I’m not sure how that compares between the original and today but curious ti know.Shane Keating – Hey! Missed the last few Sesame Street season 45 episodes? No problem. The show hasn’t gone downhill, other have risen to the level of excellence.Īnother pioneering part of Sesame Street was developing child entertainment around research and learning outcomes. The the author even mentions this as one of the good things! The worked has grown up and we show diversity a lot more today than in the 70’s and 80’s so what Sesame Street pioneered has now been adopted by everyone. Sesame Street keeps a variety of characters it has tremendous value. One example is featuring musical acts feature artists recognizable by adults.Īnother key point is showing diversity. One key point pioneered by Sesame Street that’s still true today is trying to make a show that parents watch with their kids because then the learning continues after the show stops. (We watch on public television WTTW, not HBO.) I cannot say it’s gone downhill. I grew up with Sesame Street and I try to watch as much of it with her as possible. OK boomer! I’m 42 and have a 3 yr old daughter. We tend to talk about nostalgia with rose color glasses, overemphasizing the the good parts while forgetting the bad. This feels a bit like an old man ranting “it was better in my day than it is today!” Memories get locked into our brain at certain ages and become out reference point for what we consider “best”, and anything new isn’t as good. The animations and style are different, or the length has changed, but so what. I cannot find anything substantial that the author thinks is materially worse about today’s show than the one from his childhood. They do make Disney assets, though, so that was a good match. Well before the early 2000s when Disney took over, Sesame Street turned into the data-driven committee-ruled kind of place that might make "jazz" but only suitable for elevators. Unlike when the show started in the 60s, toddlers are now a market! And market the show and associated products to them. Ok, so for context in software terms, who here remembers the news about Google choosing a shade of blue? It's like that but for how to introduce tough subjects to kids. Everything they did, well before Disney's involvement, involved so much testing and measuring and manipulation that. CTW turned Sesame Street into a well-honed marketing/child psychology machine. His Sesame street quote was a minor aside.Īnd neither this op ed nor Oz's SXSW comments talk about why the Muppets, and especially Sesame Street, are the way they are. Oz's longer rant was about Disney, who don't want Oz touching their Muppets. The piece is mostly parental anecdotes and whinging. He's barely quoted in the piece and used as title clickbait. This is an article from several years ago. So yeah, in THOSE countries, the Danish books as you describe might be considered abusive to give to minors if they are demonstrably seen to promote sexual behavior that would harm the children's standing in those societies. To your example, premarital sex is a REALLY bad thing to get caught doing in some Arab countries. Simply put, you can have a culturally relative definition of content appropriateness and still understand this concept. There will not be any symbolically notated theorem forthcoming on this topic. If you're going to continue to pretend that this is still all super subjective, I'm gonna have to assume you're not arguing in good faith anymore. Does that mean content creators are reckless if they include a cartoon dog that barks angrily at someone? Obviously you're dealing with a rare exception that perhaps could be fixed with some standard of a content index for special cases. Here's another one in the same vein: some kid has a finger bitten off at age 4 by a rabid dog, and now has a phobia of all dogs. My citation of the example of a child with autism was an exception for a standard of reasonableness when assessing this due diligence. I already stated in multiple ways that the "clear line" is taking deliberate care in programming for children to ensure first and foremost that it won't be likely to any significant degree to rob them of their innocence, a term which I explained further for you.
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