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DOGE BARKS AT BIG BIRD: SESAME’S STRUGGLES & PBS UNDER ATTACK 🐦📺🌈 (news)

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Sesame Street's educational architecture, with intentional pauses and inflections for learning, is unparalleled in children's media.

This episode of the Nonprofit News Feed explores the severe financial and political challenges facing Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, including the loss of its HBO contract and cuts to its global humanitarian programs. The hosts also cover other nonprofit sector news, including a lawsuit over canceled tree-planting funds, a massive judgment against Greenpeace, and a teen-led community initiative.

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Public media under pressure, framed through nonprofit funding, kids' emotional support, and web-bot disruption.

Sesame Workshop is under clear pressure here, with the HBO contract nearing its end and no replacement in sight, and that strain gives the discussion its shape.

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