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The campaign below came across a local e-list. My reply follows:
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Mr. Leslie Moonves
CBS Television City 7800 W Beverly Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90036 (323)575-2345 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Mr. Moonves,
It is egregious that rural people should be made the butt of a situation
comedy putting them in an urban environment. Their plight is largely at the
expense of a food system geared for the benefit of the urban consumer (please
read "The Unsettling of America" by rural agrarian, Wendell Berry).
I'd suggest you rather put affluent urban folks in a situation comedy
putting them in a rural environment. That might teach the
nation!
_______________________________________________________________________ Barry Lia \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ Seattle WA ******************
The Center for Rural Strategies, based in Whitesburg, KY, is appealing for nationwide help in stopping a proposed CBS Television program, "Real Beverly Hillbillies," that demeans rural people. Details on their campaign are available on the Center's website:
>>>> CBS plans to take a real family from rural America and put them
on
display in a Beverly Hills mansion as part of a new reality-based program. The producers of the so-called Real Beverly Hillbillies are looking for a low-income, multigenerational family from a rural area to be the real-life cast. They want a family with limited education and minimal exposure to travel. The joke is that this family won't know how to live with
money,
servants, modern appliances, prepared food, and other conveniences of 21st century life. But lots of folks aren't laughing. Because CBS's show will ridicule
and
mock people based on stereotypes and economic status. You can help stop CBS and show the network that deriding rural
people
for the sake of corporate profit is wrong. |
