One ritual I miss from the US is getting a big fat latte from a favorite coffeehouse and spreading out the Sunday New York Times. Sometimes the NYTimes Magazine has almost nothing of interest for me, but they pretty consistently come up with some great stories.
One such example is Can the Muppets Make Friends in Ramallah?, published back in September.
There are so many issues going on in this one effort to extend a worldwide franchise to Israel and the Palestinian Territories. Finding and developing local talent. Trying to create a joint production with Israel (which of course requires two different languages). Trying oh so hard to keep politics out of the stories yet making sure content is local and familiar.
I had no idea that Sesame Studios existed, let alone that it keeps such tight oversight on the content of national productions all over the world.
And the Muppets even have the same carriage and tone.
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