So....Enquiring minds want to know......will Big Bird’s Feathers now be black?
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.
Not much of a libertarian.
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.
but I can’t think of any practical reason to oppose government funded public television.<<
Part of your problem son....part of your problem...
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.
“...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’d damn sure want to see the science on the latter part of that statement.
As to the former, being ‘trivial’ doesn’t make anything constitutional. In fact, I have a few Amendments I can point to to say it’s exactly the opposite.