jus_the_facts
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Fri Apr-23-04 10:12 PM
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Next weeks 20/20....a teenage girl picks the parents of her baby? |
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.....next week on 20/20 they're gonna dedicate the hour to a *reality* show concept(their words)....by having a pregnant teenaged girl pick the parents of her baby out of 5 couples...Barbara just said how *special* it was gonna be...wtf?! :puke:
Shouldn't that be illegal? :shrug:
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Fri Apr-23-04 10:14 PM
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:wtf: is this?????
Where's the decency in this??? They won't let caring homosexuals adopt but you get to choose who adopts your child on a GD game show?????
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Fri Apr-23-04 10:17 PM
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3. That's what they just announced at the end of the show tonight...... |
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.....Barbara was all giddy...I swear it! x(
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Fri Apr-23-04 10:16 PM
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2. I guess I don't get it. |
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What should be illegal about it?
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Fri Apr-23-04 10:18 PM
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4. it's a *blackmarket* sort of thing...as I see it..... |
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Edited on Fri Apr-23-04 10:20 PM by jus_the_facts
....for sale to the highest bidder like?:shrug:
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Fri Apr-23-04 10:33 PM
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7. I'd have to see the "bidding process"... |
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...before I threw out something like that.
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Fri Apr-23-04 10:37 PM
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Money isn't necessarily the motivating factor. With private adoptions and many agencies, the woman giving her baby up has a say as to which family the baby ends up with. I think it's somewhat distasteful to air such a thing but it's certainly on the up and up.
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Fri Apr-23-04 10:40 PM
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9. You can't say for sure that money isn't a factor with something like this. |
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Edited on Fri Apr-23-04 10:41 PM by w4rma
This is a slippery slope. Definitely a slippery slope. Imho.
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Fri Apr-23-04 10:53 PM
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11. just seems like it's sellin' the baby to me....regardless...... |
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....made me rather ill when I heard Baba Wawa and that smug ass John Stossell talkin' about it as their take on a *reality show* to unite the *lucky* couple with this teens baby....it's like the first poster said...a game show of an adoption....beyond tasteless imho! :(
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Fri Apr-23-04 10:25 PM
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5. Only FOX would do something like this |
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Fri Apr-23-04 10:31 PM
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If it comes down to money than that would be a problem. But if it comes down to what religion would the child be or what values would the child have etc, I see no problem.
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Fri Apr-23-04 10:41 PM
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10. Well, this is the reality show the elite whites have been waiting for |
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Edited on Fri Apr-23-04 10:41 PM by mouse7
Take away the healthy children from poor people and deal them out to the elite white childless couples.
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Fri Apr-23-04 11:02 PM
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13. it *should be* criminal....... |
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Fri Apr-23-04 10:57 PM
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12. This show has gotten so bad |
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Edited on Fri Apr-23-04 10:58 PM by mountainvue
that I just can't watch it anymore.
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Fri Apr-23-04 11:30 PM
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14. I don't usually but wanted to see the story about Pat Tillman tonight..... |
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Sat Apr-24-04 05:31 PM
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Sat Apr-24-04 05:34 PM
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16. Oh well now, this is REALLY important |
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Can't have pesky little things like a corrupt administration gettin' away with treason sullying up the airwaves.
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Sat Apr-24-04 06:13 PM
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17. Choosing Parents is OK |
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Why shouldn't the person giving up the baby be able to choose parents? I think it's barbaric that they didn't used to let the birthmother have any say in who adopted her child.
Now, billing it as entertainment--that's bizarre. And having couples "compete" a la "The Bachelor"--that's disturbing.
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Sat Apr-24-04 06:17 PM
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18. "Who Wants To Adopt My Unborn Child?" |
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Don't be surprised if they spin it off into the most disgusting reality show ever.
Is there a consolation prize for the four unlucky couples who are not chosen? Maybe a free baby from China or something? It's the least Barbara could do.
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Sat Apr-24-04 06:21 PM
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Tacky. Tasteless too.
I saw that preview and thought to myself, well, another wall knocked down in pursuit of "reality".
I remember when 20/20 used to be more substantial. Now it is just ABC's Dateline.
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Sat Apr-24-04 07:00 PM
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20. it's all about bein' entertained....instead of bein' informed...... |
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.....the circus maximus media! :crazy:
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