Re: Fred Rogers

["Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>
To: <bri@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: Fred Rogers


> I think the problem with that idea is that inevitably the shows will
become
> little more than inducements to buy the merchandise (a la The Transformers
> and G.I.Joe), rather than the other way around.

That's not supported by the facts.  Sesame Street certainly hasn't gone down
that road.

> It's an old but true saying: "You can't sell a small part of your soul,
you
> gotta sell it all."

Did Fred Rogers work for free?  I don't think so.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine