Category: media

“In our initial resolution, we tried, but failed to come up with a ‘one-size-fits-all’ definition of activity,” the governors told members in the letter, which was sent on Monday.

“There are myriad issues – the shift toward digital streaming, an aging listenership, the rise of commercial podcasting – plaguing public radio, and more specifically, NPR. Bob [Garfield] takes a hard look at how NPR member stations and the mothership are dealing with this tangled web of challenges, and considers what the future might hold for the public media institution.” (audio)

As it happens, Nussbaum is the second female television critic in a row to take the prize, which went to The Los Angeles Times’s Mary McNamara last year.

“Which is worse: Hollywood not casting Asians to play Asians or Hollywood pretending that Asians don’t exist in the first place?”

Now you can get a Netflix-competitor standalone Amazon Prime Video service. Books? Other goods? Meh. Streaming!

“We have to recognise that young people don’t watch TV the way we did. … It’s very much in the spirit of New Blood that the show will premiere on iPlayer.”

“For 8,000 years we’ve had lyric poetry, for 400 years we’ve had the novel, theatre hands its meaning down in text. Let’s find a medium whose total, sole responsibility is the world as seen as a form of visual intelligence. Surely, surely, surely the cinema should be that phenomenon.”

The worldwide film market increased 5% in 2015 thanks to billion-dollar films including “Jurassic World,” “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” according to a report released Tuesday by the Motion Picture Assn. of America.