ARTICLE: LeVar Burton: Criticism Of Reading Rainbow Is ‘Bullsh*t’

[Ryan Goble]

Follow up interview to 

KICKSTARTER: Say What? Bring Reading Rainbow Back?

From Think Progress...

This is the conceptual point of interest:

At the time, John Grant, then head of content at WNED Buffalo,Reading Rainbow‘s home station, explained the decision both as a matter of money and a shift in priorities from “get kids to love to read” to “teach kids basic phonics and spelling.”