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A Good Neighbor To Millions; Be Positive: TV pioneer Fred Rogers' message enriched generations of children.(LEADERS & SUCCESS)
Byline: IBD STAFF
Fred McFeely Rogers hated television when he first saw it in 1951. People putting each other down and calling it humor. Grown men throwing pies at each other. Bad slapstick humor. Garish, seemingly pointless, with lousy programming.
It was, he thought, the absolute worst thing he'd ever seen.
Rogers, then getting ready to enter Pittsburgh Theological Seminary to become a Presbyterian minister, could've shrugged off his distaste and gone on with his studies.
But he saw TV's potential: If it showed positive, educational programs, it could be used to make a difference in the lives of thousands.
Someone could take the raw material and burnish it into something worthwhile, Rogers thought.
Before his death at age 74 Thursday, Rogers did exactly that. Since 1967, the Latrobe, Pa., native hosted, wrote and produced the PBS children's show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood."
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