Good ol' Alabama, leading the charge over the cliff

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Alabama Public Television may cut ties with PBS, cutting off Sesame Street, other educational shows

The PBS partnership was not on the meeting agenda, although some board members were eager to discuss it.

While some board members had no idea PBS would be discussed, others came with strong arguments and even written plans on steps to disaffiliate from the public media giant.

“I really wasn’t prepared to hear about severing the ties,” APT Commissioner Pete Conroy said.

On the other hand, APT Commissioner Les Barnett Zoomed into the meeting with a five-page document outlining a plan for disaffiliation from PBS, including examples of alternative programming.

Barnett and Commissioner William Green argued that continuing APT’s partnership with PBS could send a bad message to politicians like Trump, State Gov. Kay Ivey and the Republican majority House and Senate.

“That needs to be under consideration, PBS’s negative impact on Alabama Public Television, and how it affects our ability to get money from the more conservative leaders in this state,” Green said.

“PBS has made themselves the enemy,” Barnett said.

It is apparent that a bunch of conservatives started getting their ducks in a row quietly in order to blindside the rest of the body. For them, the DOGE cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting are just what they wanted. Now they can fill more hours of Alabama Public Television with high school football and hackneyed pop music stars of yesteryear.

"This Old House" and "Antiques Roadshow" are apparently too wild-eyed for the good folks in the Heart of Dixie.