Murdoch's New Show: Who's Your Daddy? My question: Where's His Conscience?

Rupert Murdoch does it again. He gives us Fox News, then he gives us sleaze. His latest Fox TV offering, "Who's Your Daddy," has sparked fury, acording to a Reuters dispatch. Reuters said, 'The "Who's Your Daddy?' show, in which a young woman given up for adoption as a child gets a $100,000 prize for picking out her biological father from a line-up, is the latest in America's obsession with reality TV programming." 

The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute says the Fox program is “destructive, insensitive and offensive” to the tens of millions of Americans with adoption in their families. The group says, "The very idea is perverse and offensive. By turning adoption reunions into a game show, 'Who's Your Daddy?' takes an intensely personal and complex situation - and an increasingly commonplace one - and transforms it into a voyeuristic display."

Amy Ridenhour predicts, "Now that Fox is turning adoption into a reality show with its unfortunate Who's Your Daddy? (should be called: 'Who's Your Sperm Donor'? -- real Daddies father ["father" is a verb]) reality show, I predict we'll soon see an ever worse development. That is, a reality show in which newborn babies are taken from their parents and the parents have to guess which son or daughter is their own."

Actually, Maury Povich (Mr. Connie Chung) does a variation of this almost every day, when he features women who don't know who fathered their children. DNA tests are used to narrow down the culprits.

Here's the show for Thursday -12/23/04: