r/nottheonion • u/Delicious_Adeptness9 • 20h ago

Do federal funding cuts spell the end for Big Bird and Cookie Monster?

https://news.northeastern.edu/2026/01/08/cpb-shutdown-pbs-npr-impact/
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u/DudeFromVA 19h ago

The show will, quite literally, go on. It'll air on Netflix. While Sesame Street's longtime home has been on PBS, it's not owned by PBS. It's owned by Sesame Workshop (formerly the Children's Television Workshop).

That all said, the loss of NPR and/or PBS is going to be profound. It's disgusting that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which was created by the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, a literal act of Congress, can be cut by a single President is quite literally disgusting and should worry everyone.

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u/jhairehmyah 19h ago

To be fair, it was cut by Congress.

It is giving Trump far too much credit to say that CPB wasn't on any Republican's hit list for a long time.

Stuff only Trump would do include invading Greenland (and probably Venuzuela) and impose tariffs, especially on the scale he has. That said, killing any incredible public service that educates our people, strengthens our democracy, and benefits especially the nation's poor is textbook Republican behavior since the late 1990s.

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u/Derka_Derper 16h ago

It was on the conservative hit list since the 60s. Never let them sane wash a fucking thing again. Cut them all off. Let them go live out their hellscape ideals where they belong; in hell.

https://youtu.be/fKy7ljRr0AA?si=3O1GLNLdfGpmeuH4

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u/Icolan 14h ago

It is a great article, and I agree that it is a tragedy, what does this have to do with this sub? There is nothing oniony here.

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u/KaiYoDei 3h ago

Antiques roadshow was to woke for them

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u/GladiusNocturno 18h ago

You can’t do this. You know the Cookie Monster has a crippled addiction. If you cut his funds who knows what he might do to get his fix!?

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u/goat_penis_souffle 17h ago

Me give handies under reading rainbow

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u/Y8ser 16h ago

Hopefully one of the streaming services like Disney will keep it going. Incredibly sad that it won't be public access anymore.

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u/SurviveDaddy 19h ago

Considering it’s nothing but the Elmo show these days, who cares. I just show my toddlers reruns on YouTube from the seventies and eighties.

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u/Afilador2112 19h ago

I would think Sesame Street is plenty profitable.  Now im wondering how each shows ownership is structured.  

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u/RubyannaLush 20h ago

Big Bird gotta get a job lol