The "sex-education" episode of Glee last week reminded me of a mini-documentary series I produced on WERC in Birmingham in the late 1970's called "Peoples' Journal".
Each week we'd focus on a single subject, with one part airing each day. We covered topics varying from Blue Laws to the then-extreme sport of parachuting.
And one week we focused on the subject of sex education.
The reaction was, well, amazing. More letters (remember those? You actually had to take pen and ink and paper and use the mail?) There were lots of phone calls too, more than anything we'd done before...much of it negative. So after day one we pulled the series and solicited comments from people. Should we resume it? Or not?
We never aired the rest of the four parts. But there was a sex education of sorts for me in the experience. You are in the Deep South, son, and we don't talk about sex here. Not on the radio, anyway. No openly, Not in a serious way.
And I'm not sure much has changed.
[The Monday Morning Media Memo is a regular feature of this blog]
Each week we'd focus on a single subject, with one part airing each day. We covered topics varying from Blue Laws to the then-extreme sport of parachuting.
And one week we focused on the subject of sex education.
The reaction was, well, amazing. More letters (remember those? You actually had to take pen and ink and paper and use the mail?) There were lots of phone calls too, more than anything we'd done before...much of it negative. So after day one we pulled the series and solicited comments from people. Should we resume it? Or not?
We never aired the rest of the four parts. But there was a sex education of sorts for me in the experience. You are in the Deep South, son, and we don't talk about sex here. Not on the radio, anyway. No openly, Not in a serious way.
And I'm not sure much has changed.
[The Monday Morning Media Memo is a regular feature of this blog]
I guess those fundamentalists have never read the Song of Solomon, in the Bible.
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