Junkyard wars was [rescue] Sun Ray Thoughts?

[Michael A. Turner]

	The reason for that is something that shocked me when I first heard
it. Junkyard wars (scrap heap challenge) are not game shows. They are
educational programming. Those sneaky brits have found a way to make kids
and adults sit in front of a TV show while they give them a lecture on how
the steam engine works, and not only sit their but like it. I was almost
offended when someone pointed that out, almost like geek brainwashing,
luckly I was already part of the cult and unaffected :-) 

Michael A. Turner
Systems Engineer
WHRO
michael.turner at whro.org
http://www.whro.org


-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Mosiejczuk [mailto:kurt at csh.rit.edu]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 9:15 AM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: Junkyard wars was [rescue] Sun Ray Thoughts?


On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Chad Fernandez wrote:

> You can tell just by watching the show that materials are planted.  They
> find stuff in matching sets!  Like when they built those pulling
> tractors.  Good show, but I haven't seen it lately.

That and the fact that for the tractor pull show they explicitly said
that the monster truck tires were donated by a company? =)

They've always "salted" the junkyard.

--Kurt

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