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re: Kickstarter Campaign to Revive ‘Reading Rainbow’
Posted on 5/29/14 at 12:34 pm to BlacknGold
Posted on 5/29/14 at 12:34 pm to BlacknGold
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theres only a handful of people that make a living off their youtube videos. you dont make that much on your videos.
The ones that make a living are doing something right. If this project does that, it will make that kind of money. I am sure he can easily get in the partnership status and get the upgrade pay per view very quickly as well where you make a lot more per view. He won't be getting the same rate as you or I starting a channel.
This post was edited on 5/29/14 at 12:40 pm
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Posted on 5/29/14 at 12:38 pm to Dam Guide
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Freakin LeVar Burton
do you really consider this guy a big celebrity. i honestly had no clue what his name was. hes just "the reading rainbow guy." he raised money to do a childrens program. what a monster.
you should start a kickstarter to stop the reading rainbow
This post was edited on 5/29/14 at 12:39 pm
Posted on 5/29/14 at 12:40 pm to Dam Guide
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Dam Guide
Dude. It's an entirely consumer based market. If people don't want to fund celebrities causes, they won't.
Without shite like this, I would have never gotten my Veronica Mars movie.
You must really suck at life.
Posted on 5/29/14 at 12:41 pm to BlacknGold
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do you really consider this guy a big celebrity. i honestly had no clue what his name was. hes just "the reading rainbow guy." he raised money to do a childrens program. what a monster. you should start a kickstarter to stop the reading rainbow
I don't consider him a big celebrity, but he has more connections. He could take Reading Rainbow to someone like Dolly Parton who gives lots to Tennessee for her children's reading program and get instant recognition and a meeting with her. He probably could get her to support it as well.
This post was edited on 5/29/14 at 12:42 pm
Posted on 5/29/14 at 12:41 pm to Dam Guide
Levar Burton isn't a multi-millionaire or anything...
Posted on 5/29/14 at 12:43 pm to FalseProphet
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Dude. It's an entirely consumer based market. If people don't want to fund celebrities causes, they won't. Without shite like this, I would have never gotten my Veronica Mars movie. You must really suck at life.
The Veronica Mars movie is the perfect example. You think I suck at life because I have a different opinion on crowd sourcing? Maybe you should examine your own if you have to resort to that because of a difference of opinion.
Posted on 5/29/14 at 12:45 pm to Dam Guide
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ou think I suck at life because I have a different opinion on crowd sourcing?
No. I think you suck at life because your opinion is worthless.
Posted on 5/29/14 at 12:47 pm to FalseProphet
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No. I think you suck at life because your opinion is worthless.
So is yours. We are both worthless peons that aren't worth the material we are made out of in this universe. Same with everyone else on this forum.
This post was edited on 5/29/14 at 12:48 pm
Posted on 5/29/14 at 12:55 pm to lsuwontonwrap
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Levar Burton isn't a multi-millionaire or anything...
not sure if sarcasm? he's worth about 6 million and lives in a 1.85 million dollar house
Posted on 5/29/14 at 12:59 pm to FalseProphet
I really think it's dumb that Mitt Romney wanted to get rid of funding for Sesame Street and people really hated that, but they'll raise all this money for Reading Rainbow in an instant.
This shows that you don't need the government to help with broadcast edu-programming...when the public will gladly and optionally put their money to use to the community/nation the way they see fit.
So, all you people that didn't like Romney's stance on that are hypocrites. Just saying.
This shows that you don't need the government to help with broadcast edu-programming...when the public will gladly and optionally put their money to use to the community/nation the way they see fit.
So, all you people that didn't like Romney's stance on that are hypocrites. Just saying.
Posted on 5/29/14 at 1:02 pm to BlacknGold
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do you really consider this guy a big celebrity. i honestly had no clue what his name was. hes just "the reading rainbow guy."
I won't chastise you for not watching Star Trek: The Next Generation, but everyone should watch Roots from start to finish, at least once.
Posted on 5/29/14 at 1:04 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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everyone should watch Roots from start to finish, at least once.
that sounds awful. is 12 years a slave enough?
