While it seemingly has attracted broad interest, many users who attempted to sign up for Truth Social accounts on Monday (Feb. 21) have reported encountering error messages reading “Something went wrong. Please try again” when they have tried to sign up. - Variety
It's not just about music, but "as Latin music’s popularity balloons well beyond the Hispanic community, podcasters see opportunities for additional growth." Podcasts, like a lot of media in the US, need to expand beyond a majority white, mainly affluent audience. - Los Angeles Times
A new show with veteran journalist Lisa Ling does what Ling's 10-year-old self could only imagine. "Food and travel shows sometimes take an idealistic approach, positioning food as a unifier," but in this one, "Food has become a vehicle for unlocking stories that have gone untold." - HuffPost
Shows like Who Do You Think I Am have "this effect of normalizing disability and showing us that people with Down syndrome are part of our culture and part of our society and part of our stories." - CBC
The streamer is always on the hunt for new talent, so an emerging director showcase is logical. One director: "I jokingly say it’s like film school but . ... It gives you a sense of what that real film world is going to be like." - Los Angeles Times
Only pundits know, and even they don't really know much. "The Academy declared 276 films from 2021 as Oscar-eligible, and much of the responsibility for spotlighting films falls on bloggers and columnists." But Film Twitter isn't real-life voting. - Variety
On the good side, "you no longer have to shell out hundreds of dollars for a VHS set or rely on pirated versions of new episodes with subtitles made by fans who took liberties of their own in the translation." On the other side, wow, so many streamers. - Vulture
Titane is not easy to parse. "Julia Ducournau is willing to explore the strange, to show us our own bodies, soft and hard, that surprise and fail us, that are the source of pain and pleasure, leak strange fluids, grow old or ugly." - Los Angeles Review of Books
What's that about? "There’s a great artistic freedom in horror that’s perhaps not available in other genres. Obviously, in a drama, you can’t have a worm growing out of someone’s nostril, or something else so bold or artistic. But horror has really incredible freedom." - The New York Times
In Berlin, during the many nasal swab tests, "I look up and to the right as the technician inserts the little wand, either affecting an air of nonchalance or pretending I’ve been struck by a highly original thought. I know others make idle chitchat." - The New York Times
In the most heavily armed country, the presence of guns isn’t considered out of the ordinary, especially in states with open-carry laws. That familiarity extends to Hollywood sets, where guns are often treated with nonchalance. - The Atlantic
In his new book, Chávez uses media industry data and 50 interviews with public media workers to argue that NPR’s growth has come at the expense of serving Latinx audiences in the U.S. - NiemanLab
"Rogan is not just a purveyor of right-wing ideologies. He has built an empire by introducing these ideas — and a wide range of others — to listeners across the political spectrum. His unique skill is drawing from that spectrum a massive, young, largely male audience that advertisers highly covet." - Nieman Lab
Bruno Aiub, who uses the nom de microphone Monark and who models his very popular podcast (titled Flow) on Rogan's, made an argument this week that, on free-speech grounds, Brazil's Nazi party should no longer be outlawed. And the merda hit the fan. - The New York Times
Those people being the heirs of star Gregory Peck and the producer and director of the 1962 film version. Executor Tonja Carter (as she's done in other cases) argued that the aged Lee was basically tricked into signing the earlier contract. The court disagreed. - The New York Times
