I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream. | | | | Disney CEO Bob Iger and Mickey Mouse. Disney gets Fox. Ithaca College 2 - Harvard University 0.
(Drew Angerer/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.”
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| | rantnrave:// DISNEY gets FOX. ITHACA 2. HARVARD 0. The enormity of Disney's success is without precedent, but so too are the company's future successes, challenges, and opportunities. Here, REDEF traces, critiques and prognosticates all three in MediaSET: "Walt's Way: What Disney Has Achieved But Must Yet Become"... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN's show, "Springsteen on Broadway" is coming to NETFLIX. This is a big deal. Just another example of the SVOD service moving into new categories with marquee talent. If you've seen the show, you know his intimate storytelling and songbook is THE BOSS at his finest. The show lives at the WALTER KERR theater in NYC. It's a small theater. Under a 1000 seats. So, it's really Netflix that's going to be bringing that experience to the masses at a time when we need to hear more from Bruce about his life experience and ours. Expect more programming coups in music from the service... Move over, vinyl: A growing community of rappers and underground rockers is embracing a cheaper, more flexible and more defiantly vintage format. MusicREDEF's MATTY KARAS covers this in MusicSET: "Rewind to the Future: The Unlikely Resurgence of Cassettes"... HOLLYWOOD surfed a nice wave of cable, DVDs and such for decades. They dealt with technology like I run the marathon. They took short money in lieu of long-term strategy. They played it safe for WALL ST. Now, at the edge, let's see what these highly paid leaders can do... Many of my favorite people such as ROB GOLDBERG and ZANDER LURIE sing the praises of PHIL HELLMUTH. I traded emails with him when he released his book, #POSITIVITY. Apparently, a few people thought I should read it. Go figure. Clearly, the theory works for him. Congrats to Phil on his 15th WORLD SERIES OF POKER (WSOP) championship win. That's sort of positively insane. Phil gave my late friend (who I miss very much), DAVE GOLDBERG's family his 14th "bracelet" when Dave passed away... I think we're all going to be OK! ... The double espresso was admittedly a mistake. I apologize to the PANDORA board for drinking that at dinner... Happy Birthday to VIVI ZIGLER, ANDREW E. VOGEL, JEANNE DESANCTIS, JEFFREY GOLDSTEIN, and LORI CONKLING. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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| Zuckerberg talks about everything from China to Infowars to whether he should be fired over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. | | |
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 | Vox |
| A new book explores the history of individualism in the West. | | |
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 | The Line of Best Fit |
| Forget established stations and music journalists, if you want to keep your finger on the pulse of music and the creative underground, internet radio is the place to go. | | |
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 | Forbes |
| Papa John's founder John Schnatter’s alleged behavior ranges from spying on his workers to sexually inappropriate conduct, which has resulted in at least two confidential settlements. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Using economic game theory to try and understand the relationship between Trump and Putin. | | |
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 | BuzzFeed News |
| Lane Davis was a far-right, pro-Trump media figure looking for his big break. Then he stabbed his father to death. | | |
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 | Consequence of Sound |
| In a few short years, American festivals went from cultural phenomena to endangered species. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| The drawings, scratchings and markings left by American soldiers are small acts of rebellion on the battlefield, where there is little room for dissent. | | |
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 | Wired |
| In the beginning there was phone phreaking and worms. Then came spam and pop ups. And none of it was good. But in the nascent decades of the internet, digital networks were detached and isolated enough that the average user could mostly avoid the nastiest stuff. | | |
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 | ProPublica |
| Without any public scrutiny, insurers and data brokers are predicting your health costs based on data about things like race, marital status, how much TV you watch, whether you pay your bills on time or even buy plus-size clothing. | | |
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 | Philadelphia Inquirer |
| The Made in America founder and platinum-selling rapper says he is a disappointed in the city's decision to move the Made in America music festival from the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. | | |
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 | AnandTech |
| In the past, we've mentioned that in the semiconductor industry there are a few individuals that are more than worthy of the term 'rockstar'. These individuals, no matter where they are, shake up their industry and often do it many times over their career. | | |
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 | The Verge |
| Looking for connections in 2018. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Democracy is threatened by organisations such as the Institute of Economic Affairs that refuse to reveal who funds them, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot | | |
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 | Slate |
| Reed Hastings is still in the early stages of a very long game. | | |
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 | New Republic |
| A new book examines the making of a completely preventable health crisis. | | |
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 | Macleans |
| The Leviathan II whale-watching ship capsized last October, killing six. For the first time, the survivors and rescuers recount how the tragedy unfolded. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| In 2014, former Sony studio boss Amy Pascal worked out a complex agreement with Marvel Studios head honcho Kevin Feige: The two would share custody of Spider-Man. The radioactive-blooded hero would appear in films such as Avengers: Infinity War and Captain America: Civil War within the Disney-distributed Marvel Cinematic Universe, while Sony would continues to release his solo movies, as it had done since the early '00s. | | |
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 | BBC News |
| Rose gold clothes, shoes, furniture, cars, weddings -- why is this colour still so popular? | | |
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 | Longreads |
| How is it possible for a whole country to fall into the hands of a tyrant? According to Shakespeare, it could not happen without widespread complicity. | | |
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