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Ira Glass Worries That We’re Losing The War Against Disinformation

The US – like many other Western nations – has gone from a place “where it seemed like some sort of consensus was possible”, to a new order in which “​​every cultural and political moment of significance gets interpreted in two radically different ways”, with there being “very little overlap”, said Glass. - New Statesman

Hollywood Is Observing Sanctions Against Russia. Russian Cinemas Are Showing Hollywood Hits Anyway.

"More than three months into the (Ukraine) war, reports are surfacing about illicit screenings of Hollywood movies at Russian cinemas, with initial reports naming The Batman, Red Notice, Disney animation Turning Red and Michael Bay crime actioner Ambulance." - Variety

Why Diversity On Canadian TV Is Superficial

“I don’t think anyone has any idea of the cultural impact that small data set is having on the country as a whole,” says the APTN’s Jones. Coles has some idea. One of the findings that surprised her most was how much an “imagined audience” was used to justify decisions “laced with racism, sexism, homophobia.” - The Walrus

Could Software Flag Students At Risk Of Doing Harm? Early Tests Suggest Maybe Not

What they claim to do is to scan billions of social media posts with really sophisticated AI to identify threats of potential violence or self-harm. ... These models may not be very sophisticated or that this might be a really hard problem to solve even if the models are very sophisticated. - Slate

Top Gun Reboot Breaks Box Office Records

Those returns rank among the top 10 highest-grossing second weekends in domestic box office history. They also push “Top Gun: Maverick” to $291 million in North America, enough to overtake 2005’s “War of the Worlds” ($243 million) as Cruise’s highest-grossing film ever at the domestic box office. - Variety

Is Netflix Pivoting To Studio Dinosaur Status?

 For much of its existence, Netflix has thought of itself as a tech company, moving fast and breaking things; now it’s seeking to emulate the dinosaurs it once thought it would effortlessly replace. - The New Republic

Hollywood Makes Progressive Movies? The Data Say Otherwise

I’ll stipulate that the people who make movies may skew progressive in their beliefs, commitments and voting patterns. The movies themselves tell another story. - The New York Times

All About Green Screens

"For more than a century, filmmakers have been using the 'green screen' technique. ... So where did it come from? And why is it so popular? And most importantly: why is it green? It's time, for once, to let the green screen occupy the foreground instead of the background." - Quartz

Legislature Defunds Iowa Public Radio, Which Expects No Major Changes As A Result

"The good news is that the public broadcast group has been operating without much help from the state or its Board of Regents for years, … with more than 75% of its funding coming from individuals, businesses, and corporations." - Inside Radio

David Cronenberg On Our Bodies And The Future Of Movies

One of the things that brought me back to moviemaking was Netflix and the idea of streaming and a streaming series. I think theaters are dead. I think they’ll be a niche thing for superhero movies. I haven’t gone to the cinema for decades. You know, I just prefer to watch it at home. - APNews

This Streaming Video Service Relies On An Army Of Unpaid, And Extremely Diligent, Subtitlers

Viki (meaning "video wiki"), which specializes in programming from East Asia, has an estimated 100,000 volunteers subtitling in 150 languages for 53 million subscribers. Those translators are fiercely proud of their work and say they have to redo the work of paid translators. (They went on strike over machine translation.) - Vulture

We Do Not Have “Catastrophic Levels Of People Leaving”, Says NPR Senior VP

The departure in particular of hosts Audie Cornish (All Things Considered), Noel King (Morning Edition) and Lulu Garcia-Navarro (Weekend Edition), all women of color, drew considerable criticism. SVP Anya Grundmann said that there's simply a competitive market (all three left for commercial media jobs) and NPR's overall staff turnover is low. - Press Gazette

Five Takeaways From This Year’s Cannes Festival

That’s 107 films, 11 days, and flickering images that don’t stop playing in your mind after the credits end. - Screen Daily

Latest Horror Show: Movie Theatres Worry About Popcorn Shortage

Theaters are finding workers harder to hire, and inflation is hitting costs. Perhaps most chilling, supply-chain issues are foreshadowing shortages behind the concession stand, a crucial profit driver for theaters. - The Wall Street Journal

The Very Tricky Art Of Translating And Subtitling Streaming TV Series

After the English subtitles for Squid Game attracted a lot of criticism, "improving the quality of translated content has become a priority for streamers increasingly tapping into their international resources for the next big hit. It's a process that generally unfolds over the course of five steps." - Vulture

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