[Today: rest day, Yesterday: 4 miles]<\/p>\n
I was talking to someone online today about PBS and NPR.\u00a0 He’s an insider and knows how they operate and what their challenges are.<\/p>\n
I don’t watch much broadcast television so I don’t have an opinion about PBS.\u00a0 I do watch some of their stuff in from Netflix.\u00a0 Actually, BBC stuff passed down.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I told him my consternation about the political position of NPR:\u00a0 Here is an organization using an antiquated medium (radio) to reach an audience with tastes ranging toward the historical (classical music, radio “magazine” shows, and world news) and relying on voluntary contributions of individuals\u00a0 (a conservative activity).\u00a0 But at the same time they have a liberal bent in their presentation and worldview and occasionally outright mockery of conservatives.\u00a0 They get some pushback about government funding and hunker down as if evil Republicans are out to get them.<\/p>\n
The picture is anachronistic.<\/p>\n
But that lead me to remember a bit of PBS from my youth.\u00a0 The “public” TV station at the time was run by the Des Moines Public Schools and the callsign was KDPS\u00a0 (DPS, get it?).\u00a0 They mostly had classroom type programming on.\u00a0 But in the afternoon they had a “children’s” show called Kadipus Land.\u00a0 It was kind of like a Captain Kangroo thing.\u00a0 The leader was a guy called Supidak\u00a0 (Kadipus spelled backwards).<\/p>\n