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John Oliver Auction Raises $1.5 Million For Public Broadcasting
Not that long ago, John Oliver's Last Week Tonight did a good bit on why public broadcasting is important. The segment features a lot of insight from Penn State media professor Victor Pickard, whose work on the (many) problems with modern consolidated U.S. corporate media has always been essential reading: But Oliver also walked the talk. Oliver and his staff subsequently held an auction for all sorts of notable items from the show's history, including a Bob Ross painting, a prop replica of former Trump FCC boss Ajit Pai's goofy giant coffee mug, …