Mr. Rogers, People!
I don’t have many heroes. Mr. Rogers is one of them. So when I saw my buddy Whitney post this on PopCandy, my eyes started to bleed. I’m now stealing it as a call to action. If you want to know why you should care, watch Mr. Rogers testify before congress for public television. I dare you. Please do join the cause. He. Is. The. Best.
YouTube link of Mr. Rogers defending PBS
From Popcandy:
Pop reader Amy H. is worried about Mister Rogers.
Why? Because PBS "is trying to wipe him off the face of the earth by limiting his program to once a week," she says. "I mean, what is their reasoning? He’s outdated? He’s had the same puke-green curtains since 1970, so his being outdated is hardly a new claim. But his message is TIMELESS."
A campaign has been started at http://savemisterrogers.com to try to bring back Mister Rogers' Neighborhood into daily syndication. It was started by a young father who wants his kids to grow up with the man who taught him about human kindness and comfortable sweaters.
Amy adds that a Facebook group has started as well. Hey, if it can happen with Jericho, maybe it can happen with this Neighborhood, too.
Labels: Television
posted by Brad at 1:32 PM
6 Comments:
Thanks for posting that, Brad. Mr. Rogers versus Nixon. Beautiful. Absolutely frickin' beautiful.
This isn't a fight I can get on board with. While I appreciate what Fred Rogers did for children's programming, I personally always found his show to be condescending, even as a very small child. And he spoke way too slow, which always bugged the crap out of me.
But even more than my feelings about the show, I don't see the need to rerun a show in perpetuity just because it's a classic. It takes away airtime for potential new shows. Just like it bugs me whenever I see a Peanuts strip in the paper when it's hard enough for new cartoonists to compete for what little comic space is left.
And finally, to steal a joke from Family Guy, what kinda king lives next to the train tracks??
Fred was my hero was I was little. I wrote him a thank you note as an adult and I received a letter back just before he died. It blew me away. He is a beautiful human always.
We need him now more than ever.
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