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I got an e-mail from a reader last week about a syndicated editorial cartoon that we published. It showed Sesame Street being destroyed by a congressional wrecking ball. Didn’t we realize this was an Internet hoax, she wrote?
As it turns out, that’s been the response of many people to reports that a U.S. House budget committee approved funding cuts to public broadcasting.
Blame it on two students at the University of Northern Colorado who sent out a bogus e-mail 10 years ago urging citizens to sign a “Save NPR/PBS” petition. Now that funding really could be in jeopardy, supporters think it is just another hoax.
Sounds like an Aesop fable.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee