The New York Post reports that ABC executives are embarrassed because Diane Sawyer didn't ask Katie Holmes hardball questions during an interview yesterday-- questions brought up by a new biography of Tom Cruise, including an allegation that baby Suri Cruise was (and I am not making this up) the product of Katie Holmes being artificially inseminated by the sperm of late Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.
How the hell is this news? I mean, really-- am I supposed to buy the idea that Diane Sawyer's journalistic credibility is impugned because she didn't ask about this? Katie Holmes is an actress. She married an actor. They had a kid. She's out on the talk show/morning show circuit to promote a movie. That's all.
She doesn't have her finger on a button, she can't order troops to war, she isn't going to do something that triggers an economic meltdown, and where the sperm that created her baby came from is none of anybody's goddamn business. (Though a quick Google image search shows that Suri Cruise looks pretty much exactly like you'd expect a kid to look if you crossed Tom Cruise's DNA with Katie Holmes' DNA.)
Argh. I shouldn't get upset over something so asinine but it just infuriates me that this is the kind of thing that passes for news these days.
