TV To Encourage Volunteerism This Week

COMMENTS (10)

• I’m surprised you haven’t mentioned the criticism of this initiative, which got a lot of play this week. Should our government institutions be so incestuously intertwined with the entertainment biz?

  http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/10/15/leaked-memo-reveals-the-white-house-has-control-of-your-television-set/

  Comment by Dan — Monday October 19, 2009 @ 3:48pm PDT  Reply to this post

• so good to see all the networks uniting to spread the message of volunteering…something that in light of the recession, doesn’t even cost a cent and can do a world of good!

  Comment by Audrey — Monday October 19, 2009 @ 4:10pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Volunteer 1 hour a day to helping stop the multi-national studio pipeline from producing garbage. Think of the positive effect you could have on millions of people. Imagine what if people never had to watch movies such as waterworld etc, you could save each movie goer 2 hrs of their time X millions of people. Wow think of how much that would accomplish. What would those people have done with that time, and that money? Contribute your effort today.

  Comment by volunteer — Monday October 19, 2009 @ 4:39pm PDT  Reply to this post

• More liberal initiatives invading my TV watching. 30 Rock was almost unbearable last week. “The Responsibility Project” my ass. Cut taxes and get people jobs.

  Comment by John K — Monday October 19, 2009 @ 5:17pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Nice to see egos being checked at the door (at least for a brief minute) to spread a good message.

  Comment by Anony — Monday October 19, 2009 @ 5:22pm PDT  Reply to this post

• But who can afford to volunteer in this economy?

  Comment by Geez — Monday October 19, 2009 @ 8:59pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Maybe Jeffie Zucker will volunteer at the unemployment office 168 hours a week.
  Now that would improve lots of peoples lives!

  Comment by Unindicted Co-Conspirator — Monday October 19, 2009 @ 9:38pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Yeah, John K., you tell ‘em– those dirty libs with their “volunteering” and “community organizing” can go straight to hell. I mean, every episode of prime time television devoted to public service and selflessness is one less episode devoted to real American endeavors, like shooting people with guns and teenagers having sex with eachother. What, pray-tell, do taxes (which, assuming you haven’t been paying attention, have actually decreased for middle class taxpayers) and jobs (which, assuming once again you haven’t been paying attention, have been declining since 2007, when Bush was still in office) have to do with encouraging people to do something for the people around them?

  Comment by Dave — Tuesday October 20, 2009 @ 1:02am PDT  Reply to this post

• Amazing how we all lay down and lick the boots of the government when we agree with it. The right reaction to the White House “request” to insert propaganda messages into each and every show is to tell them to go to hell. The next “request” will not be for something so seemingly benign but will insist on “Cap in Trade,” Global Warming complete with a pitch to buy Gore’s book, and of course vote the “right” way next time; eventually there will be no next time. The purpose of media is to “speak the truth to power” and if you don’t see this administration in the birth throes of becoming a thugocracy complete with the cowardly cuddling up to it so as not to be deprived of some kind of subsidy, then you are the problem.

  Comment by Howard Veit — Tuesday October 20, 2009 @ 10:03am PDT  Reply to this post

• Golly, without Hollywood and my government I wouldn’t know that I have the right to vote, school is good, bullies are bad, and that volunteering during work hours will make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Still not clear on the drug hypocrisy message, though, but hey, keep spending my tax dollars! That’s what they’re for, right? Please continue to tell me what to do, how to think and how to feel. You obviously know better than I. I bow to your moral and intellectual superiority.

  Comment by Candice — Tuesday October 20, 2009 @ 4:36pm PDT  Reply to this post