End of the Rainbow

Welcome, Fall 2009 Mass Comm 101 students! It is here that I will give brief summaries to the medianotes and links to the original source material.

'Reading Rainbow' had a tremendous 26-season run on PBS and cultivated a love of books among two generations of children. According to the following National Public Radio story, 'Reading Rainbow' ended in part because of a philosophical change over what television can do to turn children into readers.

In class, the discussion focused mostly on what children and adults learn--both positive and negative things--from television.