The bashing of poor Barney, TV’s popular purple dinosaur, continues, with parents spilling their guts to the media about Barney’s so-called drawbacks, making him the sacrificial dinosaur of the decade ...

Barney the singing-and-dancing TV dinosaur is cheerful and loving. He represents kindness, fun, discovery, safety and other worthy values. Little kids — particularly preschoolers — love him. Then why ...