ellen in any way, and I am not sure that is good journalism. I find it so interesting, that in the US where there is this HUGE obsession with training gay and lesbian people to be straight or to at least just shut up about it, Ellen gets a free pass, even in the press!

I mean, it's just weird. I can find out what Lindsay Lohan ate and then purged last night for dinner, but there is NO DIRT on Ellen. Don't get me wrong, I like Ellen. Just like everyone else does. So I had to ask myself ... do I really want to know what Ellen's cellulite looks like? Do I want to know that she used to mainline heroin when she was in college? Not really. I like to like Ellen, and I guess everyone else does too.

I don't watch much daytime tv but I have seen Ellen's show a couple of times, and she interviews her guests just like Vanity Fair interviewed her. "Do you like puppies?" is the hardest hitting question she puts to people. Anyone who needs some good PR just has to have their agent get them on the Ellen show. Hmm. Maybe we could get Dalton McGuinty some face time.