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Posted
11 hours ago, Thetexashammer said:

Daily Wire is making wholesome kids media. Is everybody cool with Ben Shapiro getting a subsidy too? 

It's not an issue of "wholesome."  First off, Daily Wire is producing propaganda for kids.  It might be some truly dangerous psyop shit.  This is one of the most insidious features of your team.  The educated world does not "indoctrinate" kids, it exposes them to ideas.  Your ideas are repugnant, so they require indoctrination.

Sesame Street was specifically designed to provide the kind of engagement that privileged kids got in preschool for disadvantaged kids. In other words, free preschool at home for poor kids.

And yes, now Sesame Street is a moneymaker, just like the Muppets and I'm sure various other "franchises" created under the auspices of CPB.

They in all likelihood would never have existed without a) funding from CPB and PBS and b) airing by PBS stations.  Private funding would have been obsessed with whether they could sell enough ads for Count Chocula in their time slot.

 

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Posted
12 hours ago, elfenix said:

constantly reminded that physicians can be brilliant within their field

Where are you seeing evidence of this on surly?

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Posted
1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:

They in all likelihood would never have existed without a) funding from CPB and PBS and b) airing by PBS stations.  Private funding would have been obsessed with whether they could sell enough ads for Count Chocula in their time slot.

Private funding is always obsessed with growth above all else, even business model sustainability.

When your only goal is growth, and you don't give a shit about outcomes for the people consuming your product/service, you're gonna run that enterprise into ground and ruin everything that made it successful in the first place. It's half the reason I have a career - cleaning up that mess of bad foresight is a very very reliable means for finding work and engagements

Posted
11 hours ago, Thetexashammer said:

Daily Wire is making wholesome kids media. Is everybody cool with Ben Shapiro getting a subsidy too? 

S1/E1: Kids, dryness is your friend. 

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Posted
16 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Private funding is always obsessed with growth above all else, even business model sustainability.

When your only goal is growth, and you don't give a shit about outcomes for the people consuming your product/service, you're gonna run that enterprise into ground and ruin everything that made it successful in the first place. It's half the reason I have a career - cleaning up that mess of bad foresight is a very very reliable means for finding work and engagements

To be fair, Sesame Street was created in the pre-Friedman capitalist era, when business was a bit less psychotic about growth and quarterly reports and share price.

But, profit motive, in whatever form it took in 1968 and prior still was not up to producing educational TV for kids.

Posted
25 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Private funding is always obsessed with growth above all else, even business model sustainability.

Someone needs to read more Tuttle Twins to understand the wonders of the invisible hand.

Posted
50 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

It's not an issue of "wholesome."  First off, Daily Wire is producing propaganda for kids.  It might be some truly dangerous psyop shit.  This is one of the most insidious features of your team.  The educated world does not "indoctrinate" kids, it exposes them to ideas.  Your ideas are repugnant, so they require indoctrination.

Sesame Street was specifically designed to provide the kind of engagement that privileged kids got in preschool for disadvantaged kids. In other words, free preschool at home for poor kids.

And yes, now Sesame Street is a moneymaker, just like the Muppets and I'm sure various other "franchises" created under the auspices of CPB.

They in all likelihood would never have existed without a) funding from CPB and PBS and b) airing by PBS stations.  Private funding would have been obsessed with whether they could sell enough ads for Count Chocula in their time slot.

 

Haha jkates negged this post.  I won't neg back, but I'll call him a fascist cunt.  Cunt. 

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Posted
13 hours ago, elfenix said:

constantly reminded that physicians can be brilliant within their field but are often complete dumbshits outside of it.

I worked in IT at a hospital for four years, and can confirm this fact. 

Posted
19 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Haha jkates negged this post.  I won't neg back, but I'll call him a fascist cunt.  Cunt. 

He’s established a creepy pattern of defending people who prey on children’s minds and bodies. I really hope he's not involved in any youth activities, like the Boy Scouts or Little League Baseball.

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30 minutes ago, bolverk said:

He’s established a creepy pattern of defending people who prey on children’s minds and bodies. I really hope he's not involved in any youth activities, like the Boy Scouts or Little League Baseball.

Or any position of authority in the Catholic Church. Or the Republican Party 

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