Category: media

“I thought it would be not only technically almost impossible but just the nature of the material. It should be made cheaply and it could not be. It was very hard to crack it.”

“The footage is believed to be the earliest surviving work credited to Hitchcock, as well as the earliest surviving production the filmmaker worked on with Alma Reville, whom he married in 1926.”

Slate (once again) proves that analysis and enjoyment are not always contingent on depth of knowledge.

“They did not actually have jobs at Apple. It was freelance work that came with nothing in the way of a regular income, health insurance or retirement plan. Instead, the Grimeses tried to prepare by willingly, even eagerly, throwing overboard just about everything they could.”

“It is Greenaway’s long-held belief that cinema has somehow missed its calling. It’s a visual medium in thrall to the written word. ‘Whether you’re Godard or Almodovar or Scorsese, it’s text, text, text. Everything begins with the text and this is a source of great anguish to me. So please let cinema get on with doing what it does best, which is expressing ideas in visual terms.'”

“As competition for eyeballs intensifies with the fading dominance of broadcast television, the notion of “big idea” programming has come to hold and more and more importance when it comes to deciding what we’ll be watching the following fall.”

“Will the Wii U and its new controller change the way people play games? Possibly. Will the Wii U achieve the same level of success that the original Wii did (nearly 100 million consoles sold)? Probably not. … But I am confident enough to make one big prediction: The Wii U will revolutionize the way we watch television.”

Arbitron ratings indicate that KUSC radio has lost nearly two-thirds of its listeners since 2009. Yet station managers, saying that revenue has grown slightly (about 3%) during that time and donor rolls have increased by 6% in the past year, argue that Arbitron’s sampling models must be wrong.

“Three of the best-known shows on Ontario’s public television network have been cancelled as TVO moves to cut $2 million from its budget … TVO says between 35 and 40 jobs will be affected, between now and the end of March.”

“YouTube is reinvesting in 40 per cent of the channels that have already launched. That means more than half of the channels have failed to catch on, yet is still a rate of success that any network programmer would kill for.”