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- Tow Foundation Awards PMVG $400,000 Grant to Advance Public Media Shared Infrast...
Public Media Venture Group has received a $400,000 grant from The Tow Foundation to advance its work to help local public stations update operations, reduce costs and strengthen their impact. The two-year grant will support PMVG’s efforts to sustain public media at a time of significant disruption. A release cited the loss of federal funding, aging technical infrastructure and growing pressure to compete in a digital-first media environment. PMVG said it is working to address those challenges by helping public stations adopt technologies such as streaming, digital audience engagement, cloud-based infrastructure and shared engineering services. The release cited PMVG’s work with KEET(TV) in Eureka, Calif., as part of a stabilization effort to reduce capital and equipment costs and preserve thee station’s local service in a financially vulnerable market. PMVG member organizations own and operate approximately 100 public stations that it said collectively reach 250 million people. [Do you receive the Radio World SmartBrief newsletter each weekday morning? We invite you to sign up here.] The post Tow Foundation Awards PMVG $400,000 Grant to Advance Public Media Shared Infrastructure appeared first on Radio World. [TheTopNews] Read More.51 mins ago - GOP Congressman Butters Trump Up at Rally By Parroting His False Election Claim:...
Rep. John James (R-MI), who’s currently running for governor of Michigan, parroted President Donald Trump’s false 2020 election claim during a rally at a General Motors plant on Monday. Trump introduced several politicians to come to the podium during the rally, including Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI), Rep. Tom Barrett (R-MI), and James. “John James, come up!” Trump bellowed. “You have to win, John James!” “Thank you, Mr. President, for coming back to Michigan, where you won three times,” James said. However, the flattery may have gone unnoticed by Trump, who remained stone-faced behind the gubernatorial candidate. James continued: We very much appreciate your leadership. And as governor of the state of Michigan, we’re going to be matching those Trump accounts. We’re going to be taking care of our children. We’re going to be matching those. You know, we have a president who keeps his promises. We have a president who looked at a situation and he said ‘You’re going to have very fast planes in Macomb County. You know what he did? In the very first 100 days the president of United States, President Donald J. Trump delivered F-15 EX to Selfridge National Guard Base. As the audience applauded, Trump smiled and appeared to mouth, “true, true.” Once Trump backed James last month, two of his opponents — former Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox and State Senator Aric Nesbitt — suspended their campaigns and also backed James. James now faces businessman Perry Johnson (R) in the August 4 primary. Johnson put $30.8 million of his own money toward his campaign, according to a recent disclosure. The winner will face either current Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) or Genesee Co. Sheriff Chris Swanson (D). Incumbent Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) term ends Jan. 1, 2027. Whitmer, who took a “conciliatory” approach to working with Trump, has given mixed signals on whether she’ll run for president in 2028. Watch the clip above via NewsNation.The post GOP Congressman Butters Trump Up at Rally By Parroting His False Election Claim: ‘You’ve Won Three Times!’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Ben Shapiro Rips Into Trump Admin Officials Leaking About Missile Shortages: ‘...
(Screenshot) Conservative pundit Ben Shapiro warned that Trump administration officials who are leaking to The New York Times, CNN, Axios, and other outlets about the Pentagon running out of missile defense interceptors are “helping Iran” and need to be found and prosecuted. Shapiro posted to social media on Monday, following a series of reports from the outlets he named. The New York Times reported on Monday, for example, that Trump paused the latest strikes against Iran in part due to the interceptor shortage: President Trump decided last week to put off plans to escalate the U.S. assault on Iran, at least for now, according to U.S. officials. Mr. Trump and his aides were motivated in part by dwindling stockpiles of interceptors to shoot down Iranian missiles, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters. “When you’re leaking (falsely, according to President Trump) to CNN and the NYT and Barak Ravid that we’re short on interceptors, you’re helping Iran. Trump must track down and fire the leakers in his administration who continue to undermine his pursuit of America’s interests,” Shapiro warned. “Even if you’re just looking for a better negotiated offramp here, leaking that America doesn’t have the military arsenal to keep up the fight destroys all negotiating position. Fire the leakers today. Anyone who opposes that obvious position gives away the game,” he concluded. Trump has long claimed that the U.S. is not facing a missile shortage as the war has continued well past his stated 4-week goal. On Monday, during an Air Force One gaggle, Trump jabbed his predecessor and claimed that then-President Joe Biden gave away too many munitions to Ukraine. CNN’s Aaron Blake pointed out the Trump administration’s mixed messaging on the missile shortage and the president’s indirect acknowledgement of the issue: “On the one hand, it has claimed the US has more than enough munitions — even that Trump has vastly increased the munitions and that the number is ‘unlimited.’ On the other, it has blamed the Biden administration for depleting the stockpiles and asked for a ton of money to help replenish them, while warning about shortfalls if Congress fails to provide it.”The post Ben Shapiro Rips Into Trump Admin Officials Leaking About Missile Shortages: ‘You’re Helping Iran’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Fetterman Hits Back After Progressive Senate Candidate Threatens to Put An ‘Og...
