WGBH, home of sesame street, publishes a "members magazine" called explore ! (no shit, they actually have the exclamation point )
The Feb 2010 issue has a picture of two of WGBH's female news persons - Emily Rooney and Callie Crossley.
Now for the sleazy part: the picture of Ms. Rooney has been airbrushed to remove 20 years; she looks like a 30 something.
When you see Ms Rooney on her show, I would say she looks to be in her 60s
Anyway you slice it, reality is taking a hit at 'GBH
Although it is hard to imagine that a magazine from WGBH, with it's liberal members who drive Chevy suburban with ecology group stickers, is not printed on recycled paper from sustainability managed forests, with organic heirloom soybean soy ink, I can't find the any indication in the magazine - maybe they saved ink not printing that little bit of info.
Course, the main role of PBS is to salvage the rep of for profit companies after they do bad. Get convicted ? Just buy some time on the mcneill lehrer snooze hour to repair your image (Archer Daniel Midlands is the poster child for this).
I mean, they carry ads from Car Companies touting green automobiles. Thats like a fun prision; private cars, are, by definition, evil and destructive, and probably the most damaging thing you can do to our planet is buy and use a personal automobile (although, to be fair, the latte sipping WGBH members take that challenge seriously, what with the enormous vacation homes they build in the country side, our current MA Gov, the Honorable Deval Patrick, wasted the coutnry side of western MA to build some obscenely huge cabin...)
Saturday, February 13, 2010
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