Morons who attack PBS and Big Bird...
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I get sick and tired of the idiots that attack PBS and things like Big Bird. It's just a ridiculous thing to do. When I was a child growing up, we had four television channels and one of them, the ABC affiliate, barely would come in and only at certain times when the weather was just right. But I grew up with the child programs of PBS. Shows like Sesame Street probably taught more poor kids to read, write and count than most realize, especially those on the right. Not only that, it probably exposed more white children to people of color than these same people realize. Another good thing about these shows was while yes, there are children's shows today, back these shows were not largely used for the selling of American products like today's shows are. As many other people have remarked over the years, most programming is just interruptions between advertising. As for the "bias" in the programming of PBS - when it is examined, not only is this a false claim, but for any perceived whine of the right's claims of bias all one has to do is examine the mission of PBS and it's further revealed such claims are bullshit - it's about "public" broadcasting and to the right, anything that does not carrying THEIR distinct views is ALWAYS biased to them. (But the most laughable observation of their claims is over the years, if one examines all of the political style shows on PBS, the majority have been moderated by those considered conservative - Buckley, McLaughlin, Ruckeyser and others). Still, what gets me is that here we have these characters that actually benefit America by teaching those most in need of help and we have fools like those on the right that want to stop this.
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I get sick and tired of the idiots that attack PBS and things like Big Bird. It's just a ridiculous thing to do. When I was a child growing up, we had four television channels and one of them, the ABC affiliate, barely would come in and only at certain times when the weather was just right. But I grew up with the child programs of PBS. Shows like Sesame Street probably taught more poor kids to read, write and count than most realize, especially those on the right. Not only that, it probably exposed more white children to people of color than these same people realize. Another good thing about these shows was while yes, there are children's shows today, back these shows were not largely used for the selling of American products like today's shows are. As many other people have remarked over the years, most programming is just interruptions between advertising. As for the "bias" in the programming of PBS - when it is examined, not only is this a false claim, but for any perceived whine of the right's claims of bias all one has to do is examine the mission of PBS and it's further revealed such claims are bullshit - it's about "public" broadcasting and to the right, anything that does not carrying THEIR distinct views is ALWAYS biased to them. (But the most laughable observation of their claims is over the years, if one examines all of the political style shows on PBS, the majority have been moderated by those considered conservative - Buckley, McLaughlin, Ruckeyser and others). Still, what gets me is that here we have these characters that actually benefit America by teaching those most in need of help and we have fools like those on the right that want to stop this.
