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

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. ...

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