{"id":308,"date":"2002-10-10T09:13:22","date_gmt":"2002-10-10T14:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2002\/10\/10\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-22T10:49:30","modified_gmt":"2005-10-22T14:49:30","slug":"cartoon-hostility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2002\/10\/10\/cartoon-hostility\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon Hostility"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t understand the tone of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/globe\/magazine\/2002\/1006\/coverstory.htm\">this article<\/a>. [The article is about PBS airing more animated shows vs. live action shows for children.]  Througout the article there is this constant undercurrent of hostility towards animation.  I came away with the impression that the author felt these shows were no good simply because they were animated.  Cartoons are worthless!   This is really troublesome, especially since the article was probably attempting to highlight several points that are actually important: 1) To be educational, you need to have a balanced mix of pro-social programming (ie, programs that teach people how to get along and behave themselves) and informational programming (ie, programs that teach you how to count and speak spanish). 2) You shouldn&#8217;t take a good idea and run it into the ground.  Of course, item 2 is not a lesson that anyone seems to understand.  Land Before Time XXV, coming soon to a video store near you.  Find it on the shelf next to Snow White 2: Dopey&#8217;s Revenge.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, Arthur is really a wonderful show.  And the books themselves are pro-social, so that&#8217;s where it came from.  When they made the Magic School Bus into a cartoon, they kept the theme of those books too &#8212; science facts and information.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t understand the tone of this article. [The article is about PBS airing more animated shows vs. live action shows for children.] Througout the article there is this constant undercurrent of hostility towards animation. I came away with the impression that the author felt these shows were no good simply because they were animated. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}