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Finky Dory’s Mom's avatar

This was a really, really good one, Jordan. Thanks for the read!

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Beagle's avatar

A hope-filled article, Jordan. Thank you. Hopefully these Congressional hearings will result in actual prosecutions and jail time, before Trump leaves office.

PBS receives money from the National Science Foundation, The Rockerfeller Foundation and "viewers like you," so just like with the colleges, I think we can all agree that the time for federal subsidies is over. Not to mention all the Sesame Street merchandise/tickets that go straight to the Sesame Workshop. Check out Sesame Workshop's cofounder Joan Ganz Cooney's bio. She has all kinds of wealth from her children's programs at PBS, but also sits on several boards like the Mayo Foundation, Chase Manhattan and Johnson and Johnson. Oh, and she's a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. I take it she has to hide behind PBS despite being wealthy enough to own her own station because we might not want her educating our children if we had heard her name previously. If not, then maybe she could ask for a financial donation from her friends at Disney, Netflix or the Henson companies. Has anyone done a deep dive on this yet to rob me of the last bit of innocence of my childhood?

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