"For five decades, Amazonian tribal leader Raoni Metuktire and Belgian director Jean-Pierre Dutilleux enlisted presidents and royals, even Pope Francis, to improve the lives of Brazil’s Indigenous peoples and protect their lands. … Behind the scenes, however, the relationship was nearing its end." - AP
The report, titled “What We Watched,” includes viewership data for the movies and television shows watched on the streaming service between January and June 2023. - Washington Post
The MPA wants legislation that would enable content companies to seek court injunctive relief that would require internet service providers and other intermediaries to disable access to an infringing site. - Deadline
We are confined to reality, but we cannot confront facts (or even make sense of them) without the salve of fiction. As Joan Didion so famously put it, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” - Washington Post
"Many, particularly members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma, welcomed the movie, applauding Scorsese for his meticulous portrayal of Osage culture. … But other Indigenous viewers said the movie was told from a white man’s perspective and lacked sufficient context about the U.S. government’s complicity in the murders." - The New York Times
The in-flight entertainment and connectivity market grew to US$5.9 billion as of 2019, a testament to its economic impact on both the airlines and the GDP of countries with airline carriers. - The Conversation
That split between the big audience on Facebook and the influential audience on Twitter was instantly obvious to anyone in any newsroom who ever cared to look. - The Verge
As more major films, including some big hits, run longer than three hours, exhibitors can schedule fewer showings per day — so they want to give the patrons another opportunity to buy popcorn and sodas. And the patrons themselves would very much like to visit the restroom. - The Hollywood Reporter
Residents in more than half of U.S. counties have very limited access to a reliable local news source. More than two newspapers a week have shut down during 2023, with just an estimated 1,200 daily papers still publishing. Since 2005, Medill reports, the number of newspaper journalists has fallen by 66%, or 43,000. - InsideRadio
Automakers have been gradually leaving AM receivers out of their new-model cars, and they really want — for legitimate reasons — to drop AM from their electric vehicles. Yet there are legitimate reasons for regulators and lawmakers to insist that AM radios remain. Ernie Smith explains. - Tedium
"KCRW, which has an annual operating budget of about $23 million, relies on member contributions and corporate sponsorships, including studios looking to promote their movies and television shows" — meaning the Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA strikes cost the station a lot of revenue. - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
This year, any discussion of Golden Globe snubs and surprises ought to start with the show itself, since this once-snubbed awards ceremony has engineered a surprising comeback. - The New York Times
"We went from not having any protections — they would be pulling our members off to go get scanned and think that was OK and they could just use it in perpetuity — and now we’ve put it into the members’ decision. They’re in the driver’s seat now." - Rolling Stone
On shows like The Jeffersons and Good Times, there were still stereotypes (hotly debated even now), but Lear's "full-rounded view of Black life in America — through characters who had failures and triumphs, struggles and aspirations — helped usher in ... the era of 'social relevance' in television." - The New York Times
