With A Treasure Trove of Laughable Lies, Univision Goes To Bat For Big Bird

MRC Latino | March 23, 2017
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ENRIQUE ACEVEDO, ANCHOR, UNIVISION: For this media specialist, the cuts threaten access to independent and reliable information for a wide sector of the population.

CRISTINA LOPEZ, MEDIA SPECIALIST: If that federal support is removed from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in fact, it would end public content for these isolated rural populations, who if they are already affected by their geographic or socioeconomic condition, this would end up further isolating them.

ENRIQUE ACEVEDO, ANCHOR, UNIVISION: Moreover, public media outlets offer educational programming to nearly 7 out of 10 children between the ages of 2 and 8. A tool that helps them better prepare themselves for their school experience, especially among children with limited resources that don't have the opportunity to attend preschool. 

JULIO RICARDO VARELA, JOURNALIST: I'm a child of Sesame Street, as well as "Plaza Sésamo", and that's the thing that...I grew up with that.

ENRIQUE ACEVEDO, ANCHOR, UNIVISION: Journalist Julio Varela, who produces a program about the Latino community that is distributed on public radio, affirms that the space represents the only effective platform at this time through which he can share his work with the entire country.

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