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One time when I was six, I punched my sister in the face for taking one of my Oreo cookies. Why is this relevant? Well now that I'm older, I look back at the time we were both growing up and realize that we fought a lot. The only thing it seemed we both agreed on was what was on TV. We loved Sesame Street. No matter what we were doing, when that song came on we immediately nestled down in front of the TV. Now I can't speak for my sister or any other child that watched the show, but I was hooked. Every night I would take a bath and play with my Sesame Street toys, and then dry off and put on my Sesame Street underwear. I even had Big Bird show up at my birthday party one year. For the majority of the party, I couldn't believe that Big Bird was actually there, until I realized that Big Bird was wearing a pair of shoes that looked very similar to the one's I saw my father wearing earlier that morning. Now I look back at the impact Sesame Street and other children's shows made on me. Although I didn't realize it back then, it made me a better person. These shows taught me how to be creative, how to be respectful towards others, and most importantly how to share with others. I just wished I had learned the latter before the Oreo cookie incident.

The Public Broadcasting Service was founded in 1969. Its mission was to provide programming and services of the highest quality as well as the imaginative use of technology to advance education, culture and citizenship. PBS also provides an alternative to commercial stations. Today PBS provides programming and services to 350 non-commercial stations serving all 50 states as well as Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam. Since it is a non commercial, PBS relies on financial support from underwriting, pledges from its viewers ,and the Federal Government. Now government is looking into cutting all of its funding towards PBS. Faced with this dilemma, PBS is trying to figure out what they can do to get the funding needed to provide the public with the quality programming it has provided for the past 30 years.

One option is to begin running commercials. This is the one thing that made PBS stand out from all the other stations.

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