"Bob Whiteside" wrote in message
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David R. Usher
FOX Plans Reality-TV "Bad Dads" Colosseum "Lynching" of Poor Men
April 24, 2008

I was astonished to see that FOX Television, in its nauseating quest for
ever tawdry reality-TV shows, plans to turn the problems of poor fathers
into an extermination in the Fox Colosseum.


According to the Hollywood Reporter, Fox tagged Jim Durham, Director of
the "National Child Support Center", as the leading lion of the event.
Interestingly, this organization does not exist. The real name of the
company Durham runs is named "National Child Support" (NCS). The NCS is
not a national or official organization - it is a private for-profit
fee-based collections agency located in Cincinnati, Ohio. Their website
cannily does not identify Durham on its website, but Zoominfo tagged the
truth.

National Child Support Center is one of several DBA's for Innovative
Collection Concepts, Inc. from Cincinnati. See:

http://www.manta.com/coms2/dnbcompany_626kc9

I believe the proposed Fox show could have some value because I don't
think they can produce a series of shows based on the false stereotypes
they have about fathers, how they perceive the CS system works, and how CS
collection companies operate. It would be my guess the producers will
find some savvy fathers who can articulate the poor/arbitrary treatment
they received in the CS system, and state CS administrators won't sit
still for allegations of their ineffectiveness. I think a show that stirs
up a lot of emotional backlash will expose the system for what it is - a
bureaucratic nightmare that operates using rigid anti-father biases.

I've been thinking along similar lines. Such a show, after they've gone
through the half dozen "Trophy" Dads (those with the money to burn to afford
the 18 car garage house-on-the-golf course with the new "Trophy" Second Wife
and all) and start to get into the blue collar, working class Dads that more
then make up the majority of divorced fathers, there just might be a change
of turning thing monster on it's head and shining a light on the real
problem.

Of course, the suits at Fox can always pull the plug on the show after they
hit the real McCoy's and "reality" comes home to roust on them with father's
launching defamation suits against them, charging Fox billions in revenue
when they snag that one Father who won't take their smear campaign and
propaganda machine lying down.

But we can hope...