Mister Rogers helped plump up PBS's funding like one motherfucker, wonder why he never had a catchy song about THAT, ha ha:
Mister Rogers and PBS funding
In 1969, Rogers appeared before the
United States Senate Subcommittee on Communications. His goal was to support funding for
PBS and the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in response to significant proposed cuts. In about six minutes of testimony, Rogers spoke of the need for social and emotional education that public television provided. He passionately argued that alternative television programming like his
Neighborhood helped encourage children to become happy and productive citizens, sometimes opposing less positive messages in media and in popular culture. He even recited the lyrics to one of his songs.
The chairman of the subcommittee,
John O. Pastore, was not previously familiar with Rogers' work, and was sometimes described as gruff and impatient. However, he reported that the testimony had given him goosebumps, and declared, "I think it's wonderful. Looks like you just earned the $20 million." The subsequent congressional appropriation, for 1971, increased PBS funding from $9 million to $22 million.
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Some other fairly recent political stuff ole Mr. Rogers was involved in getting passed before he himself passed:
which can be found........
>>>HERE<<<
The NFIB (National Federation of Independent Business) ultimately uses
>>>PACS<<< that influence who gets supported in a campaign and how much they get:
Fair and balanced support huh?
Rogers meeting with President
George W. Bush in 2002.
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