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Ridley Scott’s Explanation For Whitewashing His Exodus Movie Is Infuriating — Medium

https://medium.com/@DavidDWrites/ridley-scotts-explanation-for-whitewashing-his-exodus-movie-is-infuriating-8d36bd555ada "I can't mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such," Scott says. "I'm just not going to get it financed. So the question doesn't even come up."

banksy (@thereaIbanksy) | Twitter

banksy (@thereaIbanksy) | Twitter

banksy (@thereaIbanksy) | Twitter

banksy (@thereaIbanksy) | Twitter

Russia: Band of brothers | The Economist

Russia: Band of brothers | The Economist : PUTIN, thief! Putin, thief!” chanted the protesters who marched through Moscow as Vladimir Putin sought his third term as president. Since then the rallies have ended. Russia’s swift annexation of Crimea and its subsequent proxy-war in the south-east of Ukraine have turned Mr Putin into a national hero in the eyes of many Russians, including some former protesters. But they have also led to Western sanctions against Mr Putin’s cronies, and focused attention once more on the issue of theft and corruption, which is the subject of a new book

How an eBay bookseller defeated a publishing giant at the Supreme Court - Prismatic

How an eBay bookseller defeated a publishing giant at the Supreme Court - Prismatic

26 charts and maps to be thankful for - Vox

26 charts and maps to be thankful for - Vox

Visual History of Decreasing World Hunger and Improving Food Provision

Visual History of Decreasing World Hunger and Improving Food Provision

ECB's Nouy says banks must show they can make profits | Reuters

ECB's Nouy says banks must show they can make profits | Reuters

ECB's Nouy says banks must show they can make profits | Reuters

ECB's Nouy says banks must show they can make profits | Reuters

NPD DisplaySearch: More 4K UHD TV Sets Shipped in Q2’14 than in All of 2013 | DisplaySearch

NPD DisplaySearch: More 4K UHD TV Sets Shipped in Q2’14 than in All of 2013 | DisplaySearch

NPD DisplaySearch: More 4K UHD TV Sets Shipped in Q2’14 than in All of 2013 | DisplaySearch

NPD DisplaySearch: More 4K UHD TV Sets Shipped in Q2’14 than in All of 2013 | DisplaySearch

Existing Apple suppliers say GT Advanced promised too much, didn't diversify enough

Existing Apple suppliers say GT Advanced promised too much, didn't diversify enough : For starters, GT Advanced told Apple it would be able to build extraordinarily large sapphire boules sized at 578 pounds — double the size of competing products. But GT Advanced struggled to manufacture boules of sapphire at that size, experiencing poor yield rates and producing tons of material that was unusable.

Netflix Summons TV, Movie, Tech Executives to Internet TV Summit | Re/code

Netflix Summons TV, Movie, Tech Executives to Internet TV Summit | Re/code : Reed Hastings wants to talk about the future of TV. So he’s�asking�the people who run�movie studios, TV networks and entertainment conglomerates to join him for a private chat. The Netflix CEO has invited many�of the top executives in the TV and film world, along with some representatives from hardware and Internet companies, to a gathering at a Utah resort next month.�Invitations to the event, distributed to the likes of CBS CEO Les Moonves and HBO CEO Richard Plepler, say that Hastings and Netflix content boss Ted Sarandos want to discuss the future of TV.

Reuters Institute for the study of Journalism

Reuters Institute for the study of Journalism : If one believes the numbers attached to Facebook, then the world's most powerful news executive is Greg Marra, the product manager for the Facebook News Feed. He is 26. In a recent piece in the New York Times, Marra was quoted as saying: “We try to explicitly view ourselves as not editors,” he said. “We don’t want to have editorial judgment over the content that’s in your feed. You’ve made your friends, you’ve connected to the pages that you want to connect to and you’re the best decider for the things that you care about.” However, even by making the decision that people see news based on their social circles, Marra and his colleagues have made a profound editorial decision which has a broad societal impact. ‘We don’t want to have editorial judgment’. This is a refrain one hears over and over again within Silicon Valley companies: We are ‘just a platform’, the ‘technology is neutral’; ‘we don’t make editorial decisions’. I truly ...

