I just saw that the Duggars will be on Dateline

[missbrooklyn]

Unfortunately, NBC was not nice enough to tell me which day. It's being touted as the first time the family speaks about "THE TRAGEDY". Anyone know what day?

[Austin]

Ack. I wish the mainstream media would stop legitimizing these people.

[Deesire]

Don't know, but if the episode is airing on Valentine's Day, I would guess Dateline would precede it...

[PokaDot]

I saw that they will be on the Today show....not Dateline...

[ceg045]

I saw that they will be on the Today show....not Dateline...

Yeah, that's what I thought I heard as well.

[SamuraiKatz]

Yeah, that's what I thought I heard as well.

The Today Show? Oh please please please don't let them be announcing another pregnancy!

[fluttershies]

Maybe a courtship/engagement announcement?? Marry Jana off to another fundie so she can't escape?

[ceg045]

There wasn't any mention of a special announcement. Just "their first interview since their tragic loss," or similar wording.

[lilwriter85]

I'm not surprised that they are going to be on the Today Show. It will probably be a fluff interview with no tough questions asked.

[flipflop]

What makes me cross is Michelle claims to be a stay at home mom, yet with all these TV appearances and speaking commitments she is clearly a working mother. In fact given how often she travels to speak she is away form home more than most working mum's. It is a blatant lie to day she does not work. The whole TLC TV show is paid work.

[Guest Anonymous]

These interviews burn my butt because they are being paraded around like paragons of virtue and Christian living and not being called out on their harmful cult like lifestyle! :evil:

[Buzzard]

Crap, tomorrow? Prob just hyping their new season?

[marmalade]

Today Show on Tuesday. Certainly to hype the show. They always do this.

Not sure about Dateline; they're not in tonight's lineup.

[Buzzard]

Today Show on Tuesday. Certainly to hype the show. They always do this.

Not sure about Dateline; they're not in tonight's lineup.

Isnt it usually GMA? Did they boot them because they had no "news?"

[PokaDot]

Today Show on Tuesday. Certainly to hype the show. They always do this.

Not sure about Dateline; they're not in tonight's lineup.

Well, I'm kinda glad it isn't tomorrow. I'd hate to think the Duggars would ruin my birthday by spewing hate on it. On the other hand, it kinda sucks that it's on Singles Awareness Day.

Why won't they just go away!!! No Bates, No Duggars, No extremist-fundie families pretending not to be....I'd like that for my birthday.

[missbrooklyn]

Whoops, my bad. Today Show. Duh. Tuesday? Thanks, dear FJer in the know.

[Mais Pourquoi]

Isnt it usually GMA? Did they boot them because they had no "news?"

I don't recall them ever being on GMA. All of the Very Special announcements have been on the Today Show, and their magazine of choice is People.

[GeoBQn]

They were only featured on GMA once, when they were doing a series where their correspondents participated in different reality shows for a week.

[ItISjustme]

Why won't they just go away!!! No Bates, No Duggars, No extremist-fundie families pretending not to be....I'd like that for my birthday.

I'd like that for your bithday too. In fact, I'd like that for every day.

Poka Dot, hope you have a great day.

Edited to be specific.

[Koala]

Ack. I wish the mainstream media would stop legitimizing these people.

Me too. I look forward to my damn Dateline every week and now the damn Duggar's are invading it. Damn it. I refuse to watch. :snooty:

edit to add another damn, because clearly my original post didn't have enough :lol:

[Koala]

What makes me cross is Michelle claims to be a stay at home mom, yet with all these TV appearances and speaking commitments she is clearly a working mother. In fact given how often she travels to speak she is away form home more than most working mum's. It is a blatant lie to day she does not work. The whole TLC TV show is paid work.

Pffttt...she's a stay at home mom and I'm a super model :roll: Michelle Duggar wouldn't know how to mother a child if her life depended on it. Birthing she seems to have down pat - mothering not so much.

[Elle]

*sigh* Every sad event to happen is NOT a tragedy. A woman being stabbed to death is a tragedy. 9-11 was a tragedy. A miscarriage is a sad event. I'm saying this as someone who's lost more babies in utero than I can count on one hand.

[Lillybee]

That is what I was going to say. What happened to the Powell boys is a tragedy, losing your potential 20th in a miscarriage, not so much.

[Koala]

I think that the real tragedy is the way she treats her living children.

[debrand]

The couple will be treated with kid gloves. No one will ask them hard questions. When it comes to religion and faith, reporters are cowards.

A more interesting episode would be one dedicated to Gothardism. Dateline could explain all the strangeness in that cult. Even if they never mentioned Duggars, viewers would make the connection.