“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.
Category: media
NPR’s ‘On The Media’ Asks Public Radio Station Execs About The Network’s Looming Challenges
“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)
New Yorker TV Critic Emily Nussbaum Wins Pulitzer; Twittersphere Jumps For Joy
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.
Dear Hollywood: What Is UP With The Yellowface?!
“Which is worse: Hollywood not casting Asians to play Asians or Hollywood pretending that Asians don’t exist in the first place?”
Remember When Amazon Prime Was For Free Book Shipping?
Now you can get a Netflix-competitor standalone Amazon Prime Video service. Books? Other goods? Meh. Streaming!
For The First Time, The British Get A Series That Streams Before It Broadcasts On Regular TV
“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.”
Why Are Movies Based On Words And Not On Images?
“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.”
Record Worldwide Movie Box Office In 2015: $38.3 Billion
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.
Coming Soon: Smartphone-Friendly Movie Theatres?
“When you tell a 22-year-old to turn off the phone, don’t ruin the movie, they hear please cut off your left arm above the elbow. You can’t tell a 22-year-old to turn off their cellphone. That’s not how they live their life.”
Is This The World’s Oddest YouTube Star?
“Two years after ‘Eye to Eye’ baffled the country by giving birth to a huge cult following, the Pakistani singer Taher Shah returned this weekend with a second music video, ‘Angel,’ that has gone viral. … For most of the new video, Shah walks around a golf course wearing a tiara and a purple gown (bathrobe?), showing off his chest hair.”
