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The cat gifs are back! But still tune in to Post Election 2012 tonight at 7pm. Please.
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But she hasn’t changed?!
Gwen Ifill covering Rev. Jesse Jackson’s 1988 presidential campaign
Now that the election is over, send us your question for WYCC’s Post Election 2012, airing tomorrow night (11/8) at 7 p.m. We’ll let you know if your question makes the show!
Our host, veteran journalist Barbara Pinto, and our panel will be discussing the presidential, vice presidential and Illinois congressional (Distict 02, District 08, District 10 & District 11).
Tell us what you think on Twitter during the show! #postelection2012
The word of the month for November is:
ELECTION
What have your children learned about the presidential, vice presidential and congressional elections this year?
Note: WYCC PBS Chicago airs WordGirl on Saturday mornings at 9:30 a.m.
Um, can you believe we vote TOMORROW? Ask a question about the presidential, vice presidential, and Illinois congressional races on our Post Election 2012 website. We’ll let you know if your question makes the show.
WYCC PBS Chicago will hold a post-election special, hosted by veteran television journalist Barbara Pinto. During this hour-long program, political experts from print and news outlets, political science professors and representatives for the Democratic and Republican parties join us for a look back at these campaigns. From highlights of candidates on the campaign trails to the victory celebrations, we’re discussing it all.
Races to be discussed:
Join us on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 at 7 p.m. for WYCC PBS Chicago’s Post Election 2012. Let us know what you think on Twitter! #postelection2012
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Join us on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 at 7 p.m. CST for WYCC PBS Chicago’s Post Election 2012. Have a question about the presidential, vice presidential or four Illinois congressional races (listed below)? Post it on our website and we’ll let you know if it makes the show!
WYCC PBS Chicago will hold a post-election special, hosted by veteran television journalist Barbara Pinto. During this hour-long program, political experts from print and news outlets, political science professors and representatives for the Democratic and Republican parties join us for a look back at the presidential and Illinois congressional races. From highlights of candidates on the campaign trails to the victory celebrations, we’re discussing it all.
Races to be discussed:
Kenneth Shinabery, who has worked in film, television, and commerical production in New York City for the past 13 years, recently moved to Germany to work on a blog. Read his reaction to what has been happening in U.S. politics since he left:
“On Oct. 3, 2012, during the first presidential debate, a statement was made that was heard throughout the world. This one remark ignited a response by thousands via social media. Facebook, Twitter, and even Instagram were buzzing over Mitt Romney’s statement: ‘I’m going to stop the subsidy to PBS.’
Most Americans grew up with shows like Sesame Street, Mister Roger’s Neighborhood, The Electric Company, and Captain Kangaroo. And one would imagine that so did Mitt Romney. PBS was founded in 1970 and shortly after it merged with Educational Television Stations in 1973. With more than 300 member stations, it reaches thousands of homes in America, thus making educational and informational programming readily available to the public. Because of this, PBS is an ‘American Institution.’
Besides bringing children’s programming to our homes, PBS also carries such shows as Masterpiece Theater, Frontline, NOVA, American Experience, Nature, etc. Thus, PBS is a network that the entire family can enjoy. And unlike its commercial broadcasting counterparts, PBS is able to broadcast its programming without commercial interruptions.
How does a network that does not own any of its programming and individual stations bring us commercial-free media? PBS receives its funding from a variety of sources, including: member station dues, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, government agencies, foundations, corporations, and private citizens. Annual federal funding equals $1.35 per American, which is just a drop in the bucket. Additionally, producers are able to seek production funding through PBS. PBS has stated that the government appropriation ‘equals about 15 percent of our system’s revenues.’ However, PBS has pointed out that for some of the smaller stations, it amounts to 40 or 50 percent of their budgets. Thus, a cut to funding to PBS would mean several stations in rural areas would go off the air, according to Paula Kerger, PBS chief executive.
In essence, those that would hurt the most from cuts to PBS are the children. Many children have the ability to attend nursery school. However, in today’s economy there are several families who cannot afford to send their children to nursery school. PBS has filled this gap by providing programming that not only helps bring education into the home, but stimulates the desire to learn and prepares children for school. Public broadcasting maintains that it has the best interests of children as its sole objective.
Because Big Bird was referenced during the debate, Saturday Night Live had Big Bird as a guest for his response. Big Bird then said, ‘My bed time is usually 7:45, but I was really tired yesterday and fell asleep at 7! Did I miss anything last night?’ In true form of a character that is supposed to be 6 years old, his innocence showed through. This statement probably even holds true with many of his young viewers.
Like many Americans, I grew up with PBS and truly support their efforts to provide programming that is not only educational, but has moral lessons. Having worked in children’s programming for networks such as Nickelodeon, I feel that PBS has led the way in educational programming. I believe that they have held true to their goals of providing unique and trend-setting programming that brings knowledge to its viewers. Thus, PBS is an ‘American Institution’ worth fighting for!”
Sources:
http://170millionamericans.org/
http://www.denverpost.com/politics-national/2012/10/big-bird-mitt-romney-and-how-pbs-is-actually-funded/
http://www.pbs.org/producing/funding/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Broadcasting_Service
If you would like to be a guest blogger for WYCC, please type your post (250 words or less) in the body of an e-mail and send it to info@wycc.org. We will review your submission and get back to you. We reserve the right to edit for spelling and grammar. The views of WYCC’s guest bloggers do not necessarily indicate the views of WYCC.
Binders of women: How the U.S. Presidential Debate played online
Move over Big Bird, these binders are full of women. The offhand phrase from former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on Tuesday night was one of many topics that pinballed across social networks, as users instantly weighed in on moments from his debate with President Barack Obama.
- BINDERS FULL OF WOMEN: Yes, it now has its own Tumbler, Binders Full of Women and Twitter account, @Romneys-Binder, with more than 13,000 followers before the debate ended. On Facebook, it has nearly 20 different Facebook pages, including one with nearly 136,000 likes. The parodies started pouring in after Romney said that while he was governor of Massachusetts, he sought qualified women for his administration. Romney said he went to “a number of women’s groups and said, `Can you help us find folks,’ and they brought us whole binders full of women.”
Don’t interrupt me while I’m interrupting
They came at each other with hammer and tong, with verbal interruptions and nonverbal injections aplenty.Joe Biden, current Vice President, and Paul Ryan, Congressman from Wisconsin met last night for the first and only debate between the Vice Presidential candidates. And they spent a good deal of their 90 minutes together not waiting respectfully for each other to finish their respective thoughts.
In a project called “Listen to Me” the PBS NewsHour is collecting short videos from around the country in which citizen reporters ask people in their community questions about their attitudes going into the 2012 Election. The goal of these videos is to give a wide range of Americans an opportunity to voice their concerns and create a culturally and geographically diverse tapestry of responses.
Students at Richwood High School in West Virginia, a PBS Student Reporting Labs site, put together their own Listen to Me video, where they asked classmates to speak about what issues were most important to them in 2012 and their hopes for the future.
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Check out this Huffington Post Impact article on ways to save Big Bird.
You guys are wrong for this one.
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An extremely rough cut as we call for guest bloggers (what, we have a production today). Here are the details:
Hi PBS viewers! Big Bird and PBS funding are clearly hot topics right now on social media. We want to give you the opportunity to express how you feel! Type your guest blog post in the body of e-mail and send it to info@wycc.org. Try to keep it to 250 words if you can, and keep it appropriate. We’ll review it and let you know if your post gets published! We do reserve the right to edit for grammar and spelling. Happy blogging, and as always, support your local PBS station.
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