The Ever-So Anti-Commercial PBS
This post is inspired by a Radley Balko post, which says PBS has launched an anti-corporate web site called “Don’t Buy It.” The site says it is
a media literacy Web site for young people that encourages users to think critically about media and become smart consumers.
Uh-huh.
And in other, unrelated news:
My four-year old daughter watches almost no commercial television, but does watch PBS. (I think I just contradicted myself.) The other day she said she wanted to go to Chuck E. Cheese’s. Since we haven’t been there before, I asked her where she had heard about it. She said, in that sing-song voice kids use when they are repeating something they have heard a hundred times: “Chuck E. Cheese, proud sponsor of Sesame Street.”
Please tell me she doesn’t watch Boooooooobaaaahhhhhhhhhh.
http://www.boohbah.com/zone.html
I desperately lurch for the remote control so my child is not subjected to what is surely a plot to make him into a zombie.
Comment by dario — 6/1/2004 @ 1:52 pm
I think she’s seen that once or twice.
Comment by Patterico — 6/2/2004 @ 10:48 am