Mohammad Rasoulof (Oscar-nominated The Seed of the Sacred Fig): “Over the 15 months I have been in exile, … so many bizarre events have taken place in Iran at such an unparalleled speed that my main question is … should I stay here (in Europe), or should I go back to Iran?” - The Hollywood Reporter
Wikipedia has lost a legal challenge to new Online Safety Act rules which it says could threaten the human rights and safety of its volunteer editors. - BBC
“The loss of federal funding has led most public radio and television stations to take a fresh assessment of ... what it might take to survive the new financial reality. For some stations, one option ... is taking stock of which signals to keep and which may be better monetized through a sale.” - Inside Radio
The executive director of Alabama Public Television — which, in addition to a statewide network of PBS-affiliate TV stations, operates a public radio outlet in Huntsville — says that, due to the rescission of federal funding for public TV and radio, APT may give up NPR membership and get programming from PRX instead. - Alabama Reflector
While the law and others like it claim to be narrowly focused on pornographic content and material that promotes suicide, self-harm, eating disorders or abusive and hateful behaviour, the subjective nature of the restrictions has led to mass censorship, with the de facto removal of vast swaths of content from the web. - The Guardian
Hosting their own podcasts and making-of series, networks "try to anticipate what beats from the episode people will be talking about and then ... dive in.” But there’s a lot of marketing mixed into the content sauce. - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
On the one hand, there are quite a few data-stealing cheat systems out there. On the other hand, "your laptop’s probably never as safe as when you are playing Fortnite; anti-cheat protection will actually keep you safe from a whole range of malware.” - Wired
A zero percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes is like a 90 percent for some movie fans - a must-watch. Why? “Truly atrocious movies are preferable to those that are simply forgettable.” - BBC
“Los Angeles is a city of constant change — it reinvents itself, tearing down old buildings and putting up new ones. Hollywood is also in constant flux and turmoil. Maybe Hollywood is processing its own anxieties about change and inflicting upon its hometown.” - Los Angeles Times
Celebrity can be weird these days: “The 37-year-old actor has for years now been a subject of TikTok thirst edits and calls for him to nab the lead in the most anticipated book-to-screen adaptations of the day.” And yet, reality. - Slate
“The Emmys continue to saturate the zone with their favorite shows, clogging up the supporting performance categories (and sometimes even lead, or writing and directing) with the same titles in a single year, edging out exemplary performances.” - Vulture
"Fallon is a professional. If he has any reservations about interviewing Gutfeld, … made headlines by joking that conservatives should proudly reclaim the word ‘Nazi' like Black people have reclaimed the N-word … they’re not apparent.” - Vulture
Its infirmity has a number of culprits: superhero box office dominance, short-form videos eroding attention spans, streaming services hollowing out theatrical exhibition. - The Walrus
For dozens of stations that depend heavily on federal dollars, a slow-motion crisis is now unfolding; many are already downsizing and cutting programming, and some report that if new sources of funding do not materialize they could go dark for good. - The New Yorker
