New York Post reports on our "Nurse Precious" campaign
December 18, 2003 -- Today the New York Post ran a brief item by Michael Starr about letter-writing campaigns by the Center and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) protesting the use of an orangutan to play a private duty nurse on NBC's soap opera "Passions."
The piece, which carries the interesting headline "Nurses Curses 'Passions' Chimp," includes quotes from Truth executive director Sandy Summers, who notes that the show's use of a monkey to play a private duty nurse character reinforces "powerful stereotypes that contribute to the critical nursing shortage."
The article also reports that the use of the orangutan, apparently a four-year-old male named Bam Bam, has a sparked a PETA campaign and a related letter from renowned monkey expert Dr. Jane Goodall to NBC chief Jeff Zucker. PETA and Goodall want Bam Bam off the show because they believe that animals used in such shows endure abusive treatment.
See Michael Starr's article "Nurses Curses 'Passions' Chimp" in the New York Post.
See our Passions campaign page.
Please join our campaign!
We are sending letters about the "nurse" monkey to:
Lisa de Cazotte
Executive Producer
Passions
4024 Radford Ave.
Studio City, CA 91604
Tel.: 818-655-5454
Fax: 818-655-8375
Please fax (preferable) or call in your comments. If you do not have a fax, please email the Center a copy of your letter and ask us to fax it for you.
Please also send a copy of your letter to NBC Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Bob Wright at bob.wright@nbc.com. Please also blind carbon copy the Center at letters@truthaboutnursing.org so that we can monitor the effectiveness of this campaign.
See our executive director's letter to the creators of Nurse Precious on our bulletin board thread. Here you can also post a copy of your own letter to the Passions producers or see what others have written.
Please also send a copy of your letter to Passions' sponsors and encourage them to stop advertising on Passions:
Johnathan Coon
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Paul Toback
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Markus Hankammer, CEO
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Douglas N. Daft
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Thomas Kunz
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Olza M. Nicely
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Raymond V. Gilmartin
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James E. Burke, Chair
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Jack L. Stahl
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Alan J. Lacy
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John P. Walters, Director White House Office of National Drug Control Policy P.O. Box 6000 Rockville, MD 20849–6000 800–666–3332 301–519–5212 (fax) ondcp@ncjrs.org |