Reuters Institute for the study of Journalism

Reuters Institute for the study of Journalism : ‘Look!’ he said, ‘We listened to what users wanted � to find information more easily � and we listened to what advertisers wanted � to reach people who might want to buy their products or services, and we connected them. Media companies didn’t do this, and as a result you lost’.

Reuters Institute for the study of Journalism

Reuters Institute for the study of Journalism : Today however we have reached a point of transition where news spaces are no longer owned by newsmakers. The press is no longer in charge of the free press and has lost control of the main conduits through which stories reach audiences. The public sphere is now operated by a small number of private companies, based in Silicon Valley.

Reuters Institute for the study of Journalism

Reuters Institute for the study of Journalism : Emily Bell's Speech - Reuters Memorial Lecture 2014, Silicon Valley and Journalism: Make up or break up?� (check against delivery) Good evening. I want to thank David Levy and the Reuters Institute for inviting me to speak here today. It is a great honor to be talking to such a distinguished audience in an environment which has nurtured free thinking and speech which has had such impact on the world. There are not many of us working in the realm of research aimed at helping news organisations and journalists and from the vantage point of the Tow Center at Columbia Journalism School we look to the Reuters Institute as a model in this field.

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Artsy - Discover Fine Art

https://m.artsy.net/post/editorial-murakami-misinterprets-history-in-a-psychedelic-sprawl?utm_source=Current+Users&utm_campaign=42df4a5217-Weekly+email+%23175_Editorial9&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c67eb1f0a4-42df4a5217-414186161 Sent from mobile gm

Understanding “New Power”

Understanding “New Power” : New power gains its force from people’s growing capacity—and desire—to go far beyond passive consumption of ideas and goods.

The Digiday Vitriol-o-Meter: What outrages you? - Digiday

The Digiday Vitriol-o-Meter: What outrages you? - Digiday : 4. Bill Cosby This fall was supposed to be the 77 year-old comic’s victory lap: He had a Netflix special slated to run, a possible deal with NBC for a new sitcom and he was the subject of a glowing biography. But as decades-old rape allegations have resurfaced with renewed vigor, the special and the show have been ripped away from him. America’s dad, in the popular imagination, is done.

The Next Chapter | All Aereo

The Next Chapter | All Aereo The Next Chapter A little over three years ago, the team at Aereo set out to build a better television experience for the consumer.  We began this journey because we were frustrated with a system that we believed was broken and no longer served the consumer. When it came to watching live television, the options were few, the products available were cumbersome and didn’t fit our increasingly mobile lifestyle, and costs were unreasonably high and rising. With that in mind, we put our collective engineering power to work to create an online technology that was simple, useful, and compelling, and provided consumers with a true alternative to how they watch local live TV. That’s how Aereo came to life. Our engineering team created the first cloud-based, individual antenna and DVR that enabled you to record and watch live television on the device of your choice, all via the Internet. In less than two years, we went from drawings on a napkin to launching Aere...

Xiaomi Wants To Overtake Apple And Samsung - Business Insider

Xiaomi Wants To Overtake Apple And Samsung - Business Insider : “I believe that no one thought the Xiaomi from three years ago, which just made its first phone, would later rank as the third largest player,” said Jun. "Within five or 10 years, we have the opportunity to become the number one smartphone company in the world."

Fwd: Stanford Libraries unearths the earliest US website

Stanford Libraries unearths the earliest US website   Popular in your network Stanford Libraries unearths the earliest US website Phys.org is tweeting about this. ESA Operations @esaoperations   This is where @Astro_Alex @Msuraev & @astro_reid will land: Kazakhstan pic.twitter.com/q4urjSOxk6 NASA retweeted this. Alexander Gerst @Astro_Alex   Thanks to all of you for flying to space with me, it's been a blast. I am glad we ...