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Letters
This Weeks Letters
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July 14, 2005
Well I'd only gotten to page 5 of this week's
Maui Time
and I already had to respond. First of all, thank you for your editorial about Public Television ("Kill Public Television!" June 30, 2005). I agree there are—and were—some great shows on PBS. However, when I started getting emails from various progressive groups a few weeks ago about "saving Big Bird," I just wanted to gag. As the mother of a 7 and 8 year old, I have watched a lot of PBS "educational" programming.
And while it is certainly better than everything else targeting children these days, I found it rather disgusting that liberal public interest groups were asking me to spend my limited free time to contact my congress people about saving
Teletubbies
,
Clifford
,
Arthur
and
Sesame Street
. (I have to say I'm particularly disgusted by
Sesame Street
. It's changed a lot since I was a kid and become totally commercial—and is more about pushing media than education.)
And yes, you're right—there's all kinds of corporate, right wing programming on now as well. Anyway, considering issues such as the war in Iraq, Social Security, loss of civil rights, drilling in ANWR, etc.—the campaign to save public television was irritating at best. Here's a radical idea. Just throw out your TV. That's what we did.
Congratulations on the great article on GMO corn ("Corn Pone?" June 23, 2005). This is such an important subject. I'm glad to see the island's only newspaper with balls print such a timely article on this crucial topic. Keep up the good work. Your newspaper is great!
To the individual who wrote the "Love it for Real" letter that was printed in the June 23, 2005 issue: please do a little homework before making comments that make you look like a "know it all" without a clue.
The Maui News
is a DAILY PAPER and part of that is to report breaking news.
HOWEVER, oh sweet innocent one who loves it all for real, realize that
Maui Time Weekly
—HELLO—is a weekly publication, and therefore does not specialize in breaking news, but whatever the paper wishes to report on that is of interest to the community. OH AND BY THE WAY,
Maui Time Weekly
is not in direct competition with
The Maui News
. Each paper is marketed differently… Take this for what it is... a lesson in thinking things through before opening mouth and inserting foot. Always a great lesson in life.
The Editor responds:
Actually, the June 23 letter writer was just being sarcastic, which both
Maui Time
and its parent corporation Maui Time Productions whole-heartedly supports. Also, even though we are a weekly and
The Maui News
is a daily, on occasion we still compete for stories and advertising dollars. But thanks for your interest!
MTW
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