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Producer Mark Burnett has turned into the television business into an amoral, ethics-free zone.

The producers of Survivor: Cook Islands are dividing competitors into four tribes: whites, blacks, Asians and hispanics, according to the latest report.

Wonder how many advertisers would take to that as a business proposition for selling their brand?

• The Celebrities Weblog: RACIALLY SEGREGATED "SURVIVOR" TONIGHT
• Straightfromthedoc: New York Magazine's "The Survivor Monologues"
• Blackwater's "get out of jail" card
• The ethics of "Survivor" revisited
• Harvey Pitt: Section 404 exemptions "too drastic and not necessary"
• Buffett defends corporates at "Woodstock for capitalists"