Losing the rest of the public funding is likely to make the problem worse. In the face of cuts, many stations are issuing renewed appeals to their traditional donor base, making public radio even more reliant on private donations and an audience that’s older, whiter, and richer than the average American. - NiemanLab
“Fifteen employees were told that their positions were being eliminated, according to a statement from President and CEO Susan Goldberg. She cited the loss of federal funding and said that staff numbers were being reduced ‘as contracts and seasons end.’” - Boston.com
BBC Director-General Tim Davie and BBC News chief executive Deborah Turness resigned after the leak of a memo about the editing, for the show Panorama, of Trump’s speech just before the US Capitol invasion in January 2021. Trump’s attorneys have threatened suit unless the network retracts the show and pays compensation. - The London Standard
"I actually think that the decline of trust has to do with newspapers’ becoming more responsible, more accurate. Nobody I know would trade today’s newspaper for one from 1960." - Harper's
And it benefits literally everyone, advocates say, including the audience. “If everyone feels like this is a safe set and they can do their best work, the work will just be better.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
Vince Gilligan of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, on his new series Pluribus: "The concept of the others being in sync telepathically led to us hiring our first-time choreographer, ever. Technically, I think he's billed as a movement coordinator or a movement designer.” - Collider
“Gurinder Chadha was wandering through the Charles Dickens Museum in London, trying to commune with the author’s spirit. ‘If you were alive today,’ the film-maker asked him, ‘what story would you tell?’” - The Guardian (UK)
The e-commerce wing is now as big as EBay, despite all of the news that the app would be banned. Think billions of dollars - in only two years of existence. - Wired
Netflix has ordered 34 reality shows this year, way more than ever before. Why? Well: “They’re expanding the universe of big-budget, high-profile, high-concept reality series because their research tells them that’s what the audience wants.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
If Skydance Paramount Warner Bros Discovery becomes real, “this is probably the last mega deal we will see. The cable network assets are the problem. ... What's left will be studios, streaming, broadcast in some combination of that. And that's the end of it.” - Wall Street Journal
Ouch, just ouch. “The writing suggests that ChatGPT was asked to emulate Fifty Shades’ E. L. James, and however cringeworthy and brand-name-peppered that sounds, I can promise you it’s so much worse.” - The Atlantic
“Superficially, at least, Hamnet fits better in the traditional mold of Oscars-friendly fare.” And that’s what scares fans of Sinners and One Battle After Another. - Vulture
Of course, Kate Hawley also “looked at Lord Bryon. ‘He’s an artist finding his muse. He’s not a scientist in the way that we traditionally know it, this is art that he’s building. We looked at all those references with bohemian irreverence and the way he wears his clothes.’” - Variety
