A Step too Far? "'Oxygen' halts controversial 'Babies' Mamas' project"
Oxygen halts controversial 'Babies' Mamas' project
By FRAZIER MOORE | Associated Press – 14 hrs ago
NEW YORK (AP) — Oxygen Media has pulled the plug on "All My Babies' Mamas," a reality special the network was developing about a musician who has fathered 11 children with 10 different mothers.
The one-hour program would have featured Atlanta rap artist Shawty Lo, his children and their mothers. It was expected to air later this year on Oxygen, an NBCUniversal cable network owned by Comcast.
"All My Babies' Mamas" got a hostile public reception after Oxygen announced it last month. At least one petition calling for Oxygen to shut it down has collected more than 37,000 signatures.
The Parents Television Council called the program's concept "grotesquely irresponsible and exploitive" and pledged to contact advertisers of the show if it reached the air.
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I'm not a censorship Advocate...but, that's the problem. When does one draw the line?
Some would say let them do the Show and let the Audience Decide. (I can go with that to a certain extent) ....but, as we know there really isn't anything like Balance from our FCC who is tied to Big Money/Christian (Chamber of Commerce) Right and Big Money Dumbing down our Whole Society.
So...what do we do about this? They have had a Great Long RUN...
Shouldn't some of us who feel this kind of "Cheaply Produced Reality Show" is just manipulating Average Americans and creating some kind of "Sub Culture" which worships MORE disintegration of our society with this kind of crap?
But, then? WHO should be the DECIDER of what the MASSES WANT? If it reflects their Current Lives in America that some Rap Star can Father Children by 11 different Women....why wouldn't anyone want to know how he handles this STUD SITUATION.
As long as he makes the money from his singing...and can support them...should that be THE MESSAGE?
It's a hard call on this one as with most difficult morality questions that tie us in knots all over the spectrum. 
I honestly don't know how to deal with it. But, I was very glad that this show was stopped. YET...Should it have been?
