Tel-Chai Nation

Another couple businesses have removed their ads from TLC's "All-American Muslim", with Kayak travel company being the current one. From the Hollywood Reporter and Yahoo's Cutline, here's a description from the company marketing officer of how the network was not clearly honest with them about the content:

“The first thing I discovered was that TLC was not upfront with us about the nature of this show. As I said, it’s a worthy topic, but any reasonable person would know that this topic is a particular lightning rod. We believe TLC went out of their way to pick a fight on this, and they didn’t let us know their intentions. That’s not a business practice that generally gets repeat business from us. I also believe that it did this subject a grave disservice. Sadly, TLC is not enjoying the attention from this controversy.”

Here's a suggestion for a better TV reality documentary: why not one called "All-American Arab" which would focus on the lives of Arabs of Christian and non-Muslim backgrounds? What's wrong with conceiving of something like that, unless maybe the network's view of Christians and non-Muslims is so degradingly low, they don't have the guts to try out something that does have the potential for better ratings and advertising.

Just like Lowe's, Kayak is another company worth doing business with for similar reasons.

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