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Excellent point about media development and communication for development as being two ideas that aren't mutually exclusive! This reminds me of a film that Amy Jordan showed at Penn called "The World According to Sesame Street," which talks about efforts to bring the show to conflict-ridden areas, such as Kosovo, and places where educational TV hasn't been developed as much, like Bangladesh and South Africa. And surprisingly (or is it unsurprising?), it appears that Sesame Street has done a lot to develop the media for purposes of education in those areas, at the same time that it has contributed to the improvement of understanding of important issues that may have once been taboo to the children of those areas.