'In 2019, franchise movies took 83% of worldwide box office for Hollywood movies. If they fell back a little and made space for the kinds of movies that have been squeezed out, it might mean one less pay cheque for a few seasoned actors, but it could make all the difference for the future of cinema.'
Sunday 24 April 2022
Wednesday 13 April 2022
Time Out ceases print publication Is paper dead?
Joining the Independent, NME and many local papers the London listings magazine Time Out has ceased print publishing, going online only.
The US has seen a swfiter, deeper collapse of print news media and online migration of these - can the UK really sustain 9 national print dailies (counting the Metro but not FT)?
GUARDIAN, APRIL 2022.
Monday 4 April 2022
Tiny Twitter shapes perception of media political elites
Guardian ‘ As of 2021, only 28% of the UK populationuses Twitter. But it has outsize influence. What matters is who is on there: which people are experiencing the white-hot anger of engaging daily with the timeline. “Political elites are on Twitter every day, and for all the warnings that Twitter isn’t real life, it feels like real life to them,” said Ezra Klein, the author of Why We’re Polarised, in a 2020 interview with the Verge. “They’re stuck in a hyper-polarised informational system and it influences the candidates they support, the messages they emphasise, the stories they focus on.”
Klein was speaking about US politics but his analysis applies to Britain too. It’s not just British politicians: it’s our media class – celebrities as well. If you have a public profile, the likelihood is that you’re on Twitter and active. It influences which topics are afforded importance: this week we saw Kay Burley ask Angela Rayner about whether women could have a penis, a question the Labour deputy leader quite rightly said was prominent on social media. These discussions then spill over into policy, as we saw this week when the government excluded trans people from a ban on conversion practices.’
Guardian, April 2022
Sunday 3 April 2022
From BBC Radio 6 to Patreon spare room star
Loved the station but not this presenter - great example of the power of convergence though: to leave the mighty BBC, launch out on your own and have such success with 2 podcasts and a weekly radio show that you’re actually considering creating your own station…
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