I just got this in my e-mail
I'm torn because as most of you know from the tolerance discussion, I think cracking jokes about peopele's differences is not cool.
On the otherhand, I'm sure the contestants are informed of exactly what type of show it is and what's going to happen. If they still choose to participate then that's their business.
It does speak about the type of characters CBS has employed, but if you look at any of the networks programming, this show is no diffreent than the myriad of reality programs out there right now (ahem Joe Millionaire!!!).
Okay, I just read the line about them having to be "limited in education and have not traveled alot." That IS pretty fucked up!
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| The Center for Rural Strategies begins a campaign January 7, to take on the CBS television network and their decision to produce the Real Beverly Hillbillies Show. We want you to join us. Follow this link to our web site. In this reality series CBS will take a poor, rural family and put them on display in a Beverly Hills mansion. They have conducted what the press has called a "hick hunt" for this family in the Deep South, the agricultural Midwest, and the Appalachian mountains. The network's requirements are that the family should have limited education and have experienced only minimal travel. The joke is that they will not know how to live with wealth, servants, modern appliances, and prepared food. Audiences are to watch and laugh at the poor family's clumsiness and their unworldly ways. We find the series offensive. We want you to join us. We believe this program will degrade rural America and reinforce harmful stereotypes of rural people and culture. On Tuesday, January 7, we will begin paid advertisements in the New York Times and the Washington Post confronting CBS executives on this matter. The ad will run in selected regional papers in the following weeks. In conjunction with the ad, our web site (www.ruralstrategies.org) discusses realities of rural life in America and material that protests the skewed depiction CBS plans to portray. The site allows you to send a message to CBS and add your name to our campaign to stop the series. Visit our web site to learn more about the campaign and what you can do to stop the show. So far we have been encouraged by the growing number of people opposed to this show. If you would like to be involved, or if you wish to suggest people we should contact, please let us know by emailing ruralreal@ruralstrategies.org. Sincerely, Dee Davis, President The Center for Rural Strategies |
On the otherhand, I'm sure the contestants are informed of exactly what type of show it is and what's going to happen. If they still choose to participate then that's their business.
It does speak about the type of characters CBS has employed, but if you look at any of the networks programming, this show is no diffreent than the myriad of reality programs out there right now (ahem Joe Millionaire!!!).
Okay, I just read the line about them having to be "limited in education and have not traveled alot." That IS pretty fucked up!
