Well, for the character and in life, it’s about the love of the person you’re grieving for, and any time you can keep company with that fire, it is warm. I absolutely relate to that, and I don’t think you ever work through it. Grief and loss, those are things that don’t ever go away. They stay with you. | | | | British rock band, Def Leppard, circa 1985. “So let’s face facts here, if alcoholism, car crashes and cancer couldn’t kill us, the Nineties had no f***ing chance!” - Joe Elliott, lead singer. I lived for "Pyromania." Perfect album.
(Hulton Archive/Getty Images) | | | | | | “Well, for the character and in life, it’s about the love of the person you’re grieving for, and any time you can keep company with that fire, it is warm. I absolutely relate to that, and I don’t think you ever work through it. Grief and loss, those are things that don’t ever go away. They stay with you.”
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| | rantnrave:// I sat down for the third time with the great PETER KAFKA for the RECODE MEDIA podcast wherein we discussed the streaming wars, the REDEF JEEP, HULU, DISNEY, WARNERMEDIA, APPLE, KEVIN MAYER, RANDY FREER, JOHN STANKEY, PANDORA, ROGER LYNCH, ALEC BALDWIN, JONAH HILL, SICARIO, and SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO, NETFLIX, appetite for SVOD, PRIME VIDEO, MOFFETTNATHANSON, FILMSTRUCK, functionality versus content, MATT BALL, HBO, RICHARD PLEPLER, importance of executive talent, TOBY EMMERICH, KEVIN REILLY, LISA NISHIMURA, SCOTT STUBER, CINDY HOLLAND, BOB GREENBLATT, JOSH SAPAN, RANDALL STEPHENSON, TED SARANDOS, REED HASTINGS, lying to my girlfriend, ROLE MODELS, STARZ, FIRE TV, CBS, VIACOM, BEAR GRYLLS, watching THE SOPRANOS 13 times, DAVID GREENBAUM, FOX INNOVATION LABS, FORTNITE, VR, THE MARTIAN, PAUL MCCARTNEY, DREAMSCAPE, IP universes, OSCARS, SPIELBERG and Netflix, JASON KILAR, GEORGE KLIAVKOFF, PEN15, cable subsidization of OTT content, food shows, LIVE NATION, SIRIUSXM, SCOTT GREENSTEIN, JIM MEYER and more. And if you're not sick of me and want to end it all as these people did, well, then there's more. This one, of course, "REDEF CEO Jason Hirschhorn watches a lot of TV and he says Netflix has sucked him into watching less of everything else." and previous pods: our first one, "Jason Hirschhorn's personal network saved his life." The second installment, "Jason Hirschhorn discusses media moguls, the virtues of taking time off and how Netflix outsmarted the TV guys"... Do you read MusicREDEF? Well, it's even better than MediaREDEF. Our own MATTY KARAS does a stellar job. Subscribe here... My name is Jason. I am 48 years-old and I'm going to buy this... Happy Birthday to SIMON SIJUN KIM (his restaurant COTE is heaven), JONATHAN GLICKMAN, SUZI MATTHEWS, JOE MICHAELS, LAURA BENJAMIN, JON DUBE, JENNIFER MILLER BROWN | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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| Facebook, Google, Twitter and other major platforms helped us to connect, entertain and learn. The benefits have been obvious. But now, so are the dangers. Engagement and revenue over well-being? Are we addicted? Election influence. Fake news. Bullying bots. Treating users like Pavlovian dogs. Do we understand the effects? Do the platforms' founders? | | |
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| Mellody Hobson (President, Ariel Investments) sits down with Jason Hirschhorn to discuss the influences and mentors over her career; the role of a board member in good times and in crisis; addressing diversity in businesses, community and content; and the future of media. | | |
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| Is engagement with current affairs key to being a good citizen? Or could an endless torrent of notifications be harming democracy as well as our wellbeing? | | |
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| Conservative judges are advancing a vision of a country divided by religion, culture, and race, where Christians, white men, and corporate interests get special constitutional protection. We need a strategy to respond. | | |
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| When Amazon was in trouble back in 2001, Jeff Bezos called professor and "Good to Great" author Jim Collins -- and became his best student ever. | | |
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| Watching Rickie Fowler at the PGA Championship taught a valuable lesson of what separates golf's greatest from everyone else. | | |
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| The company has claimed credit for reviving south and west side communities, even as it’s filed more than 9,000 eviction cases since 2009. | | |
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| Celebrities act as a symbol of capitalism. When we question it, we question them too. | | |
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| It started in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2018, when 100 employees walked out of Google's office at 11:10 a.m. local time. Thirteen hours later, the elevators at the company's New York City headquarters were so packed that workers took the stairs down to the street to protest. | | |
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| Like the sleeper hit “Unplanned,” recent legislation in Georgia, Alabama, and Ohio strenuously avoids the complexities of pregnancy and childbirth. | | |
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| In the seven episodes of his Showtime series Who is America? Sacha Baron Cohen played a series of characters thrown into meeting real people, and served up some of the year’s finest laughs, even as… | | |
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| It's about 24 hours before the NFL draft, and Jacksonville Jaguars co-owner Tony Khan has just exited a meeting with a Pro Bowler he's eager to sign. | | |
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| Commentary: Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and P&G chief brand officer Marc Pritchard on how men can help women after #MeToo. | | |
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| Microsoft is taking the world's second-best-selling game of all time into augmented reality. But will the push to net even more players stretch the game's DNA past breaking point? | | |
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| The rise of Deontay Wilder, Tyson Fury, and Anthony Joshua has coincided with a transformation of the way that boxing is broadcast and sold in America. | | |
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| "The series didn't work because you had to watch it." Hat tip to Hayes MacArthur. | | |
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| As killings climb, evangelical ministers try gangs’ methods to stem the carnage. | | |
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| In recent years, the threats posed by AI to democracies through hacking, manipulation, and disinformation campaigns have garnered public attention. However, technologies of the future could also enhance both the craft and the business of journalism, and create new opportunities for civic engagement. | | |
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| To save the Church, Catholics must detach themselves from the clerical hierarchy--and take the faith back into their own hands. | | |
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| Endless Mayfly1 is an Iran-aligned network of inauthentic websites and online personas used to spread false and divisive information primarily targeting Saudi Arabia, the United States, and Israel. Using this network as an illustration, this report highlights the challenges of investigating and addressing disinformation from research and policy perspectives. | | |
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| Facebook has heralded artificial intelligence as a solution to its toxic content problems. Mike Schroepfer, its chief technology officer, says it won’t solve everything. | | |
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| Some CEOs buy sports teams. Les Wexner bought the town of New Albany, Ohio. | | |
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