Posted on 08/27/2015 3:46:32 AM PDT by grundle
In this video, liberal Rebecca Watson praises HBO for funding new episodes of Sesame Street, which it will let PBS air for free after nine months. The number of new episodes produced per year is also getting bigger because of this deal with HBO.
I agree with Ms. Watson that this is a good idea. She admits that rich kids will get to see the new episodes nine months earlier than poor kids, but also says that this is not a problem. I praise her for seeing this as a win-win situation instead of as a class-warfare type thing. I wish more liberals shared her way of thinking.
I myself grew up watching Sesame Street, Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, The Electric Company, 3-2-1 Contact, and other educational shows on PBS, and I am definitely a better person for having done so. Perhaps this makes me a “bad” libertarian, but I can’t think of any practical reason to oppose government funded public television. In theory, libertarians such as myself are supposed to be against it. But I believe that in this particular case, real world evidence proves that the theory is wrong. The financial cost of public television, as a percentage of the federal budget, has always been trivial, and the educational benefits of public television over the decades have been enormous. I am glad that I, as well as millions of other people, watched it when we were children, and if that required the use of taxpayers’ money, then so be it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_6MS3QDnOI
So....Enquiring minds want to know......will Big Bird’s Feathers now be black?
Or....just Gaynebow Color stripes all over....
We have 40 years of Sesame Street in the can, more than enough to teach kids their A B C s and counting numbers for a lifetime. Why do we need new ones, except for new markering opportunities?
Even when I was a hippie back in the 1970s, I didn’t like Sesame Street. There was always something queer (original meaning) about it, by my reckoning.
Agreed, the Sesame Street “old school” episodes made from about 1969 to about the mid to late 1970s were probably that much more better than what passes off for educational TV today. Maybe this is my own personal bias talking but this can also include “The Electric Company” and “Captain Kangaroo” even, from about that same time.
Not much of a libertarian.
No, just an inept blogger who thinks that Ron Paul is a friend of Israel and who has an advanced case of OCD.
He also named himself after his gooch.
Insider trading?
It’s not like there’s anything new to learn from “Sesame Street.” Let them watch old episodes, streaming from the PBS website, on their phones.
It dumbs down kids rather than educates them. Tom Hawkins sums it up in 32 seconds :-)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f-E4DAirNFg
but I can’t think of any practical reason to oppose government funded public television.<<
Part of your problem son....part of your problem...
Because the old ones are politically incorrect and/or do not push the required social agenda.
Leaving them with no career opportunities save for making meaningless chronicles of purloined material and obvious facts and posting them to their blogs.
Origins.
Cthulhu from R’Lyeh.
The Gooch from Sesame Street.
They’d be better off with reruns of Sesame Street before far left issues invaded it and Mr. Rogers.
Only rich kids have HBO.
Of course....
Only “rich” people get HBO?
The poor kids will just download the episodes from the internet... 9 months will shrink to a few hours.
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