Another year with no MDA Telethon

[Mikey]

The MDA Telethon and labor day seemed inseparable.

Still burns me up what they did to Jerry

[EmergencyIan]

I agree, Mikey!

- Ian

[palitoy]

It felt like the claxon of doom to me, "School starts tomorrow!".

[SainthoodDenied]

I haven't had t.v. here at home for 3 years but when I did I've always watched alot of the telethon since I was a kid.

[Hector]

I didn't even know it had been yanked in the first place.

[Hector]

I just read up on it.

Well, Jerry did retire from it in 2011, the man is 89 years old.

Appreantly, even people with muscular dystrophy criticized the telethon...I'm not going to weigh an opinion on it...but here's an article about it...

http://www.oregonlive.com/tv/2015/09/what_happened_to_the_jerry_lew.html

[palitoy]

We're at the point where we don't watch telethons anymore, the ALS icebucket challenge is the new telethon IMO.

The last time I saw the MD telethon, it was on one local channel. I have 1200 channels now, pretty easy to miss.

[MIB41]

^^^ I agree. I think telethons are a charitable tool from the past. There are SO many ways to raise money now, that telethons seem kind of passé these days.

[Mikey]

I haven't watched it in years either, but it was nice just knowing it was still around as a remnant of the past.

Kinda like Sesame Street