“Kid Nation” raises controversy
I’m sure all of you by now have heard of CBS’s new reality TV show, “Kid Nation”. It’s a show that has 40 children let lose in a ghost town in the middle of New Mexico. The children are then challenged to rebuild and run the town all on their own. They have 40 days to sink or swim. Unlike “Survivor”, there aren’t weekly eliminations and each child could go home whenever they wished. Each child that finishes the entire series will be awarded $5,000 with a $20,000 bonus to the child voted the best participant of each episode. This show has been drumming up some serious controversy, between questions about violating child labor laws, to parents outrage to questions over the safety of letting children cook/etc alone unsupervised. In the midst of all this, “Kid Nation” is getting some great publicity and I doubt there’s too many people out there who haven’t heard of this new show (premiering September 19 at 8pm) and aren’t at least a little interested in checking it out and seeing what all the hubub is about.
August 28th, 2007 at 9:31 am
They were talking about this on the ShaunOMac show Sunday night … apparently one girl got her face burned by hot grease and some other kids made drinks with bleach in them to give to kids they don’t like?
That goes beyond cooking unsupervised to me, but that info is third hand too so who knows … either way, I will be interested to see how this plays out because it does not sound good at all.