#public-media — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #public-media, aggregated by home.social.
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Why on earth is rnz.co.nz - a website run by 100% publicly-funded RNZ - still quietly serving scripts from third-party domains?
If the software they're running is Free Code they can serve it from their own domain. If it's not, depending on it is a ruinous compromise, in some case with known DataFarms, owned by technofacsists who are cozying up to the antidemocratic regime currently occupying the White House.
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Great! Now do U.S.
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Trump Attacks On Public Media Blocked By Judge (But It’s Too Little, Too Late)
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Billie Eilish and FINNEAS Are Joining Their Mom — and Martha Stewart — on a New PBS Cooking Show
What do Billie Eilish, Martha Stewart, and a climate scientist have in common? They’re all cooking dinner together on PBS. The show will b…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Cooking #BillieEilish #ClimateKitchen #Cookingshow #MaggieBaird #MarthaStewart #publicmedia #WETA
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2584846/billie-eilish-and-finneas-are-joining-their-mom-and-martha-stewart-on-a-new-pbs-cooking-show/ -
Too late - he will ignore per usual. Judge rules #Trump order eliminating #NPR, #PBS funding is #unconstitutional. #Trump order violated the #FirstAmendment #rights of the #publicmedia giants, a federal judge in Washington found. #democracy #ruleoflaw #government #journalism #media #freespeech https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/03/31/trump-npr-pbs-funding-unconstitutional/?location=alert
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AP News: Judge blocks Trump order to end funding for National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service
https://apnews.com/article/trump-npr-pbs-funding-executive-order-fbd9500e5f7400deab84ead188c35694
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Did you know about the bridge fund for US public media stations?
"As of late January, the bridge fund raised $66.5 million toward its $100 million goal.
In December, the bridge fund disbursed $26 million, its first round of grants, which went to 74 organizations operating 186 stations that collectively serve about 30 million Americans."
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/21/media/npr-pbs-local-stations-bridge-fund-cpm
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Episode 39 - They're Shutting Down Big Bird and Elmo #publicmedia #shocking #news
Thanks for check out my Short. If you're looking for a deeper dive you can find my long-form videos over on my main YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheBusinessBehindTheNews#business #businessnews #tbbtn #youtube #shorts #reels #tiktoks #vids #fyp #fypシ #fypシ゚viral #fyppppppppppppppppppppppp
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Jesse Jackson leading kids in a call-and-response "I Am Somebody" on Sesame Street:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuZV7ES4VE8gonna teach this tomorrow
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Back in late 2023, I said of TVNZ
"If left to limp along as a for-profit, the few really useful things it still owns (free-to-air broadcast infrastructure, studios, etc) are at risk of neglect and asset stripping."
https://disintermedia.net.nz/reimagining-public-media-in-aotearoa/
What I didn't know at the time was that the broadcast infrastructure is actually owned by a different SOE, Kordia.
But the cancellation of Fair Go and other flagship TVNZ shows was an example of what I meant.
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"When government funding disappeared from public media last year, experts predicted dire consequences for scores of stations. According to one estimate, 78 public radio stations and 37 TV stations were at risk of going dark as a result of the cuts. President Trump recently said NPR and PBS had “closed up.”
But six months after the funding cuts, few public TV or radio stations have closed their doors. Many have scraped together a patchwork of funding from concerned donors, philanthropies or government grants. Others, facing insurmountable budget issues, have resorted to mergers with bigger stations to stay online. NPR and PBS have not gone anywhere.
In fact, the country’s public media system — more than 1,000 radio and TV stations, serving millions of people — remains largely intact, despite the disappearance of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
But there is not a lot of celebrating among public media executives and supporters. Much of the angst about the long-term future remains. They point out that much of the money making up for the loss in federal funding has come from one-off donations and grants — short-term fixes — that may have managed only to defer the true financial pain.
