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Anonymous wrote:Twenty years ago they came for cookie monster and had him pushing eating fruits and vegetables.

And just a few years ago Big Bird was a shill for the pharma companies pushing the covid vaccine.

I guess that’s one view.

You could have just come up with your own Crazy Conspiracy Bird to tell kids about the microchip and mind control chips in the vaccine. He could have a Freedumb Monster sidekick to feed them pro gun propaganda. I mean, sure, Republican beliefs will kill more children this year than vaccines ever have or will, but crazy people need media too.

Anonymous wrote:Twenty years ago they came for cookie monster and had him pushing eating fruits and vegetables.

And just a few years ago Big Bird was a shill for the pharma companies pushing the covid vaccine.

Anonymous wrote:I do not understand who is not walking around with barely contained hatred for these people at this point it is insane

https://fortune.com/2025/03/24/the-trump-administrations-abrupt-federal-grant-cuts-have-made-their-way-to-sesame-street-and-they-risk-pulling-the-rug-out-from-under-children/

It's interesting how during his first term when he proposed this, the outrage , even here on DCUM, was crazy and people were up in arms. Now a few years later, it's barely a blip.

There have been so many changes - move Sesame street moved to HBO, PBS streaming service, lots of kids content on youtube, move away from educational content to entertainment content on other social media for kids, and so on . A lot of this was available the first time around but the important thing is how technology is there but people are so reticent to accept. They also were stuck on their traditional forms of media. The past few years shifted so much of how media and how it is consumed. I fully expect CNN to pivot away from it's full time news channel to something else entirely in the coming years.

PBS and NPR might have done themselves a favor by hiring the occasional Republican over the years. You know, so if there is a threat to stop federal funding, both sides would feel some pain? But no.

Anonymous wrote:When Sesame Street began there was very little children's programming available. This was long before videotapes.
I was teaching Title I first graders and remember playing a Sesame Street record to help them learn some things--and the songs were fun.

That has changed. Sesame Street can continue and I doubt funding will be cut. But, it needs to go back to its roots--helping kids learn to read and count. Give the social justice a rest and go back to teaching manners and being considerate to everyone.

Have you actually sat down, watched, and (key part here) PAID ATTENTION to recent Sesame Street episodes? Because they absolutely do still teach letter recognition, counting, etc. And what you call "the social justice" is, in fact, actually "teaching manners and being considerate to everyone".
I've got 8yo and 4yo DDs, so I've seen my fair share of Sesame Street over most of the past decade, and I watched plenty of it as a child in the early-mid 80s. Other than the loss of screen time for some of the older characters (less Big Bird, Snuffy, Telly, Bert and Ernie...more Elmo, Abby, etc.), the core messaging and educational foundations are still there.
Having characters of various backgrounds/ethnicities/abilities absolutely teaches young children to be considerate to everyone. When my older DD started Kindergarten, a little boy in her class was autistic and essentially non-verbal. My DD made the connection ("he's like Julia!") to a character from Sesame Street who is also autistic. Inclusion and representation (what I'm assuming you lump in with "social justice") absolutely matters...to all children.
Did you also have an issue with Mister Rogers back in the day, too. Because talk about social justice...

I think it’s time for a federally funded review of the tele-tubbies. The spirit of Fallwell lives on!

Uniformity, Inequality Exclusivity is the new push

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When Sesame Street began there was very little children's programming available. This was long before videotapes.
I was teaching Title I first graders and remember playing a Sesame Street record to help them learn some things--and the songs were fun.

That has changed. Sesame Street can continue and I doubt funding will be cut. But, it needs to go back to its roots--helping kids learn to read and count. Give the social justice a rest and go back to teaching manners and being considerate to everyone.

what social justice did it teach? how does cookie monster teach social justice?

Well, Big Bird was a shill for the Covid vaccine so…

Weird how something gets politicized and then no one cares about it anymore...