'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 ...
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is wrong, ‘Sesame Street’ was not replaced by ‘drag queen storytime’
The segment Greene cited wasn’t aired; a local station mistakenly uploaded it to PBS’ site, where it stayed for two months before being removed ...
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Why Does Big Bird Look So Sad?
The windfall allowed “Sesame Street” to add episodes every season. PBS, which had aired “Sesame ... either in more households than Max or for free, as it used to be.
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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
NPR, PBS honchos face tense grilling by GOP lawmakers over biased coverage, taxpayer funding
NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS CEO Paula Kerger testified before the DOGE subcommittee on Wednesday about alleged biased content that's put their platforms in GOP crosshairs.