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Who would have thought that the government really has more control over PBS than it does over Fox network’s The Simpsons?
I am amused to no end by the controversy that stemmed from Postcards from Buster’s visit to Vermont to tap maple trees with folks up there. I once checked out the show, and was really pleased and amused that the show was so wholesome and so clever. If I was a kid, I would definitely have tuned in, just like I did to Mr. Rogers until I was about 15 (I always have liked wholesome programming — Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven, you know the type).
And the Simpsons is the reason Fox is on the map, and probably indirectly responsible for the propagandist media coverage. But the Simpsons is the one show on television to be able to spoof the government, and country’s feeling about gay marriage without getting death threats from people in power (or maybe they’re just tough… they can take it).
So all the power to Fox — I never thought I’d say it. We should all boycott public television. Wait! What am a I saying… I take it back…
But seriously — it is really a tragedy that the government has such a hand in saying what PBS is allowed to show — and power to the people that the show aired most places anyway due to great local stations — but a scary thing that ‘censorship’ of something as harmless as two women teaching a kid how to tap a maple tree in Vermont has become such a national norm.
Couldn’t we just suffer through a weekly fundraiser on PBS, and not have to deal with the government at all? I’m sure the government would, likewise, be happy to take another public service off the table and save a few bucks anyway.
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