Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/06/03/cnn-and-sesame-street-to-addre.html
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Even Sesame Street has its struggles with racial and economic disparity. One of the street’s best known residents lives out of a garbage can.
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Also of note
Oscar: “Why you’re the grouch who built a swamp in a day when nobody else could do it.”
That is probably the most accurate prophecy about the guy.
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Sesame Street, keeping up the good fight it’s been rooted in for half a century.
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Jokes aside, this event does highlight the changing economic conditions. If this were to happen a decade ago, it would have been on PBS, at no cost. Now the comfort will be provided to those whose families have the cash for cable. That means the children most likely to be effected, will be less likely to see it.
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Write to HBO, suggest allowing repeat airings to run on PBS.
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I saw the wig at the end and nearly choked on my drink laughing
Oh god that’s perfect. Sesame Street trolling trump, so good!
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I reached out to Sesame Workshop and plan to hit up HBO later.
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I just had to reminisce…
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Good on ya; I think I’ll do the same.
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Good on you too, it was your post that inspired it.
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