From: bryn samuels <brynmarie>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:17:25 -0500

You're in luck! It just so happens I have created a facebook group entitled Save Reading Rainbow. I think you're right about the groundswell of numbers. I don't have any thought-out ideas about what to do with those numbers in form of protest, but I'm hoping someone can help me think of something. The links to the NPR report and Anne's petition are on there, as well. Hope this isn't too blatant a solicitation and inappropriate for the group, but it's involved me in all kinds of early literacy discussions today. From how I learned about booktalks to connecting crosscurricular concepts between and throughout books and so much more.

Here's the fb group link: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=144192794133&ref=search&sid=4715610.1865791473..1

~bryn

Bryn Samuels, M.Ed. Nashville, TN School Library student (UTKnoxville)


On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:01 PM, <SIwanter at aol.com> wrote:

> 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
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