'Sesame Street' in trouble? Marjorie Taylor Greene-led committee wants to defund NPR, PBS
A committee led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia went back and forth with public broadcasting officials about their ...
The New York Times5d
Elmo and Elon Musk Are Cited as G.O.P. Lawmakers Grill PBS and NPR
At a time where we can’t agree on basic facts, and while the free press is under attack, we need public media like PBS and NPR more ... two characters on “Sesame Street” who live together ...
Sesame Street's Future Is in Jeopardy
The future of the long-running children's TV show Sesame Street is in jeopardy after a U.S. House DOGE subcommittee called the chief executive of PBS to Capitol Hill to testify on Wednesday, with a ...
The New York Times4d
As Republicans Denounce NPR and PBS, Democrats Mock Hearing
Katherine Maher’s general response is that NPR supports free ... see PBS and NPR defunded. Congress has rejected those attempts, in part, because public media programs like “Sesame Street ...
Slate12d
Is this the End of Sesame Street?
Like, what kind of world are we living in where Sesame Street, Sesame Workshop has to lay off people and there isn’t some person charging on a white steed to save the day.
San Antonio Express-News5d
Jasmine Crockett calls out Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'bulls**t' NPR, PBS hearing
this time PBS and NPR to try to distract from the fact that Trump and Musk are robbing working people," Casar said. "It's Sesame Street that's making things expensive. It's Mr. Rogers that's ...
Fox News3d
NPR, PBS honchos face tense grilling by GOP lawmakers over biased coverage, taxpayer funding
"Especially in rural areas, PBS stations are the only outlet providing coverage of local events." Democrats on the DOGE subcommittee invoked characters from Sesame Street and The Muppets to attack ...
Marjorie Taylor Greene attacks NPR and PBS as ‘communist,’ calls for funding to ‘end’
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Wednesday used a DOGE subcommittee hearing to call for the defunding and dismantling of the ...
Boston Herald4d
Funding for PBS, NPR under fire
Republicans have frequently grumbled that PBS and NPR news programming leans ... Robert Garcia asked if the red “Sesame Street” character, “is Elmo now, or has he ever been, a member of ...
CNN4d
Marjorie Taylor Greene attacks NPR and PBS as ‘communist,’ calls for funding to ‘end’
Marjorie Taylor Greene on Wednesday used a DOGE subcommittee hearing to call for the defunding and dismantling of the company that provides NPR and PBS with ... phrase from Sesame Street, the ...
Los Angeles Times4d
Republicans grill PBS, NPR chiefs as Democrats mock proceedings
At the start of Wednesday’s congressional hearing on the funding of public media, a large photo of drag queen Lil Miss Hot Mess appearing on a PBS kids ... in jest if “Sesame Street’s ...