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There's so much to get worked up about these days that I'd forgive you for not noticing a news

item that completely bummed me out a couple weeks back. The news was about layoffs at Sesame Workshop.

And I get it. I'm a softy, a parent, a person of a certain age.

But still, I heard all this.

And I thought, really?

Yeah, I had the exact same reaction. Like, what kind of world are we living in where, you know, Sesame Street, Sesame Workshop has to lay off people, and there isn't some person charging

on a white steed to save the day.

David Camp is not an unbiased person to call with this news. He wrote a book about Sesame

Street called Sunny Days, the Children's television revolution that changed America.

But I could also say, Mary, that I was part of Generation 1 of the show's viewership.

I was sat down by my mom who'd read about this amazing new educational program that PPS was

putting out. And so, yeah, I mean, both as a user and as a historian, I am deeply embedded

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