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Protests Erupt Over Fox's 'Who's Your Daddy?' Show


The Fox network has received thousands of complaints from people nationwide about their new reality show, 'Who's Your Daddy?' which is set to debut on January 3rd. The show features a woman who was given up for adoption. If she can pick her biological father out of a lineup of possible men, she will be given $100,000.

Many people object to the program's use of such a sensitive issue for crass economic gain. Deborah Capone, who has a five-year-old adopted child, started an e-mail campaign that has generated at least 5,000 messages to Fox.

'By turning adoption reunions into a game show, 'Who's Your Daddy?' takes an intensely personal and complex situation ... and transforms it into a voyeuristic display,' Capone said.

Capone's next move is to target potential advertisers in an attempt to have the show shelved before it is even aired.

The shows producers say people are overreacting to the name. 'Knowing what we did and the lives that we changed for the positive, I was very surprised. I expected there to be a reaction to the title but I felt people would watch it and then make their decisions,' said the show's executive producerm Kevin Healey. Healy argues that the show has nothing but good intentions. 'It came from a very pure place not from a place of trying to embarrass or harm anyone,' he said.

Still the controversy continues. How low can so-called reality TV get? Critics of 'Who's Your Daddy?' may be surprised to know it has probably only scratched the surface of bad taste.

Brad Kurtzberg



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