Media Bits and Bytes – May 30, 2023
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The endless tentacles of ad tech
The endless tentacles of ad tech
The endless tentacles of ad tech
Tidbits – May 11, 2023 – Reader Comments: GOP Defends Sex Offender; Debt Crisis; Child Labor Laws, Population Decline; Yes, I Am Latina. And No, I Am Not Mexican -an Exchange; Vietnam 50 Years Later; Charlene Mitchell Memorial Livestream Link; More
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Reader Comments: GOP Defends Sex Offender; Debt Crisis; Child Labor Laws, Population Decline; Yes, I Am Latina. And No, I Am Not Mexican -An Exchange; Vietnam 50 Years Later; Charlene Mitchell Memorial Livestream Link; Yuri Kochiyama; more
Media Bits and Bytes – May 2, 2023
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Tucker, Lemon, BuzzFeed, Vice News – dropping like flies
tv
Beef Is the Best Show Netflix Has Had in Recent Memory
Vox
Netflix and A24’s Beef is astounding, anti-ambient TV.
film
What Noah Baumbach’s White Noise Is Really About
Vox
Death, supermarkets, and an airborne toxic event.
tv
I Loved Seeing Black Characters in Wednesday — But They Deserved Better
Refinery29
It’s not surprising that the Black characters in Wednesday don’t feel like there was any intention behind their Blackness.
labor
Why Music Supervisors Are Clashing With Netflix
Los Angeles Times
Music supervisors requested Netflix and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers voluntarily recognize their union earlier this year, which would have skipped the step of a formal election, but they declined.
film
Jamie Foxx’s Day Shift Is Another Big-Budget Netflix Mediocrity
Jacobin
With a solid premise about working-class vampire hunters, Day Shift had real potential — but there’s no escaping the Netflix curse.
tv
Free Anna Delvey!
Jacobin
No one deserves riches, and yet we all do. This moral puzzle is key to our love for Anna Delvey, the con artist and “fake German heiress” who is the subject of Netflix’s flawed but irresistible series Inventing Anna.
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