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Associated Press

Big Bird Tweeting About the COVID-19 Vaccine Caused An Uproar From Conservative Politicians

Tuesday, November 16, 2021, By Sophie Gomprecht
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, Trustee Professor of radio, television and film and director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture in the Newhouse School, was quoted in the AP story 鈥�.鈥� Prof. Thompson was also interviewed about pop culture topics on聽聽(San Francisco) and聽.

When Big Bird tweeted last week saying that he received the COVID-19 vaccine, it received flashback from many conservative politicians saying that it was ‘government propaganda.’ Professor Robert Thompson explained, 鈥淲hen you get a mass medium as dominant and powerful as television … that鈥檚 always going to be a battleground over what messages get out there.鈥�

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