In January, Sundance Film Festival screened it, and some employees of the Sundance Institute, which operates alongside the festival, soon resigned in protest. Even before viewing it, they had criticized the film for a multitude of sins. - The Atlantic
"These 'heavy tweeters' account for less than 10% of monthly overall users but generate 90% of all tweets and half of global revenue. Heavy tweeters have been in 'absolute decline' since the pandemic began, a Twitter researcher wrote." - Reuters
"We attribute the growth of public media local journalism to three fundamental related features of the public media system: organizational sophistication and maturity, the federated structure of public media, and the resulting financial strength of the system as a whole." - Current
Or, to be more precise, it's very good at guessing what will interest you: "the most powerful tool TikTok has to grab users and keep them hooked is the company's feted 'For You Page', the FYP, and the algorithm that populates it." - The Guardian
"The newly combined media company said that costs associated with cutting content" — such as the Batgirl film whose release was canceled entirely — "could reach $2.5 billion, making up a significant part of the total $3.2 billion to $4.3 billion in charges related to its financial restructuring." - Reuters
I am learning to accept that our mainstream media will not adapt to the needs of this moment in our public life. Having talked and written about institutional bias of this sort for many decades, I am beginning now to accept that the central institutions are not going to change. - James Fallows
"In recent months, however, Hollywood's business culture has started to regress in subtle ways. New problems — widespread cost-cutting as the box office continues to struggle, coming union contract negotiations that producers worry will result in a filming shutdown — have become a higher priority." - The New York Times
"On the official 5-4 website, there is a one-liner that pretty much tells you everything you need to know: 'A podcast where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have caused America's lofty promise to fall like a dying satellite slowly crashing back to earth.'" - Vulture
One of soap operas' major problems in recent times has been a failure to bring in new fans on top of their existing ones. Much of culture right now is preoccupied with nostalgia, from the endless stream of reboots and remakes, to "all stars" reality shows. - BBC
According to Abbott Elementary's Brittani Nichols, writers getting to produce episodes means something important, and it keeps the writers' room bonded, on track, and earning real credit for their work. - Slate
"Watching Tár, you’re likely to be spectacularly divided about what happens to Lydia. We experience it all through her eyes, and it’s the nature of that to feel pity and terror." But should we? - Variety
They've never been romantically linked, but they're good buddies - and it's obvious. "The genuine tenderness between them, undergirding even their tensest interactions, is ultimately what makes their co-starring turns so memorable." - The New York Times
A year after Alec Baldwin fired the gun whose bullet killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, a New Mexico prosecutor said in a statement, "No one is above the law and every victim deserves justice." - Los Angeles Times
The internet has always had an expansive capacity to reach some pretty strange and inexplicable places, but with the ever-evolving nature of social media, its strangeness is more readily available than ever before. - ArtsHub
