Posted by
reasonmclucus on Tuesday, July 01, 2008 3:54:20 PM
In previous posts I discussed the abuse of babies for profit by
NBC on its reality show
"The Baby
Borrowers,"
If you agree that this series should be ended you can
protest in various ways. You can tell NBC what you think on the
NBC FORUM
You can protest to your local NBC affiliate about the
program. You could also file a
protest with the
FCC, although the situation would not seem to fit into a specific
category of protest topics on their website.
You can link to
Dr.
Jan Hunt's letter criticizing the show on
your blog, post it on sites that reprint articles from
other
sites or write a letter to your local newspaper.
You can contact your Senators and Representative in Congress to request
a
congressional investigation of the program with the possibility
of prohibiting television from using children, especially babies,
in reality shows. Congress should at the very least require NBC
and its advertisers for the program to establish a trust fund to cover
any subsequent mental health problems the children might experience
because of the program. Currently only California has
legislation protecting child actors from exploitation by the
entertainment industry and "stage
mothers".
Many child actors have experienced serious
psychological problems as
adults.
Paul Peterson
who played Jeff Stone, the son on "The Donna Reed"
show, has spoken out for years on the problems of child actors.
You can contact the companies that advertised on the program and
request that they not advertise on any future programs in the
series. A
partial list of advertisers includes:
Verizon
Wireless,
Tylenol,
Subway,
Mentos gum,
Hot Pockets,
Klondike Bar,
All
Bran,
Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep,
T_Mobile,
Wanted, (
Pizza Hut)
CoffeeMate, Samsung, Listerine, Vagisil, All State.