The always-in-the-news-attention-grabbing Kardashians are inevitably in the news again, but this time, instead of some gig about a hair removal endorsement deal, or a $20M wedding, honeymoon vacation in a $3,300-a-night hotel and equally bolt-like divorce, they are at the receiving end of a protest by an online group who want their presence, wait for it, banned from TV!
Apparently the group, in its social petition website, GoPetition.com and through its author Cyndy Syder, feels that the E! Channel hosted show, ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ is ‘mostly staged and place an emphasis on vanity, greed, promiscuity, vulgarity and over-the-top conspicuous consumption’!
Already the ‘No More Kardashian’ protest is garnering support, as it has collected almost 150,000 signatures so far, which obviously shows that a lot of women, sorry, people feel strongly about the shows antics at amassing popularity. The full petition, which was first posted on the website on Wednesday, November 2, and which will be sent to the management of the entertainment channel E! reads;
‘Dear E! Online,
We are respectfully requesting that your network find other shows to air.
‘Keeping up with the Kardashians’ is just not viewing that we the public, would like to see from your network. Enough is enough. I am asking people to sign a petition that will be forwarded to E! Online to request that the show, ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians,’ ends.”
“We feel that these shows are mostly staged and place an emphasis on vanity, greed, promiscuity, vulgarity and over-the-top conspicuous consumption,” the statement reads, referring to the suite of Kardashian shows.
“While some may have begun watching the spectacle as mindless entertainment or as a sort of ‘reality satire,’ it is a sad truth that many young people are looking up to this family and are modelling their appearance and behaviour after them.”
“There is no particular religious or political platform behind our disgust; we are just finally fed up.‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ is an American reality television series that airs on E!. The series premiered in October 2007. It focuses on the personal and professional lives of the members of the Kardashian and Jenner family.