“We’re not out of the woods at all,” said Tim Isgitt, chief executive of Public Media Company, a nonprofit that has stepped in to provide $30 million in emergency funding to rescue public TV and radio stations."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/business/media/npr-pbs-stations-funding.html
#USA #Trump #NPR #PBS #PublicMedia #Radio #TV #PublicBroadcasting
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Chancen des Fediverse für Journalismus
Der SWR, Südwestdeutscher Rundfunk, hat untersucht, ob Mastodon für Journalisten eine Alternative zu den faschistisch gesteuerten Netzen X u.s.w sein kann.
Die Ergebnisse mit vielen Chancen, Herausforderungen und konkreten Lösungsansätzen gibt es jetzt als Report zum Download.
Journalismus into the Fediverse!
@OeRR_bewegen#Fediverse #Mastodon #Journalist #Nachrichten #socialmedia #SozialeNetzwerke #ÖRR #PublicMedia
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“Gotta have opposites, light and dark and dark and light, in painting. It’s like in life. Gotta have a little sadness once in awhile so you know when the good times come.”…
Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting ran on PBS (and the CBC) from 1983 to 1994. Reruns continue around the world, including the non-commercial digital subchannel network Create and the streaming service Hulu. As part of its launch of Twitch Creative, Twitch streamed every episode over a nine-day period starting on October 29, 2015 – what would have been Ross’s 73rd birthday– and scored 5.6 million viewers. So they created a weekly rebroadcast of all 31 seasons of The Joy of Painting to air, with episodes in order, on Twitch each Monday from November 2015 onward, and a marathon of episodes each October 29. In the United Kingdom, the BBC re-ran episodes during the COVID-19 pandemic while most viewers were in lockdown at home.
Ross is estimated to have pained 30,000 canvases during his lifetime. But as those paintings are scarce on the art market, sale prices of the paintings average in the thousands of dollars and frequently topping $10,000. Lately, they’ve done even better– and for an important cause.
Starting last November, auction house Bonhams has been offering what will be a total of 30 Ross oils to benefit the public broadcasting system that made him famous…
Bob Ross’s Babbling Brook (1993)Bonhams has revealed the next works by the beloved US television painter Bob Ross it will offer for sale, with auction proceeds going toward public television following devastating funding cuts by president Donald Trump’s administration. More than $1bn in federal funding previously allocated to support public broadcasters was slashed by the Republican-controlled congress last year.
Last year, Bonhams announced it would sell 30 Ross paintings donated by Bob Ross Inc to benefit public television. The first three paintings from the group went up for sale in November and fetched a combined total of $662,000 with fees. Ross’s painting Winter’s Peace (1993) sold for $318,000 with fees, setting an auction record for the artist. Just weeks later, that record was shattered again when his painting Cabin at Sunset (1987) sold for more than $1m in an online charity auction for the Public Media Bridge Fund initiative [see here], organised by the television host John Oliver. [One more reason to love John Oliver.]
Three more Ross paintings will be part of the “Americana: Crafting a Nation: Art, History & Legacy” auction on 27 January at Bonhams in Massachusetts, and could fetch as much as $155,000 collectively, according to the auction house’s estimates.
Valley View (1990) is estimated to sell for between $30,000 and $50,000, and was the first work completed for the 21st volume of Ross’s Joy of Painting instructional book. Change of Seasons (1990) comes with an estimate of $40,000 to $60,000, and was completed live on air in 1990, on the 11th episode of the 20th season of his The Joy of Painting television series. In that episode, Ross describes the scene as “just a beautiful little painting”.
Babbling Brook (1993), a unique oval-shaped painting, is estimated to fetch between $25,000 and $45,000. It was completed during filming for the first episode of the 30th season of The Joy of Painting. Ross often let the subject in his landscapes develop as he went along, encouraging viewers to add spontaneous details as they saw fit. While painting Babbling Brook, Ross said, “I see something!” and painted in a waterfall, adding: “Let your imagination take you to any world that you want to go to.”
