We swear, we have nothing personal against Forbes — despite our item taking media columnist James Brady to task for writing an encomium to his own daughter, not even after Michael Noer. But how were we to know what we'd find when we threw "Kid Nation" and "Lord of the Rings" into Google, certain that somewhere, someone had gotten confused between William Golding's dark and dystopic tale of English schoolboys degenerating into savages on a desert island, and the popular fantasy series centering around a lovable, shoeless Hobbit. Ding! Ladies and gentlemen, we've got a match, thanks to Forbes staff writer Lacey Rose (pretty name!), whose column came up in our search like so:

First-place CBS already had ratings, stars and lucrative franchises. That's why this season the Tiffany network actively pursued the one thing it didn't have: buzz.

But if it was pursuing the "Did you see Sanjaya's 'do'?" or "Ooh, McDreamy!" kind of water cooler buzz that's not what it got. Instead, the net's latest reality fare, a Lord of the Rings-like show titled Kid Nation, has garnered the "this is unethical and perhaps illegal" kind of chatter.

(Emphasis added.)

Hey, it happens — and it's totally not as bad as flogging your daughter's latest opus on the pages of a national magazine. And in the meantime, it's totally been fixed.* But still, it's funny. One ring to rule them all, and one ring to bind them into child labor under blurry New Mexico laws! Etc. Send your Lord of the Flies/Lord of the Rings/Kid Nation-related jokes to us here, and we'll totally publish the funny ones, because that's content, people, and content is totally the guy who gets to ram a fiery-hot poker up...well. You get what I mean.*

A Buzzworthy CBS [Forbes]

Related:
Does It Count As Disclosure If No One Ever Reads A James Brady Column All The Way Through? [ETP]

*We thwart Forbes' attempt at online correction by providing the cache link here.
**Not a Lord of the Rings reference.
***Message to fave St. Andrews Junior High School English teacher Mr. Lamb, if you're out there: I totally did all that from memory! You rule. And your obsession with slugs has stayed with me.

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