Last week the children’s TV program, Sesame Street, celebrated its 40 year on air (in the United States where it was first broadcast).
My daughter, four, now favors Nick Jnr. but one and a half out of the first three years of her life was all about Sesame Street. (You can only lie for so long that there’s only one channel on TV.) Sesame is also a franchise so the program’s brand of liberal politics (hey what’s wrong with a little multiculturalism now and then?) that my daughter has been exposed to can also be seen in 125 countries. Like in South Africa where a local version (of course with stringent guidelines from New York City, of course) with its great includes an HIV-positive puppet (which has had the American right in a twist) as well as anti-pollution songs, like above.
So, to Sesame Street then, Happy Birthday.
