Small-town TV (was: WMUR)

[Doug Drown]

> Doug those cartoons we watched would be deemed too violent for todays 
> toddlers

Yup, I'm sure they would.  I was a big fan of Mighty Mouse when I was a 
little kid, and I can remember some MM episodes that, in hindsight, were 
incredibly violent.

--- And yet --- Why is is that heroes and villains can be blasted by rays in 
today's kiddie series, but you can't depict anything that uses bullets? 
Violence is violence is violence, it seems to me.  The argument, I suppose, 
is that ray guns aren't real.  Well, Mighty Mouse wasn't real either, and 
neither were the bullets.  Nor all that Acme stuff that went awry when Wile 
E. Coyote tried to use it.
Don't get me wrong --- I don't condone violence --- but there's a double 
standard here that I've never understood.

-Doug





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry" <tmw207@roadrunner.com>
To: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>; "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>
Cc: "Bud Yacomb" <outofthebusiness@gmail.com>; 
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Subject: Re: Small-town TV (was: WMUR)


> Doug those cartoons we watched would be deemed too violent for todays 
> toddlers
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>
> To: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>
> Cc: "Bud Yacomb" <outofthebusiness@gmail.com>; 
> <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
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> Subject: Re: Small-town TV (was: WMUR)
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>> Gus had that way with kids that Art Linkletter used to have.  I often 
>> suspected that some of the kids on "House Party" and "Kids Say the 
>> Darnedest Things" were coached by their parents (and I especially thought 
>> so in regard to Bill Cosby's later version).  But with Uncle Gus, it was 
>> all spontaneous, and he could banter with little children in a really 
>> wonderful way.  Thanks, Kevin, for reminding us of that.  It's a happy 
>> memory.
>>
>> -Doug
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>
>> To: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>
>> Cc: "Peter Q. George" <radiojunkie3@yahoo.com>; "Bud Yacomb" 
>> <outofthebusiness@gmail.com>; 
>> <boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
>> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 6:34 PM
>> Subject: Re: Small-town TV (was: WMUR)
>>
>>
>>>I never saw Gus act nasty towards the children and at times he would
>>> really warm to an individual child.
>>>
>>> Gus worked M-F 11 to 7 doing booth, Uncle Gus and the weather. He made
>>> a nice living on talent fees from Atlantic and Aubichon Hardware. He
>>> would always remind the GM that they were HIS accounts not WMUR's.
>>>
>>> The show he enjoyed the most was Santa Claus which had a huge audience
>>> into Boston.
>>>
>>> He was a good guy overall.
>>
>>
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