Perhaps....The money always goes to the wrong channels but I was just a bit
surprised to see it on PBS. Sad irony.
Thanks for your insights....
peace,
R. Scott
framboise@mindspring.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leslie N. Shill" <icehouse@redshift.com>
To: "R. Scott" <deebull@mindspring.com>
Cc: "acid" <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: Ken Burns on Charlie Rose
> No, I think you have it wrong, if you don't mind my saying so, what you
are
> seeing is the result of the gutting of any sort of budgets that helped
keep
> non-profit broadcasting without having to see the intrusion of corporate
> America. This is precisely what was intended to happen once the budget of
> CPB was cut! This is one of the few first world countries that seems
> a d a m EMAIL souljazzantly opposed to supporting it's own cultural heritage, despite the
fact
> that it can well afford it, hell! orgs like the NRA are better funded than
> many cultural orgs could ever hope to be. What you are seeing is just the
> beginning of the corporatization of the once free and cultural side of
> broadcasting and with the full onset of that, we will see things slanted
> more and more until it all sounds like the corporate icons want it to
sound
> within the parameters that are defined by these sponsors. It is, to me at
> least, a crumbling of something great, it will be up to people like us to
> attempt to find ways to extrapolate these elements of the cultural
heritage
> and to extend them on a daily basis into people's lives so that they may
get
> a glimmer of how important many of these things actually are. In an era
> where the various arms of governments seem more inclined to build more
> prisons than schools, it should not be that surprising. What does alarm me
> is that while so many of the internet newly rich have not tried to support
> what are the underpinnings of their own world and it is only a matter of
> time before we are paying to send each email and our choices on the
internet
> start to be dictated to by major corporate interests. It is true, the
symbol
> of America is the dollar sign, even the venerable BBC broadcasts here in a
> stilted way to cash in on the focus on coin.
>
> These signs at the beginning and the end of programs like this are merely
> the first signposts on the road to a stark cultural environment. It's yet
> another reason why lists like this one are so vital, to keep at least some
> of the balls in the air just not mine! (pardon this crudity, I could not
> resist!). Ken Burns has ahd to assembel something that must have had many
> considerations budget wise, from licensing to many other facets, only the
> corporations can now afford to support these sorts of activities and they
> will only do it if there is a clearly definable and visible benefit, like
> getting the minutes at the beginning and the end of the show!
>
> GEEZ - indeed!
>
> leslie/The Power of Sound/www.kazu.org/Tues, Wed, Thurs 8-10 PST
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: R. Scott <framboise@mindspring.com>
> To: Steve Catanzaro <stevencatanzaro@sprintmail.com>; Nathaniel Rahav
> <nat@rhythmlove.com>; <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 5:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Ken Burns on Charlie Rose
>
>
> > Here's an excellent point. I sat waiting for the thing to start and had
to
> > wait 10 minutes because of corporate advertising. And the commercial for
> the
> > "product" at the end......geez!
> >
> > The symbol of America is a dollar sign.
> >
> > peace,
> > R. Scott
> > framboise@mindspring.com
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Steve Catanzaro" <stevencatanzaro@sprintmail.com>
> > To: "Nathaniel Rahav" <nat@rhythmlove.com>; <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 12:34 PM
> > Subject: Re: Ken Burns on Charlie Rose
> >
> >
> > > Nat wrote;
> > >
> > > The whole thing is definitely a labor of love and not a commercial
> > venture,
> > > > which immediately increases its credibility thousandfold.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Don't kid yourself! I have never seen so much ancillary packaging for
a
> > PBS
> > > production. Videos, DVD's, Books, CD's.... and check out the gigantic
GM
> > > spots. "Public" broadcasting? Kind of laughable.
> > >
> > > Burns may be passionate, but he'll probably make more money off of
this
> > one
> > > thing than Art Tatum made in his whole career....
> > >
> >
>
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