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Center for Rural Strategies
Print ad, 2004

When CBS proposed producing a "Beverly Hillbillies" reality show that would have relocated an entire "lower middle class" rural family to a Hollywood mansion, PMC produced this ad for the Center for Rural Strategies to protest. The Center questioned the wisdom of CBS management and advertisers to consider such a humiliating and offensive program. By bringing national attention to the issue, the Center was brought into dialogue with CBS. The result: CBS pulled the plug on the show.

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