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We Should Teach Media Literacy in Elementary School
Helping children distinguish fake from real news will give them a lifelong benefit. By Prateek Puri.
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6 Mega-Corporations Control 90% of the American TV and Radio Media Stations
Mainstream media in the US is consolidated to such a point there are now 6 gigantic corporations that control 90% of the American TV and radio media stations. The consumer is fed the illusion of choice, but there are a small handful of elite individuals now dictating what you allowed to see, hear, read and, ultimately, think. Beware! The mainstream media consolidation now has a stranglehold on information and is threatening our ability to know the truth.
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Tribune Media terminates sale to Sinclair Broadcast Group, seeks $1 billion in damages
The companies had the option to kill the sale, announced in May 2017, if it had not closed by Aug. 8. Tribune also filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court, claiming Sinclair failed to live up to its commitment to make its best effort at getting regulatory approval.
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Kidnapping
The Carol Burnett Show
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Three Identical Strangers Review (2018, directed by Tim Wardle)
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Bill Burr Doesn't Buy Oprah's Holier-Than-Thou Lance Armstrong Interview
Conan on TBS (Feb. 12, 2013)
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The endless reign of Rupert Murdoch
After decades of influence, the media mogul isn’t so much a person as an epoch
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Hungarian PM's main foe throws in the towel, sells businesses and retires | bne IntelliNews
Billionaire Fidesz cashier turned harsh Orban critic Lajos Simicska is selling his entire business empire, including his media holdings, in a deal that will have enormous political and economic implications.
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Study Estimates Hurricane Maria Killed Nearly 5,000, But Barely Makes News
On the day this week that Roseanne was canceled because of a racist tweet, researchers from Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health estimated Hurricane Maria caused at least 4,645 deaths in Puerto Rico. Now that is a story. That's almost 5,000 people who may have died, more than 70 times the official government toll of 64. It is more than twice the number who died when Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana and Mississippi in 2005.
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LA Times among US-based news sites blocking EU users due to GDPR
LA Times, Chicago Tribune and others redirect to pages saying sites are currently unavailable in most European countries
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Rupert Murdoch Believes In The Free Market... Until His Company Is Struggling: Then He Wants To Regulate Competitors
Oh, Rupert Murdoch. When we last checked in with him, he was literally begging Facebook to pay News Corp. money because (he claimed) News Corp was "enhancing the value and integrity of Facebook." We noted at the time that Murdoch -- a...
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The media should stop making school shooters famous
The perpetrator in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, is already a household name, although I will not name him here. He was arrested a couple of miles from the school after he killed, in a matter of minutes, 17 people and wounded 15 others.
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The Weirdest Movies of the 1970s
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Pretty Loud For Being So Silenced
Critics of the left aren’t oppressed and they don’t believe in “rational debate.” By Nathan J. Robinson.
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Disney CEO Bob Iger: Confident deal with Fox will close
Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger told CNBC on Tuesday that he remains "confident" the deal with Twenty-First Century Fox will move forward. Disney's $52 billion bid for Fox was announced in December. On Monday, sources told CNBC that Comcast is planning a $60 billion all-cash bid to acquire Fox's assets if the U.S. government approves AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner.
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Comcast launches rival £22bn Sky takeover bid
US broadcasting and cable TV firm enters bidding war with Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox
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A Beginner's Guide to Art House Cinema
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The Sinclair Horrorshow Is the Result of Decades of Failing to Take Media Consolidation Worries Seriously
For decades, consumer advocates and media watchdogs have warned about the dangers of media consolidation and the nation’s obsession with often-mindless merger mania. And for just as long, many consumers and tech analysts ignored those warnings, clearly bored by concerns that such consolidation harms quality local reporting, competition, and quality discourse. They’re paying attention now.
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Sinclair Employees Say Their Contracts Make It Too Expensive to Quit
After Sinclair Broadcast drew widespread criticism for having anchors read a statement taking aim at the integrity of other U.S. media outlets, many wondered why some of the company’s journalists didn’t just quit. The short answer is the cost may be too steep. According to copies of two employment contracts reviewed by Bloomberg, some Sinclair employees were subject to a liquidated damages clause for leaving before the term of their agreement was up: one that requires they pay as much as 40 percent of their annual compensation to the company.
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Steven Bochco, ‘Hill Street Blues’ creator, dead at 74
Steven Bochco, the prolific TV creator responsible for hits including “Hill Street Blues,” “L.A. Law” and “NYPD Blue,” has died.
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