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Postcards from buster new orleans8/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Charren serves on the board of WGBH-TV, the PBS station that produced “Buster.” “It’s a scary way to control content in a democracy,” said children’s programming advocate Peggy Charren, referring to the Department of Education’s letter. According to Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, PBS has been “so finely attuned now to the whims of the administration they didn’t need to be told” to pull the “Buster” episode. “We look forward to having them on the air,” Lea Sloan, vice president of media relations for PBS, said of the segments.Ĭritics on the left want to see even more backbone than that. The children’s TV institution “Sesame Street,” for example, which gets funding from the same Ready to Learn grant that got “Buster” in trouble with the Department of Education, announced its 36th season Thursday with a press release describing “parody segments including ‘Desperate Houseplants’ and ‘Grouch Eye for the Nice Guy.’ ” Will Biloxi need to be protected from the playful reference to “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”? The goal now is to turn what happened with the “Buster” episode “into a positive,” Mitchell said.īut what the standards are will have to be worked out in a new era of extra scrutiny. Mitchell emphasized that PBS has and will continue to cover gay issues, including gay parenting, in prime-time programming, saying that “children’s programming has its own set of principles and standards.”Īn internal review for children’s programming is already underway. ![]() We’re not a network that sends out a program and says, ‘Live with it, New Orleans or Biloxi.’ ” She also said, “I can’t make decisions as president of PBS based on my personal feelings about something.” “They depend upon us to distribute programming to them that serves the interest of the community. She stands by her “Buster” decision, which she said she made in consultation with various member stations. ![]() But Mitchell, concerned about how the episode would play with parents in local communities, said she had already decided not to distribute it to member stations. ![]()
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