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Desperate Housewives controversy


1) Who the hell will base their perception on academic institutions on a throw away joke from a Sitcom? Ethnic/ Multicultural jokes have been around since the beginning of time. It may not be right but this is not an isolated case


2) More importantly , the more vehemently this is protested , the more attention this gets. If nobody made an issue out of it in the first place, then a tiny fraction of people would have even been aware something like that was said. Putting out fire with gasoline I say.


3) This contrived uproar is exactly what the execs wanted . In these days of the viscious fight for your attention (400 channels, Internet etc) anything drawing attention to their product on mainstream media is good . Worse of all, they have done this before.


http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2004-11-16-mnf-intro-apology_x.htm