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Progressive Michigan candidate for the U.S. Senate Abdul El-Sayed was revealed in a Monday report from Politico to have threatened Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) in a recent Zoom call with donors, saying he’d like to send a message inside his party by putting “one ogre on a pike.” Liz Crampton scooped the news, which quickly went viral online and led to a wave of condemnation of El-Sayed. “If I win … well y’all came at me so now I get to come at you, and you know, primarying people like John Fetterman, I have no problem to do that,” he said, according to audio of the Zoom call Crampton obtained. “Ideally you put one ogre on a pike, and then everyone else gets the message, and all of a sudden starts to sound a lot different,” El-Sayed added later in the call while discussing his plans to bolster the progressive movement while in office. Fetterman hit back at El-Sayed in a statement to Politico, saying, “I pick being Senator Shrek over being the Pontiac Platner any day” – referring to former progressive U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner. Crampton reported on El-Sayed’s campaign’s statement to her: An El-Sayed campaign spokesperson referred POLITICO back to an earlier statement that the candidate was “speaking metaphorically” about his intention to support a primary against Fetterman, a Pennsylvania senator. Fetterman and El-Sayed have clashed over support for Israel. Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-MI), a fierce critic of El-Sayed who has endorsed his opponent Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI), pulled no punches in reacting to the comment: “Violent, vulgar threats have no place in a democratic electoral contest. With political violence on the rise, we need to be doing everything we can to lower the temperature — not raise it. It’s the American people who suffer most when we degrade the political process this way.” __The post Fetterman Hits Back After Progressive Senate Candidate Threatens to Put An ‘Ogre on a Pike’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade Says NYC Mayor Mamdani’s ‘Totally Wrong’ Mayora...New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has “totally wrong” mayoral goals that are “maybe good for Uganda,” Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade, co-host of Fox & Friends, said Monday. Kilmeade and his guest, OutKick founder Clay Travis, were musing about the 2028 presidential election when the topic of the mayor came up. Travis said the decision by Democrats to hold primaries in South Carolina first “is a significant detail because I think that’s a big win for Kamala Harris, who is clearly going to run in 2028.” He continued, “Let me give you an idea, Brian. We’re fortunate that Zohran Mamdani was born in Uganda and is not eligible to run for President of the United States, because if he were eligible, he would 100 percent, in my opinion, be the nominee for 2028. Because he has all the cache, he has all the charisma, he has all the attention. He is where the Democratic Party electorate, in the primary, would, I think, be if he were eligible to run. We’ll see if it translates to AOC.” “Clay, I’ll give you charisma, composure, talent, and smile but his ideas are some of the worst ideas,” Kilmeade countered. “Wrong on everything, Brian!” Travis answered. “Wrong on absolutely everything, absolutely wrong. Not even gray area wrong,” Kilmeade continued. “Totally wrong. It’s maybe good for Uganda, I don’t know Uganda politics as much as I should.” Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda, to parents of Indian descent. He and his family moved to South Africa and then the United States when he was a young child. He graduated from high school in New York City and attended college in Maine, and first entered politics in 2015 as a volunteer, per Intelligencer. Mamdani is not eligible to run for the office of President of the United States because he was not born in the country. Watch the above via Fox News.The post Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade Says NYC Mayor Mamdani’s ‘Totally Wrong’ Mayoral Goals are ‘Maybe Good for Uganda’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Trump Tells Crowd At GM Plant He’s Done More For Them Than Their ParentsPresident Donald Trump told a crowd of auto workers at the General Motors plant in Michigan on Monday that he’s done more for them than their parents have. Trump made the comments while calling out United Autoworkers President Shawn Fain, who’s being investigated by the Department of Justice for allegedly abusing his authority and retaliating against a union officer. Fain has denied the allegations and called them politically motivated. “You had a leader. I don’t know if he’s still with you, Shawn Fain or something,” Trump said, continuing: This guy was bad news. I never spoke to him and never saw him. He was a Democrat and he thought that [Joe] Biden or Kamala [Harris] would be wonderful. You would have no…I hate to say, you would not have an auto industry right now if they got elected. You wouldn’t have an auto industry. But I don’t know what happened to the guy. Somebody said he got fired, but I can tell you that the people that count, those people love Trump. Because I have done more for you than your parents, okay? Your parents are good. I’m not going to knock your parents, but I have been better to you than your parents. That I can tell you, and they would agree with me. Wherever they may be, they would agree. Fain worked for Chrysler in Indiana, but never at a GM plant in Michigan. Despite the ongoing federal investigation, Fain is running for re-election as president of the 400,000-member union, and recently spoke at the NAACP National Convention. Despite his support of Democrats in 2024, Fain came out in favor of Trump’s trade policy in 2025, shortly after the president announced his “Liberation day” tariffs. Fain told MS NOW, “We do believe, and we know, when it comes to auto, when it comes to heavy truck, and agricultural implementation, we know that tariffs will influence these companies to do the right thing and reinvest in this country and reinvest in factories in this country.” Watch the clip above via Fox News.The post Trump Tells Crowd At GM Plant He’s Done More For Them Than Their Parents first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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