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Letter to the Editor: Enough of the Kardashians!

Cascade Patch reader says she and others fear too many youth are buying into the "over-the-top" focus on vanity and conspicuous consumption seen in the Keeping Up With the Kardashians" reality television program.

Dear Cascade Patch:

In a grass roots effort, we have collected over 4700 signatures for a petition asking E! Entertainment to remove the Kardashian suite of shows from their programming.  

We feel that these shows are mostly staged and place an emphasis on vanity, greed, promiscuity, vulgarity and over-the-top conspicuous consumption. 

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While some may have begun watching the spectacle as mindless entertainment or as a sort of “reality satire,” it is a sad truth that many young people are looking up to this family and are modeling their appearance and behavior after them. (I’ll remind you here that the Kardashian family fame largely started with a “leaked” sex tape.)  

There is no particular religious or political platform behind our disgust; we are just finally fed up.

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The petition can be found at:  http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/no-more-kardashian.html

Some other links to new sites highlighting the public backlash to the Kardashians are as follows: http://www.facebook.com/#!/BoycottRealityTV http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/300690446616163/ http://boycottthekardashians.com/?p=210 .

And, finally, thousands of fans are protesting southwest Atlanta-based Tyler Perry Studios' plans to cast Kim Kardashian in his latest movie. The website is:  http://www.tylerperry.com/talk/

—Cyndy Snider, Cascade Patch Reader


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