Comments on: 40 years of Sesame Street http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/entertainment/tv/40-years-of-sesame-street/ Video games, movies, music, and smart magazine journalism Sat, 26 May 2012 07:01:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: netc23 http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/entertainment/tv/40-years-of-sesame-street/comment-page-1/#comment-15072 netc23 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:51:07 +0000 http://blastmagazine.com/?p=32968#comment-15072 I think the biggest thing I learned from sesame street is that you are ok no matter what. my son loves elmo now and he learns so much. its fun to relive it all with him again... I think the biggest thing I learned from sesame street is that you are ok no matter what. my son loves elmo now and he learns so much. its fun to relive it all with him again…

]]> By: Sharon McEachern http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/entertainment/tv/40-years-of-sesame-street/comment-page-1/#comment-15059 Sharon McEachern Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:49:52 +0000 http://blastmagazine.com/?p=32968#comment-15059 Sesame Street has had its detractors too. Like, shortly after the show first began, a state commission in Mississippi voted to ban the show in May 1970. A member of the racist commission leaked the vote to the New York Times, saying that "Mississippi was not yet ready" for the show's integrated cast. Ethic Soup blog has a good post that includes Sesame Street's detractors not only because of the show's integration, but because of the strong, single women on the show and the belief that the show's fast pacing caused epilepsy in its preschool audience. It was just seven years ago that Congressional members threatened the funding of Public Broadcasting System (PBS), warning them to not allow the new Muppet character -- a little girl who was HIV-positive. This Ethic Soup post is at: http://www.ethicsoup.com/2009/11/sesame-street-has-taught-preschoolers-ethics-for-40-years.html Sesame Street has had its detractors too. Like, shortly after the show first began, a state commission in Mississippi voted to ban the show in May 1970. A member of the racist commission leaked the vote to the New York Times, saying that “Mississippi was not yet ready” for the show’s integrated cast.

Ethic Soup blog has a good post that includes Sesame Street’s detractors not only because of the show’s integration, but because of the strong, single women on the show and the belief that the show’s fast pacing caused epilepsy in its preschool audience. It was just seven years ago that Congressional members threatened the funding of Public Broadcasting System (PBS), warning them to not allow the new Muppet character — a little girl who was HIV-positive. This Ethic Soup post is at:

http://www.ethicsoup.com/2009/11/sesame-street-has-taught-preschoolers-ethics-for-40-years.html

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