Yes. He was treated appallingly, or should I say typically? Or perhaps both words apply. I still feel sorry for his treatment, but less so when I read the elitist rubbish of his preceding post.
See
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rex-pi...b_1224578.html
He'd be right at home with Douglas Preston and the boys and girls at Authors United.
Personally I don't like a lot of the reality TV shows and the like which currently dominate television programming. Yes, it would be very easy to call this lowest common denominator stuff and look down on all of those many people who watch and enjoy these programs from the lofty heights of my own superior taste. Except, of course, that it is not up to me to make that judgement. The reality is that my tastes are neither superior nor inferior. Simply different in this most subjective of areas.
I read what I enjoy reading, and don't need the advice of any self-appointed literati.