LMC’s ongoing collaboration with Center for Rural Strategies has helped to establish the organization as a national thought leader in rural policy and an advocate for rural Americans. One of our earliest messaging and media relations efforts enabled the Center to engineer a halt to a national network’s plans to launch a reality TV show lampooning poor white rural Americans. The resulting coverage was harsh and eventually persuaded CBS chief executive Les Moonves to cancel the show before it ever aired.

Read some of the coverage here.