Re: Ken Burns on Charlie Rose

From: R. Scott (framboise@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Jan 10 2001 - 10:09:36 CET

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    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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