I'm Glad somebody finally has the guts to speak out about this.
Text from the alert:
Week of August 6, 2007CBS's and the producers of the reality show Big Brother 8 are allowing a contestant on the show to verbally abuse and threaten a female contestant with violence.
One of the show's contestants, a 44-year-old man named Dick has repeatedly verbally attacked 23-year-old Jen, calling her crude names, telling her he'd like to sodomize her until she bleeds to death and that if he was wasn't in the house (and at risk of being expelled) he would like to kill her. In a recent episode, he dumped a glass of tea over Jen's head, laughed about it, and said he wished it had been "piss." Many fans called for his expulsion from the Big Brother house. Instead, Dick is still in the house and CBS is running ads promoting the "explosive" events of the house.
Contact CBS and tell them allowing this kind of abusive behavior for the sake of entertainment is irresponsible and unforgivable.
Contact CBS:
CBS Television Network
51 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
(212) 975-4321And the show's producers:
Allison Grodner Productions Inc.
12925 Riverside Dr, 4th Floor
Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
(818) 325-6900
Can be seen on their website at: http://www.canow.org/takeaction/mediaoutrage.php Just scroll down to August 6th.
Text from a recent email response:
Thanks for writing on the NOW website about the Big Brother show and Dick,the contestant, and his abusive behavior.Last week we launched a letter-writing campaign regarding this show.
Last week we asked everyone on our email list to contact the network and the show's producer and complain.
We are also sending a letter from CA NOW (representing our 100,000 members and donors) to the producers and network.
Thanks for thinking of us and for adding your input to the mounting concern over this show's endorsement (through their silence and failure to act) of abusive, misogynistic and homophobic behavior.
