Long ago when I first became a sales engineer and frequently spoke with the public, the marketing director offered to send me to “media school” to polish my PR skills. I wouldn’t look like a deer in the headlights when the camera lights clicked on. The company imploded not long afterward and I never made it to “school.” I could’ve used those skills last week.
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February 21, 2008
Kids TV shows
I picked up a couple new episodes of Popular Mechanics for Kids, the outstanding science TV show for kids. Boy, kids TV shows have come a long way since I was a kid.
Then again, there were some exceptional shows, ones that stand the test of time. These are the ones that didn’t talk down to their audience, though the audience wasn’t always kids. The Flintstones, for instance, aired in prime time for an adult audience. The Flintstones would’ve been nowhere if Bugs Bunny and other Looney Tunes characters hadn’t blazed a trail almost thirty years prior with cartoons created for grown-up moviegoers and characters patterned after the Marx Brothers, among others.
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