Sesame Street, Last Gasp of the Monoculture, Faces Existential Threat
For decades, shows like Sesame Street practically raised many kids. Today, not even Elmo is safe from the nation's culture ...
What's happening on 'Sesame Street'? Elmo, Big Bird and friends face uphill battle amid budget cuts and congressional spotlight
The long-running children's show is looking for a new distributor as its 55th season airs on Max.
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Why Does Big Bird Look So Sad?
PBS, which had aired “Sesame Street” from the start, would then air them many months after they appeared on HBO. Image A “Sesame Street” segment being filmed in 2019, when a deal with HBO ...
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How ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’ Introduced the ‘First Lady of Children’s Music’ to a Large National Audience
When musician Ella Jenkins appeared on the show, she brought Black diasporic music and her signature songs to televisions ...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene makes PBS editor squirm as she's grilled over whether Sesame Street is 'communist' in wild exchange
A poster board highlighting a drag show performer, a pressing inquiry into the sexuality of Sesame Street puppet duo Bert ... holding a poster with images of Democrats like Kamala Harris, Barack ...
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'Sesame Street' in trouble? Marjorie Taylor Greene-led committee wants to defund NPR, PBS
In her opening of the hearing, Greene threw several criticisms at the heads of NPR and PBS calling them "radical, Left-wing echo chambers for a narrow audience of mostly wealthy, white, urban ...
'Fire Elon, Save Elmo': Congressmen Challenge DOGE at Public Funding Hearing
California Congressman Robert Garcia invoked Sesame Street characters to make his point at a Senate hearing on Wednesday, March 26.The hearing, hosted by a subcommittee of the so-called Department of ...
Republicans accuse NPR, PBS of bias at House hearing; Democrats rebuke it as a partisan attack
Republicans accused public media outlets NPR and PBS of bias at a House subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, while Democrats ...
As Republicans Denounce NPR and PBS, Democrats Mock Hearing
The leaders of the biggest public media networks in the United States defended their programming in a hearing on funding for ...