RE: Digital TV Conversion

["Paul Hopfgarten" <hopfgapr@sprynet.com>]

And lets not forget that WGBH (and other PBS Stations) exchanging their
donor lists with the Democratic National Committee!

Now I know why I get mail from Algore!

-Paul Hopfgarten
Derry NH

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Brian
> Vita
> Sent: Sunday, October 10, 1999 1:42 PM
> To: Bill O'Neill; Dan C.; Dib9@aol.com
> Cc: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: Digital TV Conversion
>
>
> At 01:15 PM 10/10/99 -0400, Bill O'Neill wrote:
> >Big Bird, I'd miss...er, I mean, my kids would miss.  But that Elmo?
> >Through the uprights with that pipsqueak!
>
> Its the new PBS character - Extort Me Elmo.  I think that this is Public
> Broadcastings answer to the National Lampoon cover a few years ago that
> said "Buy this issue or we kill the dog" with a picture of a pooch with a
> gun to its head.  The difference is that the folks at PBS would pull the
> trigger to make their point.
>
> I say cut off all public funding and let the arts community fund them.  A
> lot of their original function, to bring education and arts to
> the unwashed
> masses, is being done better and cheaper by some of the new channels such
> as "Discover", "A&E", "TLC", "The History Channel".  The best
> part is that
> they don't beg us to death while they already have their hands in
> our pockets.
>
> I seem to remember a few years ago that there was some convtroversy about
> how PBS was being run in general.  IIRC, they were *aggressively*
> hounding
> the private sector for underwriting spots that looked amazingly like
> commercials and even had a commercial looking rate card to go with
> them.  Some of the commercial stations were complaining about the
> subsidized competition.
>
> The Boston Globe, usually a notepad for the liberal leaning left, did a
> scathing series about a year or two ago about the machine that
> WGBH has become.
>
> Brian
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