The producers of CBS’ upcoming reality trainwreck Kid Nation (which features “40 children living on their own in the New Mexico desert”) were reportedly “warned by the state attorney general’s office while the show was being taped last spring that they might be violating the state’s child-labor laws.”

Not surprisingly, it appears that CBS ignored both the repeated warnings of state officials and the standards of good taste by continuing to exploit film their semi-willing participants and document their ongoing struggle with premature independence, incompetent absentee parents and, of course, intense sweatshop labor.

[NYT]

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