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Yesterday’s outrage

The summer's biggest reality TV-related controversy involved CBS' Kid Nation, a series that gave 40 kids 40 days to live without adults, and to construct their own society. Critics were appalled by the contract parents signed (which, among other things, absolved CBS of responsibility if any of the underage participants died or contracted an STD), reports that some kids were injured, and just the concept itself.
January 1, 2008

The summer's biggest reality TV-related controversy involved CBS' Kid Nation, a series that gave 40 kids 40 days to live without adults, and to construct their own society. Critics were appalled by the contract parents signed (which, among other things, absolved CBS of responsibility if any of the underage participants died or contracted an STD), reports that some kids were injured, and just the concept itself.

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