People keep bemoaning Sesame Street as a prominent reason to keep NPR around. You're telling me no other network would consider picking up Sesame Street if NPR folded?
Other Public TV shows, "This Old House" for example, are already rerun on other networks.
If the programming is worth anything, someone will run it.
Gotchoo2: Oh, please. Come...on! Go look up the word facetious. I know it's been a long winter, but get in touch with your warm inner sense of German (French?) humor, big guy.
The snobbery to which I referred was in the tone of svensota's comment. One can express one's preference without inferring that one's debate opponent has inferior taste or intelligence. One need not set oneself upon an imagined pedestal from which to judge the imagined masses. It only reflects a certain smallness back upon the speaker. (A smallness to which, by the way, some speakers appear to be oblivious.)
Every character on sesame street is a licensed trademark. The products based on those characters rake in billions of dollars each year. They engineer fake "shortages" of certain products to garner free advertising as brow-beaten parents compete for supplies. Sesame street products are never discounted. I would not mind seeing Elmo getting his little red butt out to find an honest job.
Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers are such snobby elitist shows. They need to be axed. We need our children to only watch commerical television programming so they can be properly indoctrinated at a young age in the world of instant gratification as typical American consumers.
One observers "quality" is another's effete intellectual snobbery. In any case it doesn't pay the rent. Snobbery is a luxury item. Earn the rent first and then see how much snobbery is affordable with the leftover wealth. Not so much? Welcome to the realm of honest pay for honest work, Pilgrim. A little respect, s'il vous plait? Ah! Tres bien!
Wonderful analysis, Gotchoo2. But, you are only taking the quantitative approach. Consider the qualitative approach as well. For example: A barrel of FOX numbskulls does not equal a thimble of intellectually superior NPR listeners.
In a free market system the provider of the superior product wins the greater share of the market. If an independently funded NPR could win listeners and viewers away from FOX in sufficient numbers. perhaps FOX would have to go away. I sincerely doubt that would happen because FOX has succeeded by competing for audience all along. NPR would have to learn new lessons before they could even begin to be as successful as FOX.
Absolutely. NPR is the propaganda outlet for us elitist liberals and is , therefore, totally deserving of taxpayer support. Besides, how else will all those cabbies in New York and Chicago hear the news as we want them to hear it.
beerbelly918
Looking for places to make cuts START here...
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svensota
Ja, du bist ein grosserwunderbarfellow, also, too, Herr MCW. Vee go playen zee glockenspielgentinklethingie zist sommer, no?
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middleclassworker
Svensota, You're awesome...even if your name isn't German :)
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svensota
MCW, thanks. You make so much sense and have not lost your sense of humor up here in the tundra.
Your best quote, ever: We should be more afraid of fascism, now, than socialism.
It's become my new mantra. Ahhh-oooooooommm.
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middleclassworker
That's all we need--to have Faux buy the rights Sesame Street so that Big Bird can tell everyone why Obama is bad.
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PastResident
People keep bemoaning Sesame Street as a prominent reason to keep NPR around. You're telling me no other network would consider picking up Sesame Street if NPR folded?
Other Public TV shows, "This Old House" for example, are already rerun on other networks.
If the programming is worth anything, someone will run it.
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svensota
Still hung over from St. Patty's Day, huh?
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gotchoo2
Maybe not. How about a 63 year old Irish woman? A singularly unamused 63 year old Irish woman. You lose.
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svensota
Gotchoo2: Oh, please. Come...on! Go look up the word facetious. I know it's been a long winter, but get in touch with your warm inner sense of German (French?) humor, big guy.
Gotcha!
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gotchoo2
The snobbery to which I referred was in the tone of svensota's comment. One can express one's preference without inferring that one's debate opponent has inferior taste or intelligence. One need not set oneself upon an imagined pedestal from which to judge the imagined masses. It only reflects a certain smallness back upon the speaker. (A smallness to which, by the way, some speakers appear to be oblivious.)
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gotchoo2
Every character on sesame street is a licensed trademark. The products based on those characters rake in billions of dollars each year. They engineer fake "shortages" of certain products to garner free advertising as brow-beaten parents compete for supplies. Sesame street products are never discounted. I would not mind seeing Elmo getting his little red butt out to find an honest job.
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JReader
Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers are such snobby elitist shows. They need to be axed. We need our children to only watch commerical television programming so they can be properly indoctrinated at a young age in the world of instant gratification as typical American consumers.
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gotchoo2
One observers "quality" is another's effete intellectual snobbery. In any case it doesn't pay the rent. Snobbery is a luxury item. Earn the rent first and then see how much snobbery is affordable with the leftover wealth. Not so much? Welcome to the realm of honest pay for honest work, Pilgrim. A little respect, s'il vous plait? Ah! Tres bien!
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svensota
Wonderful analysis, Gotchoo2. But, you are only taking the quantitative approach. Consider the qualitative approach as well. For example: A barrel of FOX numbskulls does not equal a thimble of intellectually superior NPR listeners.
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gotchoo2
In a free market system the provider of the superior product wins the greater share of the market. If an independently funded NPR could win listeners and viewers away from FOX in sufficient numbers. perhaps FOX would have to go away. I sincerely doubt that would happen because FOX has succeeded by competing for audience all along. NPR would have to learn new lessons before they could even begin to be as successful as FOX.
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mnsotn
Can we make Faux news go away, then?
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svensota
Absolutely. NPR is the propaganda outlet for us elitist liberals and is , therefore, totally deserving of taxpayer support. Besides, how else will all those cabbies in New York and Chicago hear the news as we want them to hear it.
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