Here’s another MAGA effort to keep Kentuckians uninformed. That should surprise to no one.

From the Herald Leader:

Kentucky’s public radio and television networks say their future is in doubt after the U.S. House voted Thursday to cut funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides grants to public television and public radio.

Kentucky Education Television, KET, receives 14% of its approximately $30.4 million budget from federal funding, KET officials have previously said.

“We are extremely disappointed by (Thursday’s) vote in the House to eliminate federal funding for public broadcasting as the loss of this funding will substantially diminish all of KET’s programs and services,” said Shae Hopkins, executive director of KET.

Executives with KET had previously said the loss of federal dollars would severely impact all of its statewide programming including “Kentucky Edition” and weekly series “Kentucky Tonight,” “Kentucky Life,”“Kentucky Health,”“Comment on Kentucky” and “The Farmer & The Foodie.”

Louisville Public Media, which operates multiple public radio stations, also urged listeners and supporters on Thursday to contact U.S. senators, who will next vote on H.R. 4, which would claw back $1.1 billion in funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. That money had already been allocated to hundreds of public broadcasting television and radio networks across the country for the next two years. In total, the bill would claw back $9.4 billion in spending including cuts to foreign aid. The Senate is expected to vote on the Rescissions Act by July 18.

“It could be the end of public media as we know it,” Louisville Public Media officials said in an email. The amount public radio stations receive from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting varies. Typically more rural stations — which in some areas are the only daily local news source in Kentucky — receive a larger portion of their budgets from the federal government.

The MAGAt-infested GOP maintains power in Kentucky by making sure the population is incapable of critical thinking. A stupid person is a MAGAt win. So naturally, anything that educates people to the world’s true threats has to be eliminated.