Posted on 02/19/2011 3:15:17 PM PST by tobyhill
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Bye Bye Big Bird is the wrong way to look at this. That kind of commentary only feeds the left. Instead, point out the commercial success of Big Bird and this the folly of continued corporate welfare to the Big Business of Big Bird. Much better to hoist them upon their own petard.
Good for them.. it’s about time the tax payers stopped paying for this. I read that sesame street alone makes 50 million + a year through the sale of their products. There is no reason they can’t keep their own shows going making that much money.
Congressman Blumenauer divide the amount of government subsidy by the number of actual viewers and you can easily see why Big Bird needs to get off welfare. Besides Sesame Street must make a ton of money from all the branded toys etc.
>> “That would probably be the reason we see Newt fans ridiculing and criticizing this effort.” <<
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You can take that to the bank!
Exactly right!
Tough!
Ironically, I worked on that station when I was a student there. At the time, it was run by university students, and put on locally produced programming. The students, under the direction of the faculty, carried out the various tasks involved in operating a station (reading the news, DJs, live sports reporting of our teams, operating the control boards and the transmitter, etc.). Many of them went on to careers in radio.
Today it's only nominally part of the university. It's just another PBS station running programs from NPR. Students have essentially no role in it, and it serves no educational purpose on the campus. I see no reason why it should even continue to exist, let along get taxpayer funding.
“I’ll be left without my moral compass with no Tavis Smiley or Bill Moyers.”
Oh, man. I know what you mean. When I face a dilemma I stand at the crossroads and ask myself, “what would Tavis do?.”
I then march bravely down the road absolutely NOT traveled by Smiley, knowing I have chosen wisely, whistling the theme from the Moyers show, “Fanfare for the Pompous Ass.”
And it usually works out pretty well. I’m gonna miss them, too.
In a 500 channel universe where you can watch anything on your TV from hardcore porn to live Catholic mass, the idea that NPR and PBS needs to be subsidized is beyond silly.
Let them form network structures modeled on Clear Channel and niche TV channels like National Geographic aand see how it goes in the real world.
In ‘05 or ‘06 there was an ad campaign running on talk radio stations in Wisconsin in which Wisconsin Public Television touted all the great differences between them and other TV networks. On one of the ads they talked about how their kids programming was free of the violence seen on regular TV.
I guess I missed all the gunplay on Blue’s Clues and Lizzie McGuire.
Yeah, my local NPR station runs nine hours of blues programming a week.
It is sad. I hope they will do what they promised and zero in on trillions of little pieces.
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