I know you all have bigger fish to fry right now, and I do too, so I'll be brief.

Just heard on NPR.  PBS is cancelling this great PBS show that's been on the air since 1983.  Only Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street have been on PBS longer.  I don't really have time right now to do more than inform you all and hope some of you will start posting links and ideas.  I'm interested in helping to save RR with the 5 or 10 minutes I can spare here and there, but I'm broke.  So I'm at a loss as to what to do.  PBS and CPB aren't renewing the funding for RR, due to some Bush43 shift in Edu policy toward phonics and spelling; apparently, the show's budget is a few hundred K per year, NPR didn't give an exact figure.

TPM is not my personal army, I know.  So please help this discussion if you care about this show, and if you have time.  The best idea I could come up with in five minutes is to get a few kids' book publishers to chip in a penny or two for every signature we can get on an online petition.  Setup a website with email address verification or something like that.  Then start hitting the blogs with the link.  Half of that stuff I don't know how to do, and I don't have the time to do it either.  But I could use any help or ideas you folks have.  Thanks.