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Days before this happened, I wondered aloud how many public TV viewers were attending his appearances in the hope of receiving some consolation.

This is as severe an existential crisis for the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio as anyone raised on a children’s programming diet of “Arthur,” “Sesame Street” and other public TV shows has seen in our lifetimes.

Earlier this month, its team announced that PBS Kids is not commissioning another season of the WGBH-produced show, making the next season its last for the time being, according to Alaska public TV station KTOO.

Finland and Estonia are both Nato members and Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal told public TV that, if necessary, they would invoke Article 4 of the Nato Treaty, which involves consultation if any member state feels threatened.

“Today's 13- and 14-year-olds who commit these grotesque offences were three or four years old 10 years ago,” conservative Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson told a televised debate of party leaders on public TV last weekend.