Variety: Senate ethics panel nixes "Millionaire''

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    Originally Posted By Doobie

    This topic is for discussion of the 5/9/2001 news item

    <b><a href="http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010509/en/television-millionaire_1.html" target="_blank">Variety: Senate ethics panel nixes "Millionaire'' stunt</a></b>
    The May 9th <I>Variety on Yahoo!</I> reports Millionaire's plans to air episodes featuring war veteran politicians whose earnings would go to charity have been halted due to Senate rules.
     
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    Originally Posted By ToonKirby

    Doesn't anybody else think that this would have been an incredibly tacky bit of self-promotion, not to mention demeaning to the people who died at Pearl Harbor and those who survived?

    What's next, Titanic survivors on "The Weakest Link"?
     
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    Originally Posted By Scutr

    I agree, but since when has Disney, ABC, or the government ever been above tacky self-promotion?
     
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    Originally Posted By Kram Sacul

    Disney is the king of tacky self-promotion.
     
    #4 See Post, May 16, 2001
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