The New York Times > National > Official Criticizes a PBS Cartoon

28 Jan 2005

New Education Secretary Margaret Spellings denounces PBS for having a lesbian couple in an animated kid's program, in her first week on the job.

(Worse, it appears that PBS is now saying that they'd already decided to withdraw it, even before hearing from the DOE.)

Posted by thom on Friday, January 28, 2005 at 2:23 PM

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What I've since heard is that WGBH will air it and make it available to other stations. Partial happy ending, except that the Education Secretary is a homophobic psychopath.

Mike Benedetto | January 28, 2005 10:17 PM

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