Former Wall Street Journal reporter Ellen Hume on CNN's "Reliable Sources," January 22, 1995:

I'd say NPR's newscasts are the jewel of public broadcasting—I would say children's programming on television are another—you want to make them more commercial, here's what we're going to see. We're going to see a whole lot more gratuitous pornography of violence. We're going to see a whole lot of celebrity news. And you're going to watch Big Bird chasing Barney with a gun pretty soon.

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