Big time players step up in big games. | | | | Solid ratings and solid overviews on The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
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| | rantnrave:// Great picks today, light on the ranting and raving given I published all weekend... Need to calm down? Click this or this... No matter what your political persuasion is, truth and transparency are paramount. Facts are facts. Sidelining data that doesn't fit your narrative is dangerous to society. Especially when other federal agencies are the first ones that need that data... Also concerned about balanced media given the new SINCLAIR deal. Need more coverage on this and the concerns given recent events... Now watching Laura Poitras ' new film RISK about WIKILEAKS' JULIAN ASSANGE... Going to STOCKHOLM in June. Where else should I go nearby?... Top 100 items on REDEF... Some of the best in-depth looks at the media business... Happy Birthday to BRIAN SUGAR, JAN FROUMAN, and WILL MOLONEY. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | The Guardian |
| On 18 November 2015, the British press gathered in a hall in Westminster to witness the official launch of Leave.EU. Nigel Farage, the campaign's figurehead, was banished to the back of the room and instead an American political strategist, Gerry Gunster, took centre stage and explained its strategy. | | |
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 | Stratechery |
| WannaCry is yet another systematic breakdown in security: the blame, though, is less with Microsoft and end users - nor the government - but rather a mismatched business model. | | |
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 | Backchannel |
| These two female technologists discuss the promises of artificial intelligence - and how to diversify the field. | | |
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 | TED Talks |
| We all go through challenges — some you can see, most you can't, says Michele L. Sullivan. In a talk about perspective, Sullivan shares stories full of wit and wisdom and reminds us that we're all part of each other's support systems. "The only shoes you can walk in are your own," she says. "With compassion, courage and understanding, we can walk together, side by side." | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| Kate Brooks, a photojournalist and director of the documentary ‘The Last Animals,’ on why the United States must take immediate action to stop the ivory trade. | | |
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 | Esquire |
| An oral history of the rise and fall of the USFL. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| Our thirty-seventh President’s disdain and distrust for journalism were part of a long history of contentious relationships between Commanders-in-Chief and the press. | | |
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 | MTV News |
| RuPaul didn’t invent drag, but after two days at his drag conference, it’s clear that none of this would exist in the mainstream, as it does today, without him | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Our culture is enriched by the melding of different artistic traditions. | | |
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 | NPR |
| Philadelphia native Gene Demby was 4 years old when city police dropped a bomb on a house of black activists in his hometown. Thirty years later, he's still trying to make sense of it all. | | |
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 | MEL Magazine |
| How the Doc Johnson sex-toy empire is entering its second generation | | |
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 | Variety |
| It came to David Lynch in a flash: A red room. A dream version of Laura Palmer. An older Special Agent Dale Cooper, silent and pensive. The Man From Another Place, speaking cryptically: “That gum y… | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| The tech giant is transforming public education with low-cost laptops and free apps. But schools may be giving Google more than they are getting. | | |
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 | Digital Trends |
| How Amanda Palmer gave the music industry the finger with crowdfunding | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Startup culture’s obsession with “side hustle” gets more unsettling the closer you look | | |
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 | The Muse |
| If you’re watching Hulu’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale, nothing sends a chill down the spine like the visage of Elisabeth Moss, Alexis Bledel, or any number of Handmaids obscured by the “wings” of lily-white bonnets and bedecked in ominous, hooded red capes. | | |
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| The Guardian |
| Festival bosses are welcoming TV shows but have banned Netflix films from the Palme d’Or | | |
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 | Columbia Journalism Review |
| Clay Johnson's 2013 book, "The Information Diet," lamented the state of people's news and media habits in the digital age. In it, he compared online users' media consumption to the obesity epidemic-we consume too little that is good for us and too much fatty, substance-less content-and laid out his "case for conscious consumption." | | |
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 | Aeon Magazine |
| Ever since Hegel, artists and critics alike have been claiming that art is finished. But what could that actually mean? | | |
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 | McKinsey & Company |
| Insurers collect a wealth of data, but few have found a way to monetize this asset. New “data as a business” models point the way forward. | | |
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 | Scientific American |
| Scientist and author Gregory Benford discusses his latest book, The Berlin Project | | |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| Unlike most of his contemporaries, newly solo One Direction star Harry Styles is performing a retro rock earnestness. But is that what listeners are looking for? | | |
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 | Privacy International |
| Recently, the data mining firm Cambridge Analytica has been the centre of tons of debate around the use of profiling and micro-targeting in political elections. We’ve written this analysis to explain what it all means, and the consequences of becoming predictable to companies and political campaigns. | | |
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