Former Pitch LGBT Scribe At Center Of Kansas PBS Funding Battle

This blog has a "history" with Kansas City author CJ Janovy inasmuch as we've thrown a bit of shade her way for being the least friendly least likeable LGBT advocate in all of the Midwest . . . And over the years we've heard all of the choice verbiage she has directed our way. Still, we'll celebrate her a dubious accomplishment that's an achievement we respect nonetheless. 

Anyhoo . . .

CJ's latest work provides this source material for a Kansas money fight which reminds us that our public TV "betters" are actually getting a significant amount of government help.

Here's the word . . .

When Republican state Sen. Caryn Tyson denounced a public broadcasting program and called for eliminating all funding for Kansas PBS stations, one important detail was missing.

The name of the program.

“I was completely offended by it, and so I am absolutely going to strike their funding,” Tyson told the Senate commerce committee Wednesday. On Thursday, the panel decided against recommending that lawmakers slash the entire $500,000 public TV allotment, settling on a 10% slice — $50,000 — instead.

The not so shocking discovery and Kansas progressive advocacy . . .

"This film has impeccable credentials. The source was a University Press of Kansas book written by former Kansas Reflector opinion editor and current KCUR content director C.J. Janovy. Director Kevin Willmott won an Academy Award for co-writing “BlacKkKlansman” with Spike Lee. Narrator Melissa Etheridge is, well, Melissa Etheridge. These folks are the best of Kansas. They are the kind of people — creatives, members of underrepresented groups — we should be trying to attract and retain."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . . As we wonder if the current scribe for The Pitch realize that this used to be a boss at their "Alt." publication before it became a career present to the nepo baby who runs it now . . .

State senator threatened PBS funding over program. Turns out, it was a film about LGBTQ+ Kansans.

Sen. Caryn Tyson, R-Parker, sits at her desk on the floor of the Kansas Senate in 2023. She was angered by footage in a documentary broadcast on PBS. // Photo by Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector When Republican state Sen. Caryn Tyson denounced a public broadcasting program and called for eliminating all funding for Kansas PBS stations, one important detail was missing....