“In the ’50s, it was Elvis,” reads the ad on the front page of Billboard. “In the ’60s, it was the Beatles. In the ’90s, it’s . . . Barney.” That’s right. He may not have the musical reputation of a ...

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 must have a tough purple hide, or else public TV’s perky prehistoric playmate would have turned black and blue after the beating he has taken from big people lately. The popular children’s ...

Nothing personal, but Robert Curran hopes Barney the Dinosaur soon will be extinct. To Curran, the bubbly, purple tyrannosaurus rex is a “paleolithic Mr. Rogers.” Worse than that, Barney is the ...