Amber Holley: When Hollywood Calls Morals Into Question: A Lesson From the Book of Jon

Sometime last week, I stumbled across a short story describing a man who was being publicly accused of walking -- or, more accurately, sprinting -- down a path of indecency and inappropriateness that offended "social conventions or public morals." The man was specifically condemned for committing no less than three of the Seven Deadly Sins and then breaking a commandment or two, to boot. However, unlike a biblical allegory, there was no indication of the man's proposed countermove. No metaphorical slingshot. Thus, at the end of my read, I asked myself: WWJD? In my story, though, the "J" stands for Jon. Gosselin, to be precise. And the controversy described above refers to a recent lawsuit filed by Discovery Talent Services, LLC, a talent agency which secures the services of individuals who appear in TLC's programming, against Gosselin and his loan-out company, JKIG Inc. Although the complaint alleges that Gosselin breached certain provisions of his contract with the agency by, among ... (link)