Earth haters seem bent on crippling the People's media

When this interested party studied The White Rabbit Lantern, Jim’s Tap, The Last Step and Horatio’s at South Dakota State University in the 70s, post-Kent State and Vietnam, public radio became a loyal traveling companion and powerful vehicle for lifelong learning. But these days Brookings is simply a place where intellect goes to die because it's infested with Earth haters gutting public media in a rural red state that's depriving people living on reservations of vital links in news deserts. 

Public television and radio were created in part to be government watchdogs so a cynical observer might suspect politicians like South Dakota's junior US Senator desperately want to hide NPR's coverage of the tumult and turmoil in the Trump White House.