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28 July, 2004
28 July 2004"They say these people are Amish?" A media guide to the "real" Amish, and to disapprov- ing of "Rumspringa TV" (Amish in the City, premiering tonight on UPN): --The Washington Post's Susan Kinzie reports on conflicting images of the Amish, and community doubt of the show's validity. --The New York Times wonders whether the television producers aren't "a new kind of evangelical" molesting "this nonproselytizing sect." Reporter Julie Salamon finds a "from the mouths of babes" wisdom in one Amish woman's unfamiliarity with the show: "Referring to Hollywood and reality television, she asked, 'Is it some kind of church?'" --While USA Today's Robert Bianco doesn't think that the show mocks the rumspringers (mocking instead their gauche, Americanized housemates), he still believes it "wrongs a rite." The Amish stars aren't "experiencing anything close to rumspinga, which in real life doesn't come with free food, housing, money and adventures provided," he writes. "These kids aren't experiencing life, they're experiencing reality TV."
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