It is no surprise and figured she would cut it because Trump plans to cut PBS. Things took place like this in Germany not to long ago.
Public Broadcasting is fantastic. I listen or watch public broadcasting several hours a day, radio and TV. I haven’t missed a Newshour in over 5 years. Fifty minutes of worldwide news without commercial interruptions.
The bias on PBS is so minimal you wouldn’t even notice it.
This is a fascist move, many dictators throughout time know that killing the media or CONTROLLING it is in their favor.
I will say when I first heard about this, I was pretty pissed, but not surprised. FASCISTS like Noem have figured out in order to control the narrative you must own the narrative.
If Kristi and Trump kill PBS it will be the first step in controlling the media, they already have plans to buy up the news media thru private ventures.
If you think getting unbiased news now is hard, wait until this takes effect.
Kristi? What do Trump’s boots taste like?
Scott, please explain how this is a fascist move? She is cutting “Public T.V” not private media telivision. She has the right to set the budget for S.D.P.T.V due it being totally funded with taxes. She could be transitioning S.D to allow for more “Private Citizen Online Blogs, Documentaries, let alone lobbying for more Private Institutions” to provide this type of service. I do not see this as a controlling, or fascist move. She is not attempting to regulate or restrict private bloggers, private networks, businesses.
I would have to check the numbers but I think SDPTV gets about 60% of their funding from coffers, the rest is private donations, grants, etc. We need MORE unbiased media, not LESS.
The amount of money the state provides to public broadcasting is a pittance in the overall budget. This cut won’t move the needle in Pierre, but it definitely sends a signal and will certainly impact important statewide programming that the “private media” which MLZ references isn’t willing to do.
Just as disgusting is her latest school voucher proposal to create state-funded 529’s using some of that PBS money. How about we feed the school kids first before we send more tax money to private church schools? It’s really sad and pathetic that individual citizen groups have to fundraise for hungry kids when this governor turned down enough federal money to erase these deficits and now wants to gut public education even more.
She wants more civics in the classroom, but yet less PBS. In other words, she wants South Dakota students to know how government works, but she just doesn’t want them to be informed.