How to pronounce “cooney” in English

Joan Ganz Cooney went from CBS to the precursor of today's Channel 13 in New York, WNDT, because they thought, OK, let's be real.

that Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett were interested in doing.

Well Joan Ganz Cooney always called it an experiment.

Joan Ganz Cooney was really good-- and this is a great leadership thing.

confronted Joan Ganz Cooney and said, where the hell are we?

And so when Joan Ganz Cooney tapped John Stone, it's basically, run "Sesame Street."

In the 1950s, Joan Ganz Cooney was a young woman from Arizona who had finished college.

And what were Ganz Cooney and Stone and them thinking about?

Television Workshop, which is Joan Ganz Cooney's production entity that made "Sesame Street," they thought the character was too, quote, unquote, street.

In this case, Joan Ganz Cooney listens to the anti-Roosevelt side and took their side.

Somehow, Joan Cooney said, television is going to be the way to alleviate poverty and better

And remember, Joan Ganz Cooney, she saw television as a means to possibly alleviate the effects of poverty, shine a spotlight on poverty, and maybe

And so there's this dinner party where the two of them both go to this dinner party at Joan Ganz Cooney's apartment

And at that time, how were Cooney and Morrisett thinking about their goals in creating this show, specifically with trade offs around funding

And at that time, Joan Ganz Cooney was thinking specifically that she wanted a show that would target that same demographic

Can you tell us about Marlo Thomas and how she, like Cooney and Morrisett, also saw a way for media to shape America for the better?

So I'm hoping we can start with the woman who forms one of the centerpieces of your book, Joan Ganz Cooney.

And he had a friend named Julian Ganz who, just by chance, was the cousin of Joan Ganz Cooney.

So basically, the thinking back then is, like, Puerto Rican and Black kids in New York City-- that was who people like Joan Ganz Cooney