Fred Rogers

Name	Occupation	Possible influence	Facts & Analysis
Fred Rogers	Neighbor	Make-believe	In 1963 Fred Rogers began construction on a fictional kingdom that would reign until his retirement from television in 2001. Unlike most puppet-states that deceive citizens, Mr. Rogers was adamant that viewers (who were mostly impressionable children) be fully informed and counseled as to the true nature of its imaginary inhabitants. While serving as CEO of Family Communications, Rogers drew a modest but comfortable $139,000 in salary.  Fred Rogers' career-long exploitation of fantasy was a model in ethical pretense and illusion.  Perhaps one may credited his training as a Presbyterian minister for such values... or perhaps that was just him.