“It’s almost like mosaic work. … You have all these pieces; sometimes they’re going to be laid out in a very similar order to the book, sometimes a completely different order. Sometimes you’re going to deconstruct and rebuild completely.” - The New York Times
That means “channels such as CBS, CBS Sports, and Nickelodeon and add-ons like Paramount Plus, Showtime, and BET Plus will stick around after all” for YouTube TV subscribers. - The Verge
“Hughes’ unvarnished take on youth culture, replete with joints and F-bombs, arrived in 1985 to fill a vacuum of movies about young people in which they could see lifelike facsimiles of themselves.” Of course, the movie's casual homophobia, sexism, and racism are still around too. - The Guardian (UK)
“In January, Torres made history as the first Brazilian actor to win a Golden Globe. Brazilian fans have been euphoric ever since, exalting every social media post about her and the film with likes in the millions.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
The FCC's Brendan Carr this week leaked word to right wing propaganda mill Newsmax that he’s tasked the FCC’s enforcement bureau with launching an investigation into whether Comcast is breaking any laws (they’re not) by still having references to diversity initiatives on their website. - Techdirt
"(The) public radio and television station based in Springfield, Mass. laid off 13% of its employees on Wednesday. It's the station’s second round of layoffs since 2023, when it cut a fifth of its staff and eliminated its weekly public affairs television show Connecting Point." - WBUR (Boston)
"'The bloom is off the rose of rom-coms,' says Paul Dergarabedian, Comscore’s senior media analyst. 'There was a period in which they couldn’t miss. But then there were a number that were absolutely awful, and streaming changed things. Now you need spectacle to get audiences into theaters.'" - Variety
"Musk commented on a social media post by U.S. Special Envoy Richard Grenell, ... who said the radio networks are 'state-owned media' and 'are a relic of the past.' 'Yes, shut them down,' Musk wrote in his reply to the post. “Europe is free now … Nobody listens to them anymore." - Inside Radio
“In order to best ensure we are in compliance with the President’s executive order around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion we have closed our DEI office. The staff members who served in that office are leaving PBS. - The Hollywood Reporter
"Public radio news/talk stations KWMU (90.7) St. Louis and KCUR (89.3) Kansas City have announced plans to separate from the control of and operation by the University of Missouri-St. Louis and the University of Missouri-Kansas City, respectively." - Inside Radio
Google owns the most popular browser, on top of which is what its developers call the “omnibox” — the box that used to be the address bar, but which the company has turned into an all-purpose interface for routing users into search, around the web, through their own data. - Intelligencer (MSN)
Out of the 100 top-grossing films of last year, women led 42% of the films, the same percentage as their male counterparts, with 16% led by ensembles. - The Guardian
