If you don't get invited to this meeting and want to know what it was like, just drink a bottle of gin and then waterboard yourself. | | | | Remembering TV's Batman, Adam West.
(ABC Photo Archives/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “If you don't get invited to this meeting and want to know what it was like, just drink a bottle of gin and then waterboard yourself.”
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| | rantnrave:// Last Friday, REBECCA JARVIS of ABC NEWS and I sat down to discuss the future of media (more succinctly news) at THE BRILLIANT MINDS conference in STOCKHOLM. It’s a precarious time for the dissemination of information and journalism. And it’s at a moment when the public needs it more than ever. Trust in those institutions are depressed. Sometimes for good reason. Often not. Some of my point-of-view: Much like the internal ethos at REDEF, It's not enough to be smart anymore, you have to be curious. You should always question the underlying reason as to why you think something. Always ask why. Challenge your news sources. Seek out alternative views. Even if you disagree, understanding the other side is critical. Cynicism isn’t healthy. But a healthy skepticism is. Take care to have a balanced media diet. Take responsibility to seek truth as much as you can. Challenge the beliefs in your peer group. When seeking truth, we often defy logic or fact to be accepted by those groups or to reinforce what we thought we knew. That’s not truth. That’s not fact. That’s the dark side of human nature. We're not entitled to our own facts. Just our own interpretations. We’re the victims but need to stop blaming others. Platforms are gaining in power and wealth. We must hold them accountable for the media and news that proliferate through their ecosystems. I’m not sure how but this isn’t a printing press of old. This is instantaneous and global. And can be like a pandemic. Information is like a drug. Receiving it causes physiological changes in the body and mind. Engagement and social media are delivery systems. And engagement for business sake can be poison. Giving the people what they want can f*** the people. This is a moment and information is a great commodity and tool for unity or division. We need to own the problem... The amazing thing about WONDER WOMAN isn't the female director or female superhero, it's that anyone has reason to find those things amazing in the first place. But can these real-life action stars shatter HOLLYWOOD's glass ceiling for real? We take a look in MediaSET: "Run the World (Girls): Has 'Wonder Woman' Changed the Game?"... R.I.P. to another superhero TV's BATMAN, ADAM WEST... You don't need to go to school to learn. Ever since I was 17 years old, I learned a lot from ICE CUBE. I was working for JODY GERSON at EMI MUSIC PUBLISHING and had to listen to his first record related to some deal we had. Through his music and lyrics, he painted a picture of a world I knew nothing about. I respect his mind. Love listening to him in interviews. This week's constructive criticism of BILL MAHER is another in a long history of Cube droppin' science. I never met him, but I love him. This is the kind of dialogue the world needs... I know I'm not that bright but I know this: You can't expect morons to change or evolve. They're morons... Walking around STOCKHOLM at 3 am during summer is a trip. Complete daylight and no one on the streets or roads. Like NIGHT OF THE COMET... MICKEY DREXLER's step down from CEO at J. CREW has been called the end of an era. Debates about the company's decline have pointed to changing consumer habits, scrappier competition, product issues, and mounting debt commitments. One thing is certain: there's change—and challenge—ahead for the retailer. FashionSET: "What to Do About J. Crew"... Friend doing well; Former MTV Chief VAN TOFFLER on his new studio ... You may be a terrible parent but you really didn't have shot... Do you love long form journalism? We do. Prepare to go deep on REDEF... Happy Birthday to CAROLE ROBINSON, EMANUELE DELLA VALLE, RYAN MAGNUSSEN, and JAY HIGGINBOTHAM. And Belated to MICHAEL FERDMAN, MICHAEL CARNEY, MARK BIRNBAUM, DANIELLE PELLAND, TED BARNETT, DAN ROSENBERG, JOE FERREIRA, and JASON WITT. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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| "... a 2002 British television documentary series by filmmaker Adam Curtis. It focuses on the work of psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Anna Freud, and PR consultant Edward Bernays... "This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." - Wikipedia | | |
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 | Medium |
| True stories from the workers who spend their days on the front lines of frustration. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Under the guise of a journalist, the assassin, Artur Denisultanov-Kurmakayev, tried to murder Ms. Okuyeva and her husband, Adam Osmayev, Ukraine's Interior Ministry said. The plot went awry because Ms. Okuyeva was also armed, and the details of the attack and its aftermath are now shedding light on Kiev's role as a testing ground for what Ukrainian officials say are hybrid war activities by Russia, including assassinations. | | |
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 | Andreessen Horowitz |
| When people think of modernizing government, they tend to think of new IT, of improved procurement, of new infrastructure ... rather than social services like foster care or food stamps. But how can we actually help improve daily lives by applying tools and lessons from consumer tech to help put food on the table, or to find a safe foster home for children? | | |
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 | VideoInk |
| Amidst the maelstrom of technology shattering decades-old media-centric business models - a reality that continues to frighten many in its… | | |
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 | TechCrunch |
| We've all heard the predictions that artificial intelligence, and by extension robotics, is gunning for our jobs. Indeed, as technology marches relentlessly forward, it feels like many of today's positions could soon be displaced. | | |
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 | Teen Vogue |
| Consider Woodrow Wilson’s Committee on Public Information in 1917. | | |
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 | MUNCHIES |
| We spoke to experts on pizza and organized crime about the historical overlap between crime and America's favorite food. | | |
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 | Wired |
| Unless you have multiple myeloma, a rare and vicious cancer of the blood, chances are you haven't heard of Revlimid. The immunomodulatory drug slows the growth of new blood vessels, and it's a product of the kind of ingenuity and daring that once made the pharmaceutical industry among the most respected in America. | | |
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 | Knowledge@Wharton |
| Free shipping is ubiquitous - but it’s also delivering a significant hit to retailers. How can they escape it and leave customer loyalty intact? | | |
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 | Salon |
| From the Salon Archives: Recap of the powerful, maddening ending to HBO's groundbreaking mobster show | | |
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 | Racked |
| Shopping for Indian weddings is expensive and complicated. Does it have to be? | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| A new kind of warfare defined by powerful but shadowy ‘criminal insurgencies’ is on the rise in much of Latin America. What are we going to do about it? | | |
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 | The Associated Press |
| Deng Guilian's husband Hua Haifeng was in Ganzhou where he had been investigating working conditions at factories that until at least March made shoes for Ivanka Trump's brand | | |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| The party didn’t decide. And now Republicans are stuck with Trump. | | |
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 | Vox |
| "There is an infinite number of possible futures. Which one will actually become the future? It’s going to depend on how we behave now." | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| It's OK to wear nipple tape in L.A., writes best-selling author and cultural critic Wednesday Martin as she checks out the all-female gratification gathering and notices distinct differences across the coasts. | | |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| For a growing number of Christians in the US, faith-based health care sharing ministries seem like the perfect alternative to an expensive, volatile insurance marketplace. But there may be serious drawbacks for some members -- and for everyone else | | |
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 | The Fader |
| Since Hurricane Katrina, the owners and operators of the city’s distinct party busses have created a thriving industry around their hometown sound. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Trump reignites a long-simmering debate. We take a look at how other countries have done it. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| The White House wants to reinstate the sale of horses for slaughter, but eating horse meat has always been politically treacherous. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| The U.S. played Mexico in soccer for the first time in 1934, winning 4-2 in a World Cup qualifier. It would be 46 years and 25 games before the U.S. would win again. | | |
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 | YouTube |
| | | | | | Late to the game on this band (brothers and sister), but love the single. Love their influences. |
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