1. “A lot of what the [PBS] programs create is really art—which is extraordinary, considering that the ideology here, the catechism, the product, is just letters, geometric forms, decency, and numbers.”

    — 

    The New Yorker Back Issues blog is excerpting Renata Adler’s 1972 article about PBS’s children’s programming, “Cookie, Oscar, Grover, Herry, Ernie, and Company.”

    In Defense of Big Bird: The New Yorker

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