Only a tiny fraction of money that underwright sesame street comes from government agencies. It is overwhelmingly warner media's money and and that of private benefactors. Big bird has a twitter account now, by the way, he tweeded that he'd just gotten the vaccine despite having natural immunity due to the fact that puppets don't have respiratory systems exactly. The show will never command the huge viewing audiences it once did. That's just not going to happen again.
Big Bird got vaccinated, an Asian American Muppet moved in, and conservatives got really mad at Sesame Street.
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