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Rob Corddry’s new show, Childrens’ Hospital (ep 1). All ten episodes are online to watch, here. About five minutes each.
Free Article
It’s not profitable because it’s too often free, he argues. He doesn’t mention the amount of advertising that has come with that freedom (many of those kinds of sites have more advertising for the users that don’t pay–and some of what he claims to have used, like Lexis Nexis, is often not free to just anyone, you have to be a journalist, professor, student, etc.), nor does he talk about the ethics or politics of having less accessible news. Is there, like copyrighted software material (including movies, music, etc), something inherently socialist about news–as in, if it cost more to protect and restrict the product from free sharing than it does to actually make that same product, then it has a “socialist kernel” about it. In the future, could the cost of internet access be more about collecting a shared revenue for news corps and software and entertainment corps (a kind of “fair use fee”).
Still, there seems to be a good point in his article.
Lists and More Lists
Federal Writers Project
This was set up during the New Deal era of the 1930s. It certainly had some great writers pass through its program. the idea suggested by the author, for something similar today to go through colleges, might be a good idea for the fact that colleges are struggling and cutting as well.
Movies, Books, Shows, Video Games, etc
That were liked by the Pitchfork Staff this year.
Amy Poehler’s new online show for (empowering) young girls. More about it here. She will have her own sitcom next year, on NBC.
I am posting a few of what Pitchfork calls their favorite live music performances of the year on Pitchfork.tv.
The band shown above is M83.