Awww........

Little Noah, 5 years old, wrote a letter to PBS with a dollar. How sweet.....

PBS response:

Dear Jimmy,

From all of us here at PBS, thank you for the dollar. You see, the way we work is that we are funded by the government which uses you and your mommy's tax dollars. So you sending us a dollar just saves us the trouble of taking it from the government. Thanks! We look forward to good little future taxpayers like you, Ralphie.

As far as your "Super Hero Rescue Squad", PBS children's programming is very educational. Our programming focuses on teaching children the alphabet and making sure they grow up to trust authority figures. Besides, our children's programming that you pay for, isn't even MADE in the U.S.! HIT Entertainment, which creates Barney, is based in England! (http://www.hitentertainment.com/corporate/home.html) and Cookie Jar Entertainment, responsible for a number of kids shows such as Caillou, are based in Toronto, Canada!( http://www.thecookiejarcompany.com/cj_contact.php) That's north of us!

You see, we already have our own Super Heroes. And we here at PBS make sure you know all about them. For instance, we are showing Tina Fey's reception for the Mark Twain Award for American Humor (http://video.pbs.org/video/1642947954/), for you know, destroying the image of the first female VP candidate in decades, and possible future first female Presidential candidate ever! We here at PBS enjoy raising those kinds of Super Heroes up, and giving them airtime paid by your mommy and daddy, Johnny!

But, we know that another one of our responsibilities here at PBS is to instill the proud values that have held our taxpayers....err....country together for, what, like 700 years. That is why we feel the responsibility to air programs such as Gun Control, in Religion and Ethics Newsweekly (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/january-21-2011/gun-control/7950/). We want our future revenue streams informed, Frankie!

So, in conclusion, PBS will gladly accept your contribution of one US dollar, because it is always nice to have secondary revenue streams that are in addition to your mommy's and daddy's tax dollars. And, it's not like we wouldn't have gotten it somehow anyways.

Keep watching PBS, young Gregory!

Dewey Cheatham

Ombudsman for Public Broadcasting System


Edit 1: Jan. 26,2011 - This website appeared today. Glad our tax dollars....er......Noah's dollar went to the webmaster to create this.