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After all the controversy swirling around the release of the new CBS reality TV show “Kid Nation,” were any of you curious enough to watch Wednesday night’s premiere? If so, what did you think of it? Is it as scandalous as we’ve been led to believe?
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This show promises to be a big yawn. I watched some of the premier out of curiousity because they heavily recruited in homeschool communities – every discussion I saw had even highly interested kids’ parents yelling a resounding “NO WAY” after reading the release of liability forms. I was certain last winter when they were recruiting that this would never get off the ground – They filmed during the school year. The only kids who I can tell would have applied would have been, like stated, those that see this as a vehicle to some sort of media career.
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I don’t watch live television any more.
The show sounded sick. CBS sounds sick these days, even for a “msm” organization.
m.elston’s comments above seem quite sensible.
Child abuse is child abuse, whether it comes from liberals or conservatives.
Name calling is name calling, whether it comes from me or worldmagblog, for that matter. So I have fulfilled my quota of name calling for the day. What’s your quota of name calling for the day?
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Wow. It only took two comments for someone to reply to a television question with “I don’t watch television.”
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Not curious at all. I’ll stick to the new Doctor Who, the only show I would go out of my way to see. Nothing else even remotely interests me, other than some science and history shows.
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Yep, m.elston pretty much said it, Yaaaaaaaawn! Some of my kids watched expecting Lord of the Flies/New Mexico, but it is like any other reality show where they are not really trying to survive, or race, but rather play a game in a picturesque location. Obviously these kids have been told to amp the drama. There is a host so they are not really without adults about. And like all reality shows, they try to get some sort of suspence going, but the thought that there is a camera man getting it all on film reminds you it is far from reality.
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Sounds like a mission trip with cameras.
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If any of the kids get a booboo or cry, it will obviously be a result of George Bush’s failed policies.
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Yawn.
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No way I’ll ever be able to drag myself to watch this show. Just the description makes my eyes wander. Sounds like something tee voed by pedephiles.
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I read about this program and wondered what parent would allow their child to participate in something like this. Have we watched so much television that we forget real people are involved and what they do in front of the screen can affect them in real life?
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#3
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Do you want me to watch a television show today, just for you?
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I won’t watch it.
What I have read about it makes me wonder why any parent would ever think about letting his or her child participate in this.
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The scandal is in the contract that the parents/guardians must sign, releasing CBS from all liability, even death. Every parent or guardian who signed that contract deserves to be tarred and feathered. They’re a disgrace to the institute of family.
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#11
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No, I want you to not tell me how morally superior you are by not watching the medium in question or comment on things that you have no interest or opinion of. Just for me, please.
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You read more into my comment than I meant. We are not stringently anti or pro television. When our daughter was growing up we mostly did without–we think she benefitted. Later we had cable.
When we moved from the city to five acres in exurbia on a large island, there was no cable to our property. We are cutting our lifestyle and expenses as we head into retirement. We bought a couple of small televisions and VCR/DVD players, one downstairs for couple use, one upstairs for watching on the treadmill. We decided to save money by not getting a satellite connection.
We occasionally watch DVDs. My wife likes Murder She Wrote and StarGate.
As a person with a taste for comedy and satire, I’ve been watching Seinfeld and the Simpsons. She listens to books on tape. I read on the ferry and spend time on the Internet, partly here and partly on my and other blogs.
We spend a lot of time cultivating our large garden and landscaping our “plantation.” My wife plants flowers; I shoot bunnies with an air rifle.
We visit and host our daughter and her partner and her partner’s child: our “out of law” grandch
We both find ourselves sufficiently amused without “live” television. I don’t consider people morally and intellectually superior or inferior by whether they watch or don’t watch television. My message was simply a statement of fact–we don’t watch television.
The show described in this thread, however, strikes me as rather “sick”; I find myself in agreement I suspect with many of the evangelical Christians here in this regard. Although I am an atheist, I don’t feel like I sign a vow either to agree with or disagree with Christians on particular issues.
I’m sorry if I agitated you unnecessarily; if necessarily, glad to provide the service.
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