Posted on 5/29/14 at 1:04 pm to Dam Guide
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He could take Reading Rainbow to someone like Dolly Parton who gives lots to Tennessee for her children's reading program and get instant recognition and a meeting with her. He probably could get her to support it as well.
Dolly would then try to insert herself into the project. Presumably that's why he went the kickstarter route, to retain control. I also wonder if $500k is all he needs or if that's the seed money he needs to get the project off the ground. Again, I don't see why Amazon wouldn't sponsor the show for just $500k with the only strings attached being to push the Kindle as a reading device. Now if he needs much more than $500k then they probably would start talking about things like first dibs for streaming on Prime and other terms he might not be agreeable to.
Posted on 5/29/14 at 1:08 pm to Fewer Kilometers
I'm not a huge fan of celebrities using Kickstarter. But it gives fans a way to closely interact with their media favorites and a means for them to directly contribute to the art. I'd support the artists that I enjoy.. (Zach Braff using it to fund his cookie-cutter indie film... I think that was him trying to be as "indie" as possible. He could get funding after his award winning Garden State.)
But a celeb using Kickstarter for a cause like Reading Rainbow is something entirely different. I give money to LPB specifically because there should be shows like Sesame Street and Reading Rainbow available for free to all kids. Good for Burton for using his celebrity for a good cause, instead of begging for cash to fund Geordi LaForge vs Godzilla (which I would totally watch).
But a celeb using Kickstarter for a cause like Reading Rainbow is something entirely different. I give money to LPB specifically because there should be shows like Sesame Street and Reading Rainbow available for free to all kids. Good for Burton for using his celebrity for a good cause, instead of begging for cash to fund Geordi LaForge vs Godzilla (which I would totally watch).
Posted on 5/29/14 at 1:09 pm to TigerinATL
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Dolly would then try to insert herself into the project. Presumably that's why he went the kickstarter route, to retain control.
Not necessarily a bad thing, but your probably right about the control aspect.
Dolly has done it right, but she is also worth several hundreds of millions of dollars so she could do it on her own. She took her little book project that was giving kids books just in her home town, then went regional, then went the entire state of Tennessee, and now I think she even does it nationally. The imagination library would of been a great partner for reading rainbow.
This post was edited on 5/29/14 at 1:10 pm
Posted on 5/29/14 at 1:10 pm to Dam Guide
Some one please comment on my Mitt Romney rant to tell me I'm not crazy/reaching.
Posted on 5/29/14 at 1:14 pm to Dam Guide
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I don't like this type of use of kickstarter. Someone like Levar Burton should be able to get funds from other sources instead of milking the people. Would never fund something like this.
As Festus said, it's essentially the same as funding public broadcasting. Except in this form you have the choice of not funding it if you don't choose to do so. If I can throw a couple bucks at providing a free educational resource for teachers to use in their classroom and parents to use at home, then I'm all for it.
Posted on 5/29/14 at 1:16 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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I'm not a huge fan of celebrities using Kickstarter. But it gives fans a way to closely interact with their media favorites and a means for them to directly contribute to the art. I'd support the artists that I enjoy.. (Zach Braff using it to fund his cookie-cutter indie film... I think that was him trying to be as "indie" as possible. He could get funding after his award winning Garden State.)
But a celeb using Kickstarter for a cause like Reading Rainbow is something entirely different. I give money to LPB specifically because there should be shows like Sesame Street and Reading Rainbow available for free to all kids. Good for Burton for using his celebrity for a good cause, instead of begging for cash to fund Geordi LaForge vs Godzilla (which I would totally watch).
all of this
Posted on 5/29/14 at 1:16 pm to Pectus
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So, all you people that didn't like Romney's stance on that are hypocrites. Just saying.
On the flipside, there are probably some solid PBS programming out there that would never get funded via Kickstarter if it wasn't as popular as Reading Rainbow. So I can't blame people for going against Romney's stance.
Happy now?
Posted on 5/29/14 at 1:18 pm to BlacknGold
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everyone should watch Roots from start to finish, at least once.
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that sounds awful. is 12 years a slave enough?
12 Years a Slave doesn't have roles played by Lou Grant, Lucas McCain, and Ben Cartwright.
Plus: Ben Vereen.
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