Critics and journalists consistently misrepresenting animation as a genre vs. a medium is part of the wider issue where subjective bias plays a much bigger role in reporting or analysis than most people would care to admit.

When we talk about art or entertainment, we’re never telling people facts, only feelings and opinions and calling animation a genre reveals that your opinion of animation is limited.

This also holds true for anyone who undervalues kids entertainment. Maybe it’s not significant or important to you, but that’s an accurate analysis of the influence of kids entertainment on culture or society. Who’s done more to open people’s hearts than Mr. Rogers?

Who’s taught more than Sesame Street? What’s more creative than the Muppets? Who speaks more widely about alienation or loneliness than Charles Schulz?

All this is to say The Teletubbies are art and this is where I stand no matter who be my adversary.