Award for Generating Cash

The AAP has just designated ABC's "The View " the winner of this year's Association of American Publishers award for their apparent passion for reading and books.

...does anyone else see what's wrong with that, or am I the only one ?

"The View" has more to do with the love of reading and books, than I do trying to change the engine of an F-16 fighter plane.
If you have ever seen "The View" (post Meredith Viera who is a journalist), and one of their apparent "discussions" of literature, anybody would see that they come up to the same level as a box of crayons reading Faulkner. This is the same show that has Joy Behar admitting that she knows nothing about the Bible and the stories it contains - considering that the Bible is one of the most read books in the world, I question why the AAP would even give the award to a bunch of loud-mouthed women, who get their information from their own sub-par intellect.
And then it hit me - Money.
A book "reviewed" on the show generates popularity of that title, and boosts sales for the author.
Hence, the award. How did I come to this conclusion ? Look who was the previous year's winner - Oprah Winfrey.
When Oprah says a book is good, it flies off the shelves. But lets not get too hasty with Oprah's choices - she did choose James Frey's book, and has now since promoted "The Secret" (a book I will talk about later...) Even when she promoted Faulkner's works it seemed fake. Faulkner had existed, and was a genius in his writing - we didn't need Oprah telling us all of that.

But we can't blame the AAP for giving out the award, after all more money for authors is a good thing since it helps them make a living and promotes reading. But I can't possibly respect their decision, especially when it has someone as abrassive and obnoxiously uneducated as Rosie O'Donnell trying to talk about Hemingway to me....