Mister Rogers defending PBS to the US Senate
Posted by admin in Finance Thursday, 10 March 2011 21:16 26 Comments
In 1969, Fred Rogers appeared before the United States Senate Subcommittee on Communications. His goal was to support funding for PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in response to significant proposed cuts by President Nixon.
@MrFreeLibertarian
$600k per year is far less than the average CEO makes. You need to pay at least a moderately competitive price to attract any talent, otherwise you’re not only wasting the CEO’s money but all the money given to the entity.
@metallicakixtotalass that’s the best and ‘truthiest’ line of Colbert’s career…conservatives see facts as being biased one way or another, and if the facts are inconsistent with their distorted and delusional world then the facts MUST be liberal! NPR has become the domain of Nice Polite Republicans…the list includes conservative-biased ‘journalists’ like Faux Noise puppet Juan Williams, Cokie Roberts, Steve Inskeep, Mara Liarsson, David Brooks, etc., etc. Mr. Rogers was the best!
@V2Blast And The Electric Company made funky as funky can get !!! — but seriously, I learned so much from from my childhood growing up and watching PBS… reading (phonics especially from Electric company), manners, Reading Rainbow made me love books, Mr. Rogers even exposed me to Jazz, there was Masterpiece Theatre… Sesame Street and Electric Company also gave me roll models from other cultures… so much… PBS *is* important!!!
Never realized Mr Rogers was such a progressive Vulcan! Thanks for not judging me while I ate cereal in my underwear while I watched your show as a child
Mr. Rogers was a smarmy, arrogant SOB.
Who the hell dislikes Mr Rogers?
@V2Blast Same here
Mr. Rogers acceptance speech for his lifetime achievement Emmy Award is epic.
Search Youtube for Fred Rogers Acceptance Speech – 1997
@MrFreeLibertarian
But defunding PBS and NPR won’t even begin to make a dent in the deficit. Yet the Republicans are spending half their time trying to disassemble programs that they personally oppose, by using the deficit as a shallow justification.
“I end the program by saying, “You’ve made this day a special day, by just your being you. There’s no person in the whole world like you, and I like you, just the way you are.” And I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service for mental health. I think that it’s much more dramatic that two men could be working out their feelings of anger. I’m constantly concerned about what our children are seeing”
I’m lucky enough to live in Pittsburgh where we get WQED radio with NPR. PBS is awesome and Fred Rogers is part of our proud history in Pittsburgh.
@hufer95 Same. Sesame Street made me smart, and Mr. Rogers made me nice.
PBS and NPR need Mr. Rodgers now.
Maybe if mainstream media would have promoted something like, during the last decade, instead of Hawthorne Heights and My Chemical Romance, there would have been less kids cutting themselves, then growing up as adults with irresponsible scars on their bodies.
@MrFreeLibertarian Yes, and Sesame Street and the network can pay for itself…Even without every three months whining for money. Look at the Elmo dolls…..multi millions sold. They know they have and can get the money but whine for the government to give me…give me. It’s just pathetic…actually just plain sad.
@hufer95 agreed completely.
now that i watched this, i no joke realized that Mr. Rogers made me not an asshole. i’m not kidding. i’m SO glad i watched this show early in my life.
I wish there were more people like Mr. Rogers in this world.
Someone actually DID care. A different world indeed.
@JesusChristsuxCocks I did not know that. Thanks for the info.
@MrFreeLibertarian You think that’s a large amount of compensation for the president of a corporation? Take a look at upper management salaries for the defense contractors our government is so ready to liberally fund. If you were a true libertarian, you’d be raging against the military industrial complex that frivolously sucks away half out budget, rather than the pittance we afford to public broadcasting.
@balasuar Uh, why is this so hard for you to understand? The problem is not the high salary. The problem is taxpayer funding. If PBS makes so much money that they can pay high salaries, they don’t need government funding. You do realize that this country is going broke don’t you? And that we have a very serious debt problem? Or maybe you don’t, I guess Sesame Street doesn’t spend a lot of time on this topic. LOL!
@DarekHB Mr Fred Rogers died after getting buttphucked by Captain Cangaroo Bob Keeshan.
God bless the words of Mr. Rodgers here, man means each one with his damn soul
@MarkRosengarten: More like the Discovery Channel has become the Shark Week channel. Ugh.
Letmewatcththisname…
major publish. i glance forward to reading a lot more. cheers….