http://blogs.crikey.com.au/purepoison/2009/06/12/the-gordon-ramsay-media-circus/

This photograph to me sums up the whole Gordon Ramsay/ Tracy Grimshaw “controversy”:

Ramsay and the media all running around pretending to chase each other, everyone having a good time.

More than one commentator has suggested that the whole thing smacks of confected outrage in a cynical attempt to promote Ramsay and his programs on Channel Nine, and many people have rolled their eyes at the way that even Kevin Rudd has stopped mangling colloquialisms long enough to have his say on the matter. Now Tracy Grimshaw has been offered $50,000 to do a raunchy shoot for Zoo magazine.

So what do you reckon? Is the “controversy” real or confected? Do people have a right to feel cynical about it? Is Channel Nine condemning Ramsay on the one hand, yet backing him on the other by continuing to run his shows?