Go Skins Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 [url="http://www.demint.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=pickpocket&ContentRecord_id=18e4231c-537d-4df4-b11a-b74eb82535ab&ContentType_id=68a61be2-1ba4-4e64-8ebb-2d073518934e&Group_id=71939010-14b3-45b6-ace3-e1bb536b8179"]http://www.demint.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=pickpocket&ContentRecord_id=18e4231c-537d-4df4-b11a-b74eb82535ab&ContentType_id=68a61be2-1ba4-4e64-8ebb-2d073518934e&Group_id=71939010-14b3-45b6-ace3-e1bb536b8179[/url] Just a few hours before President Obama mocked Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for suggesting that Sesame Street shouldn’t receive public funding, Sesame Workshop Executive Vice President Sherrie Westin told CNN the profitable children’s program didn’t need it. The appropriateness of funding public broadcasting while the nation is $16 trillion in debt came up during the presidential debate on Wednesday evening when Romney told Public Broadcasting Service moderator Jim Lehrer that, “I like PBS. I love Big Bird. ... But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it." On Thursday morning Sesame Workshop Executive VP Westin appeared on CNN to discuss Romney’s statement. “The Sesame Workshop receives very little funding from PBS,” [url="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/10/04/sesame-exec-big-bird-lives-on/"]she said.[/url] “So we are able to raise our funding through philanthropic , through our licensed product, which goes back into the educational programming, through corporate underwriting and sponsorship. So, quite frankly, you can debate whether or not there should be funding for public broadcasting. But when they always try to tout out Big Bird, and they say we’re going to kill Big Bird—that is actually misleading, because Sesame Street will be here…Big Bird lives on.” Apparently, the president didn’t catch the segment. Later that afternoon he jabbed at Romney, mocking him for being too hard on the beloved furry friend and suggesting it was ridiculous to eliminate Sesame Street's subsidy. "Thank goodness somebody is finally getting tough on Big Bird," [url="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-mocks-romney-getting-tough-big-bird-165202158--election.html"]Obama said[/url]. "We didn't know that Big Bird was driving the federal deficit." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Lucid| Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 It's nice to hear that Sesame Street is self sufficient.. But the point remains that there would be no Sesame Street if it weren't for public financing. This is beside the fact that the funding PBS receives from the government is so miniscule that to even mention it in a discussion of fiscal reform is ludicrous. a red herring. The fact that there is a Sesame Street is enough to warrant the continuation of such a program considering the paltry sum of resources used on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewdog Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 If they kill the funding to PBS, then it would basically cut the head off the snake. Sure Sesame Street could continue to make new shows, but they would have to find a new network. That might not be so easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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