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Article: Miners bring "Real Beverly Hillbillies" complaint to NYC; CBS wants to pay an Appalachian family up to $500,000 to live in a mansion
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- May 25, 2003
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NEW YORK (AP) - Mine workers from West Virginia and Kentucky took
their protest of the planned reality show "The Real Beverly
Hillbillies" to CBS' parent company on Wednesday.
"We're tired of the negative image of the Appalachian people," Tom
Manuel, an underground electrician from Fairmont, W. Va., said
outside Viacom's Manhattan headquarters, where the media giant was
holding a shareholders meeting.
CBS has "been on what we call a 'hick hunt,"' added Cecil Roberts,
president of the United Mine Workers of America, "trying to find
somebody that will take money and go to Beverly Hills to live in a
mansion so that our entire country can make fun of them.
"We think that's practicing bigotry. ...