Culture of Puritanism

Ah ... I'm left shaking my head at this one. The San Francisco Chronicle is running a story of one, Melanie Martinez, the host of a PBS late night show for kids, The Good Night Show. The show is apparently television pablum for the proto-adult set -- there to keep them satiated while the maladroit-adult set amble about before falling into their nightly coma. It's all safe for the kiddies. Safe that is, before PBS found out about Martinez past -- a shocking past. Apparently, seven years before, Martinez starred in two 30-seconds satire pieces called Technical Virgin. That collective 1-minute was apparently too much for PBS. So they fired her. She was unfit to host their children's program because she once joked about sex.

According to PBS: "PBS Kids Sprout has determined that the dialogue in this video is inappropriate for her role as a preschool program host and may undermine her character's credibility with our audience." Yeah -- OK.

If you feel like sending PBS a "you're stupid" message, fillout this petition.

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