Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself. | | | | Gene Wilder in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory."
(Paramount Pictures) | | | | |  | “Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.”
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| | rantnrave:// A few of our new REDEF HOT TAKES on media from MATT BALL: CBS. VIACOM. SONY. AMC. LIONSGATE. MGM. DISCOVERY. Depending on the day, FACEBOOK / AMAZON / APPLE / NETFLIX / GOOGLE are rumored to be buying one of these media companies. Here's a take on why these rumors might never come to fruition. Why FAANG is unlikely to buy a legacy media company... By focusing on the past, the DoJ seems focused on preventing AT&T from doing the very things it needs to do to protect consumers -- fight hard, deep and long for the OTT future of video. The DOJ has missed the point of AT&T-TIME WARNER... To save award shows, we don’t need new categories or shorter runtimes. We need new experiences. If the shows are about the nominees, ratings shouldn’t matter. But if they do, then the show needs to care about and involve the audience. Award Show Ratings Keep Falling, and the Shows Don’t do Anything to Stop it... They had four guitarists, a s***ty name and they wanted you to fall in love with IRON MAIDEN, BLINK-182, and SUGAR RAY all over again. Somehow, it worked. A fond farewell to unlikely punk-pop legends who finally, um, stopped pooping in 2018. MusicREDEF's MATTY KARAS takes a look in "Once There Was a Band Called Diarrhea Planet"... One of my favorite people on this planet is my friend CASEY WASSERMAN. The kind of guy that sticks with you when you're hot and when you're cold. We live down the block from one another but I don't see him as much as I'd like because, well, I'm a flake sometimes. But we caught up last night for dinner. His son EMMET joined us. Do you want to feel old? Hang out with EMMET. His computer set-up makes WAR GAMES' DAVID LIGHTMAN look like a rank amateur. I collect sneakers. So does he. But I have AIR FORCE 1's and ADIDAS ORIGINALS. And he has pairs that look like NASA designed them. And then he got to talking about video games and e-sports. Didn't understand a word he was saying. Now I know how my father felt when I would roll my eyes at him when he would say, "punch it into the Google." The world doesn't stop. I love the kid, but when you do cool finding for a living and you sit with a teenager and it's like you're in a quantum physics class after you finished remedial math, it's time for some tutoring... I don’t want hype men at legitimate news organizations. In print. On air. Online. Or on TWITTER. Looks suspect. Cheapens the truth... Let's face it. It's also "ALEXA and chill" now too. She's in the bedroom... I f***ing knew it. It's not just that the octopus liked ME... Help me. Been looking for AIR ROYAL MID PATENT LEATHER 2010 for 9 years... Happy Birthday to the great JANE ROSENTHAL (Executive producer of the new doc, QUINCY on NETFLIX), STEVE STANFORD, RICHARD GLOSSER, and DAN BURRELL. Belated to LORIEN GABEL, GIDEON GREENBERG, MARC SHEDROFF, DAVID PORTNY, CAROLINE BERTHET, BRUCE GERSH, and HEATHER MOOSNICK. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | The Washington Post |
| When confronting a challenging problem, it's sometimes useful to listen to someone who looks at it from an entirely different angle. That's why I found it fascinating to talk about the rise of populism and nativism with Bono last weekend at a summit in Kiev. | | |
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| HBO is one of the most successful media brands in history. But like all businesses, it will still need to change and grow if it wants to remain king. Over-the-top distribution means far more than just changing screens. | | |
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| To continue to win, HBO needs to grow – but it doesn't need to sacrifice its identity. There can be a bigger and stronger version of the HBO we love today. Here's how. | | |
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 | Columbia Journalism Review |
| Podcasting was supposed to be one of the saviors of digital media--inexpensive, addicting, profitable, and popular. But now it’s like the old line from baseball legend Yogi Berra: “That place is so popular, no one goes there any more.” | | |
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 | CB Insights |
| The Bloomberg Terminal's success in the 1980s birthed an empire. Today, that empire is under siege from competitors, government regulations, and the changing nature of finance itself. | | |
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 | Longreads |
| New books about the opioid crisis -- “Dopesick,” “Fight for Space” and “American Fix” -- have different ideas about who’s to blame and what to do next. Our critic says regulating supply can have deadly consequences, and we need to address users’ pain. | | |
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 | Vox |
| "Dinner and a movie" is taking on a whole new meaning. | | |
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 | recode |
| Business of Fashion editor in chief Imran Amed explains how the industry is becoming more explicitly political on the latest Recode Media. | | |
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 | Caspar |
| I sat down with the boss of YouTube's business, Robert Kyncl and asked him some important questions. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Here’s what the Amazon founder’s vast fortune tells us about the economic concentration of the tech industry - and how he might help unravel that for the world. | | |
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 | TED Talks |
| Archaeologist and curator Chip Colwell collects artifacts for his museum, but he also returns them to where they came from. In a thought-provoking talk, he shares how some museums are confronting their legacies of stealing spiritual objects and pillaging ancient graves -- and how they're bridging divides with communities who are demanding the return of cultural treasures. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| "Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker." When Brian Koppelman was an 8-year-old playing in his first five-card draw game, his sleepaway camp bunkmates cleaned him out. That day, he parted ways with his entire canteen stash: a cool $30. | | |
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 | PopMatters |
| The megamix is a variegated mural, with flashes of color -- neon pink, chartreuse, head-gash red -- popping off chipped concrete, an amalgamation of flavor so fresh it strains the vision, so vivid it glows. | | |
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 | ESPN |
| Mavericks' owner Mark Cuban gets emotional reacting to the findings of the sexual harassment investigation against the team’s former CEO and President Terdema Ussery. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Win the Future set out to reinvigorate the Democratic Party. Instead it built a quiz app. | | |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| USCIS Director Lee Francis Cissna is the son of an immigrant, the son-in-law of a refugee and a man who says he’s just obsessed with the fair implementation of laws. So why is he making them so much harder for immigrants? | | |
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 | Vice |
| From hosting champagne-drenched ragers on the French Riviera to helping arrange funding for the 'The Wolf of Wall Street,' Jho Low seemed to have it all--until his world started falling apart. | | |
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 | Fortune Magazine |
| Boston University's Dr. Sandro Galea cites the example of transgender rights--and how politics affect well-being. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| As voice-controlled AI creeps into millions of homes, a modern dilemma presents itself: how does one properly address a virtual being? | | |
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 | BREAKER |
| A new wave of startups is offering a fundamentally different approach to data collection and use. | | |
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 | Salon |
| Salon talks to filmmaker Dominic Gagnon, who watched more than 400 hours of vlogger footage to make his new doc | | |
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 | Aeon Magazine |
| It’s difficult to test whether poverty relief actually works. Do randomised controlled trials provide a scientific measure? | | |
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 | YouTube |
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| | My baby niece Amelie was singing this yesterday. Proud uncle. She discovered Prince on her own. |
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