The churning of market forces in television are once again forcing the question of why Americans are spending hundreds of millions of tax dollars a year on public broadcasting. On August 13, HBO announced it was buying all-new episodes of the iconic PBS show "Sesame Street," delaying their debut on PBS for nine months.
Decades of liberal mockery of Republicans for wanting to "kill Big Bird" just collapsed in an ugly pile. The show that was supposedly dedicated to poor kids in "underserved" communities was just sold to the highest-bidding paywall in Yuppie Land. Before that they were negotiating with Amazon and Netflix as well.
The Israeli Air Force carried out an airstrike Thursday morning in the central Gaza Strip in response to a rocket attack on Israel on Wednesday evening. A rocket launched from Gaza exploded in an open field in the Eshkol Regional Council of the western Negev. No damage or injuries were reported.
The Israel Defense Forces said it responded by striking a Hamas weapons facility, in line with Israel's policy that all rocket fire from Gaza is the responsibility of Hamas, the terrorist group that rules the Palestinian enclave.
