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I read somewhere that the Bad Orange Man cancelled gubbimint financial support for public programming grifts like PBS and The Children’s Television Workshop. I dunno how true it is and can’t be bothered to fact check it, because it was an article written by the usual media hysterics and lunatics.
I wonder: I’m so old and detached now… do kids even watch TV anymore? And if they do…would they still watch educational TV? Could productions like Sesame Street succeed and manage their own private funding themselves? I’d think that if they still had any relevance and presence in the world today - they should be able to migrate to Oy Toob or the streamers? I have no idea what kids life is or looks like now… I may as well be from another planet.
In the article I read, the effort seemed to be another hit piece on Blumpf. Ignoring the twaddle… was Sesame Street ever a worthwhile endeavour? My generation was called “the latch key kids”. I dunno if educational programming was less of an effort to educate and more an effort at babysitting? It worked well as a baby sitter; us little kids would shut right up and watch the friendly monsters learn the alphabet and sing and dance on TV while mom did house work or just took a well deserved coffee break from housework and the pandemonium of children. As older kids it was something to watch until the parents came home after work.
Last I heard, Jim Henson passed away, Burt and Earnie were gay, and there were more noggers n’ beaners and freaks on the Street than you could shake a stick at. I’m not sure I’d want a little one watching some of that stuff…? With the rampant blue and green hairs, the obese and spiteful fairies… I can only imagine what children’s programming looks like today. What does educational kids programming look like today to an adult? What do the kids make of it…?
I suppose it doesn’t matter. I am a Yesterday Man - irrelevant and left behind by the world years ago with no real say in the doings of the kids. Blumpf is even more obsolete than I am. I hope he has good young people to advise him on such things.
Here's to ya G!
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Sesame Street is the scare tactic used whenever PBS is threatened. However Sesame Street was the only commercially successful show and now privately owner, the Muppets by Disney and Sesame Street by Jim Henson's company. It is 100% not threatened by loss of government funding.
ReplyDeleteThat said, my grandkids watch various streaming shows on different platforms, stuff you've never heard of. I doubt any kids today watch Muppets. I don't even know how you'd go about watching PBS.
(((They))) are always testing new brainwashing Programs.
ReplyDeleteSesame Street was bought by HBO many years ago, and was shut down a couple years ago.
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