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From: SIwanter at aol.com <SIwanter>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:01:33 EDT
I believe a far more potent form of protest is in the creation of a FACE BOOK page, something akin to "Friends to...Save Reading Rainbow." Currently there are several Reading Rainbow fan sites anyone can join, the largest with over 11 thousand fans. This site details the production history of the program along with the money and political issues leading up to the cessation of all original production in 2006. There the story stops.
I don't know whether a groundswell can be created using a FACE BOOK page to embarrass stations back into airing the repeats, but I think it's worth a shot. Given the current economic as well as political landscape, hoping for new production appears as unlikely as finding the proverbial pot at the end of a rainbow.
I would do this myself but my skills end with the on/off switch on my computer.
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In a message dated 8/27/2009 2:53:10 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, annedean at macspeno.com writes:
I was so appalled by this news that I started my first-ever petition on the Care2 website, asking PBS to continue showing "Reading Rainbow" episodes. I invite you to sign the petition at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/return-reading-rainbow-to-the-air and assure you that any personal information will not be used anywhere else. Thank you!
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:01:33 EDT
I believe a far more potent form of protest is in the creation of a FACE BOOK page, something akin to "Friends to...Save Reading Rainbow." Currently there are several Reading Rainbow fan sites anyone can join, the largest with over 11 thousand fans. This site details the production history of the program along with the money and political issues leading up to the cessation of all original production in 2006. There the story stops.
I don't know whether a groundswell can be created using a FACE BOOK page to embarrass stations back into airing the repeats, but I think it's worth a shot. Given the current economic as well as political landscape, hoping for new production appears as unlikely as finding the proverbial pot at the end of a rainbow.
I would do this myself but my skills end with the on/off switch on my computer.
_
In a message dated 8/27/2009 2:53:10 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, annedean at macspeno.com writes:
I was so appalled by this news that I started my first-ever petition on the Care2 website, asking PBS to continue showing "Reading Rainbow" episodes. I invite you to sign the petition at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/return-reading-rainbow-to-the-air and assure you that any personal information will not be used anywhere else. Thank you!
-- Anne Dean Mackintosh 129 Westover Drive Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 annedean at macspeno.com _______________________________________________ CCBC-Net mailing list CCBC-Net at lists.education.wisc.edu Visit this link to read archives or to unsubscribe... http://lists.education.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccbc-net _ (http://sidneyiwanter.blogspot.com/)Received on Thu 27 Aug 2009 06:01:33 PM CDT
