'GMA' on 'More to Love?' No Wonder Sawyer Wants Out

If you want to know why Diane Sawyer wanted to jump from "Good Morning America" to "World News Tonight," look no further than the completely inane segment that the ABC morning program devoted on Tuesday to the "trend" of overweight people in reality shows -- focusing entirely on the Fox dating show "More to Love."

A few problems here: Nobody really watched the show. The show was merely an attempt to do a plus-sized version of "The Bachelor," by the producer of "The Bachelor." And while they found someone from a fat-acceptance group to complain about the series, there was no controversy to speak of, no heat, not much of anything.

Of course, there are several other dieting-related shows about the overweight, like "Ruby" and "The Biggest Loser," but those are about fat people trying to become less fat. Besides, one suspects the network wasn't eager to plug the latter -- an NBC series -- on the night that it's premiering. So they went with "More to Love," like this is burning issue now?

In other words, some "GMA" producer stumbled across the show and thought this was "news," or at least irresistible to the morning audience -- "Hey, struggling with obesity, and reality TV! Win-win!"

Sawyer gamely threw in a comment about all the discrimination that the overweight have to face, but inside, it sure felt like she was thinking, "A little while longer and I'm done with this BS! Woo-hoo!"

Or maybe I'm projecting.