Mitt Romney’s pledge to end subsidy for PBS is met by protest spearheaded by Sesame Street’s Big Bird A campaign to defend America’s Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) – using Big Bird, the fuzzy yellow character on Sesame Street, as a figurehead – is to feature a puppet-based protest next month dubbed the Million Muppet March. The demonstration is scheduled for 3 November at the National Mall in Washington, three days before the presidential election, after the idea was dreamed up on on social media. Mitt Romney pledged during the 3 October presidential debate to end the federal government’s subsidy for the PBS despite his professed love for Big Bird, one of the characters on the channel’s 43-year-old children’s educational programme alongside the Muppets. Michael Bellavia, 43, president of the animation studio Animax Entertainment from Los Angeles, and Chris Mecham, 46, a writer who is studying political science at Boise State University, separately came up with the Million Muppet March idea in response

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