Watch: This is gross and the results are even more patronizing and disturbing.
“Months after a CBS show gave needy families
$101,000 and challenged them on camera to give some or all of it to
other, needier families, another competitor has emerged in the seedy
poverty porn circuit.Television network UP TV (formerly the Gospel Music Channel), which the Washington Post reports is focusing on an “uplift someone” campaign this year, produced an unintentionally dystopian take on uplifting viral videos by
subjecting dozens of low-income children in Atlanta to a moral purity
test in order to earn Christmas presents for their families.“