This is an interesting social class issue. 3 years ago, Mitt Romney said he wanted to defund PBS.
Today we see a show on public broadcast selling the exclusivity rights to HBO. Kids whose parents pay for HBO now get to see sesame street before the kids who cant afford it. In fact, those kids may even be too old by the time the episodes they would want to see get widely distributed.
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