Re: Tuna of your Life

[Richard Chonak <rac@gabriel.cambridge.ma.us>]

> >I was just commenting on Maine PBS'
> >cynical fundraising tactic of asking its elderly viewers to change their
> >wills
> >or trusts to transfer funds to the MPBC.  It's no coincidence, I would argue,
> >for such solicitations to occur primarily bookending such programming.
> 
> Thanks for spelling this one out for me Chris.  While I'm a supporter of
> public broadcasting, this technique is one I deplore when used by
> televangelists and I equally depore it's use in this fashion.  Sorry for
> the misunderstanding.


It's common in all sorts of organizations that live from donations.  It's standard procedure in college fund raising: and U. of Maine probably does it.  I deplore it when it's done by liberals.  :-)

--RC