http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18wwln-medium-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2&oref=slogin
It really shows how much times have changed. But is it really good to overprotect kids? I mean, millions of kids watched Sesame from the late 60s until its recent changes, and no one is totally screwed up from watching it.
What they did to us was hard-core. Man, was that scene rough. The masonry on the dingy brownstone at 123 Sesame Street, where the closeted Ernie and Bert shared a dismal basement apartment, was deteriorating. Cookie Monster was on a fast track to diabetes. Oscar’s depression was untreated. Prozacky Elmo didn’t exist.
It really shows how much times have changed. But is it really good to overprotect kids? I mean, millions of kids watched Sesame from the late 60s until its recent changes, and no one is totally screwed up from watching it.