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Fox, Bad Dads? How about ‘Fox: Bad Programming’

April 28, 2008 on 7:57 am | In Parenting, The News, Hot Air |

My wife is a fan of Fox reality shows.  For one, I won’t stay in the room while she has them on.  Whether it’s the world’s most annoying, rude and Medusa-looking Judge Judy or that idiot, mad-mouth cussing clown on Hell’s Kitchen, I can’t stand to have the TV on or be around such foolishness. (For God’s sake, the big deal the other night as I passed thru was how many pounds of pasta someone had mad while that idiot yelled at them a string of obscenities.)
Now from this blog, Fox is considering a show on mothers who would use Fox producers to hunt down deadbeat dads.  While I don’t support not paying support, this is such a bad concept.  I mean, this would be as bad as say, having had a Fox crew follow around my ex in 1997-98 when she was off doing activities not supportive of our marriage and putting them on TV for all the world to see, including the children of the parents involved.  I can’t imagine a family counselor out there who would think this would be something positive for the kids to see.  And they eventually would, whether it be in the first season of such utter bad programming, or in syndication, or worse, when it gets to YouTube.

But why would Fox care about the further harm they’d be doing to children across America?  After all, they’d be making money on the deal and so would their advertisers.