An additional 24 Ross works will be sold throughout this year across Bonhams salesrooms in New York, Boston and Los Angeles, the auction house says…
Giving back: “More Bob Ross paintings head to auction to benefit US public television” from @theartnewspaper.bsky.social.
* Bob Ross
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As we “don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents,” we might note that Ross’ rough contemporary and fellow “popular” painter, Thomas Kinkade was born on this date in 1958. While Ross was concerned with communicating the joy of creating and was opposed to his paintings becoming “financial instruments,” Kinkade was focused on capitalizing on his creations.
Kinkade, who described himself as a “master of light” (putting himself in the company of Rembrandt and Caravaggio), achieved success during his lifetime via the mass marketing of his work as printed reproductions and other licensed products through the Thomas Kinkade Company (according to which, at one point one in every 20 American homes owned a copy of one of his paintings).
Ross died in 1995 of complications from lymphoma (which he’d had for several years). KInkade died in 2012 of acute intoxication from alcohol and diazepam.
Thomas Kinkade “Bambi’s First Year” (source)“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that”
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Day
#art #BobRoss #culture #history #kitch #MartinLutherKingJrDay #PBS #politics #pubicTelevision #publicMedia -
Open Source Mapping for News - Reuters [tutorial / overview]
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https://scottreinhardmaps.com/blogs/custom-mapping-projects/custom-reuters-open-source-mapping <-- shared technical article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #Reuters #news #publicmedia #media #maps #cartography #cartographer #opensource #opendata #Mapbox #MapLibre #Maputnik #Protomaps #newsservive #newsroom #news #tools #workflows #tutorials #overview #webmapping #newsorganisations #newsorganizations #automation #reporters #aesthetics #design #graphics #infographics
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Independent Lentils
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Trump Successfully Murders U.S. Public Media
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Today it was announced that the US Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), created in 1968, will dissolve.
https://deadline.com/2026/01/corporation-for-public-broadcasting-dissolves-trump-1236664444/
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/business/media/corporation-for-public-broadcasting.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CVA.ziN2.toF-U2q2425S&smid=url-shareIn the 2024 US presidential election, Trump won 91% of counties considered "news deserts".
https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2024/12/05/trump-wins-news-deserts-in-landslide/The end of the CPB means more news deserts.
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How I ~enjoyed listening to 'The Year in Rebuke' wrought by Harry Shearer.
Check it out for --
'Truth Social Audio'
The Stephen Miller Band
and much more!Find it at
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I love that there are people who are responding to the funding cuts to public media. Check out Semipublic https://www.semipublic.co/
They are sponsoring adopt a station https://adoptastation.org/ - where you can adopt a station that has lost 30% or more of their public media funding.
Watch the John Oliver segment, it's fantastic.
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I love PBS, and I love native bees. What a great clip! #nativebees #savethebees #pollinator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPvfQ12Y0mE&t #PublicMedia #PBS
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@rpmik @kairyssdal Can you imagine showing up, putting in zero effort and coming up w/ 15k folks who actually want to see and engage with your stuff? Blows. My. Mind.
Sometime I wonder if we should do a Mastodon APM+MPR fundraiser to gain attention of #PublicMedia folks Masto4Harris style. Only successful.
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Stephen And Evelyn Colbert Riff On WNYC At New York Public Radio Event; Executive Chair LaFontaine Oliver Says “You Can’t Defund The Truth”
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Public Media: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Nov 17, 2025
John Oliver discusses the vital role public media plays in the lives of many Americans, how the Trump Administration’s massive budget cuts could impact those Americans directly, and why Mr. Bean is the greatest British comedian in history. Ya, that’s right, Rowan “Mr. Bean” Atkinson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknMJOgy2pA
#lastweektonight #CPBFunding #CPBCuts #PublicRadio #CommunityRadio #USPol #TrumpSucks #NativeAmericanRadio #CultureOfWar
#TrumpSucks #NativePublicMedia
#PublicMedia #CommunityRadio #EmergencyCommunications
#CorporationForPublicBroadcasting
