Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Why Streaming Platforms Are Removing Tons Of Shows From Their Platforms
In recent months, big studios have started pulling content off their platforms, sometimes at baffling speed. - Vox
Why TCM Movie Channel Is An Important American Cultural Resource
The channel that Turner put together holds an astounding degree of control over a crucial part of the American artistic and cultural heritage. What makes...
Tribute Bands, Personalities Protest As Facebook, Instagram Ban Impersonators
Dolly Parton, Freddie Mercury and Adele impersonators were among those fighting the "unfair" moves, which they said were putting their livelihoods at risk. "They...
Bell Canada Petitions Government To Let It Drop Local TV News
"In the four-year period between 2016 and 2019, average annual news operating loss was $28.4 million." It said that number increased to $40 million...
USA Today Resumes Publishing Book Bestseller List
Gannett had not run the list since Mary Cadden, the longtime compiler, was among hundreds laid off late last year. According to Erik Bursch, senior vice...
New Tech Is Exposing The Unheard Sounds Around Us
The science of bioacoustics opens up a novel window into worlds of sound unheard by human ears. Across our planet, sound is a primordial...
Republicans In Congress Revive Trump’s Plan To Make New Federal Buildings In Classical Style
This month, Republicans in both the House and Senate introduced legislation to once again make classical architecture the preferred house style for federal buildings....
Why Your Brain Is Tricking You Into Thinking Things Are Worse
People have believed in this moral decline at least since pollsters started asking about it in 1949, they believe it in every single country...
Seattle Opera Produced A “Relaxed” Performance Of “Traviata. Here’s What They Learned
The response was overwhelmingly positive, with a common refrain of, “It’s about time!” One patron was grateful to move around and said that sitting...
The Similarities Between AI And TV Commercials
However much they may doodle in the margins, they stick to tried-and-tested principles: sparkling suburban kitchens; slow-motion ice-and-soda splashes; pleasant, wordless canoe trips that...
Seattle’s Book-It Theatre To Close After 33 Years
A majority of the staff of 18 was told they’d be laid off Tuesday; six people will stay on for three to six more...
$2 Billion Of Art In The Attic: The Story Of The Greatest Art Thief...
He piled all $2 billion worth of artifacts he amassed over eight years into that same attic in his mother Mireille Stengel’s “nondescript” stucco...
How Streaming Platforms Guide Your Choices
Being able to control how long programmes are available to stream appears to give video-on-demand platforms significant power over what audiences watch. The longer...
Neuroscientist Predicted 25 Years Ago Science Would Unlock Consciousness. He Loses Bet
Despite a vast effort, researchers still don’t understand how our brains produce it, however. “It started off as a very big philosophical mystery. But...
Cormac McCarthy Was A Literary Star. He Couldn’t Happen Today
This improbable trajectory — writer toils for decades in obscurity before finding international renown — is the stuff of legend. But it did not...
Another Director Quits The Much-Troubled Royal British Columbia Museum
In the wake of the recent resignation of Alicia Dubois, the chief executive of the Royal British Columbia Museum (RBCM) in Victoria, British Columbia, 16 months after...
Why Divas Have The Right To Be Difficult
Diva status depended, back then as now, on being the author of your own career – creatively and financially – and driving it forward....
What Ails Publishing Can’t Be Fixed By AI
Authors know that the idea that “good books” will prevail in the marketplace is a cruel joke. Publishers are very, very bad at connecting...
San Francisco Opera At 100: Its Best Season Ever?
"There’s no getting around it. I’ve been covering this company since 1985, and in all that time there’s never been a season in which...
In Canada: Facebook, Google Now Have To Pay For News
Meta announced in a news release following the act's passage that it will block news for Canadian users in order to comply with the...
The Internet Imperative: Cost Drops To Free
It's now clear that practically everything Web technology touches starts down the path to gratis. Basic economics tells us that in a competitive market,...
How Did Steven Holl’s Queens Library, With All Its Accessibility Issues, Get Approved?
How a public building constructed in the 21st century, having journeyed through New York City’s laborious approvals process, can emerge so ill-prepared to receive...
Disney’s Slump: Studio Has Lost $900 Million On Recent Movies
Titles like "The Little Mermaid" and "Guardians of the Galaxy" haven't been able to deliver the expected results, adding to Disney's economic woes. In...
Why You Should Give Up Traveling
Travel gets branded as an achievement: see interesting places, have interesting experiences, become interesting people. Is that what it really is? - The New...
Review Bombing Is Warping Whether A Book Is Successful Or Not
Given its influence, some authors have come to think of Goodreads as a necessary evil, and a minefield. - The New York Times
