Category: media

“The goal is to dot the country with 100-watt transmitters, primarily in urban areas, and restore some of the diversity lost to corporate consolidation of radio.”

“[There’s a] growing crop of film-makers drawn towards the country’s spectacular rural interior, which is starting to take a place as central to Turkish cinema as the American west once was to Hollywood.”

“The best music supervisors are sought for their combination of tastemaker, curator, producer, stickler for accuracy and verisimilitude, and they filter out a filmmaker’s worst tendencies.”

“In a business where effects-laden movies helped Hollywood make a record-setting $10.8 billion last year, many of the studios that create those effects are barely staying afloat.”

“Cablevision, a New York-based cable TV provider, filed an antitrust lawsuit against Viacom on Tuesday in federal court hoping to stop the media conglomerate from forcing Cablevision to pay for channels its customers don’t watch.”

“Apple has agreed to hand out more than $100 million in iTunes store credits to settle a lawsuit alleging that its iPhone and iPad apps allowed children to make purchases without their parent’s knowledge or consent.”

“The persistent irony of the Film Independent Spirit Awards is that as much as they’re positioned as the DIY antidote to the Academy Awards, the indie film with the most Oscars recognition almost invariably reaps the greatest rewards.” This year that film was Silver Linings Playbook (four awards); most of the other winners were also Oscar nominees.

“Ken Taylor would like to set the historical record straight about what happened after the U.S. embassy was overrun by militants on Nov. 4, 1979, and six Americans found safe haven in a pair of official Canadian residences.”

“Sunday’s telecast of the 85th annual Oscars on ABC rose above 40 million viewers for just the second time in six years, and also spiked among the younger adults the Academy was hoping to reach.”

“Is art supposed to make us better people, give us moral instruction, work toward the social good or exist merely for our personal pleasure? Above all, does it have to be true?”