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Betraying the Dream (Machine): NET, the FBI, and Regulating Public Television Content in the 1970s - Allison Perlman, 2026 This article investigates the history of content regulation in the US public television sector. It analyzes the context and consequences of an October 1971 deci...

With the #Colbert and CBS/ #FCC news making the rounds, it’s a great time to announce our forthcoming special issue of Television and New Media on histories of content regulation. You can get a sneak peek with this open access article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Before: In Munich, Ocasio-Cortez Ties Income Inequality to Rise of Authoritarians After: Ocasio-Cortez Offers a Working-Class Vision in Munich, With a Few Stumbles

Change in Headline

The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.

In Italy, it’s actually called Nerovirus.

They’ll be hearing from his father

Toad gathers a lantern in his attic. From "Christmas Eve" In *Frog and Toad All Year*

Toad found a lantern in the attic. “Frog will see this light. I will show him the way out of the woods,” said Toad.

When he was a kid, did a movie theater beat him up and take his lunch money

I was going to post Elisabeth Moss talking about how “Fred Armisen’s greatest impression is that of a normal person” but when I looked it up to get the wording right I learned AI has somehow turned it from being a scathing post divorce condemnation to being a really nice complement

"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.

AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show New research from Public Interest Research Group and tests conducted by NBC News found that a wide range of AI toys have loose guardrails.

New! We worked with the Public Interest Research Group to test a bunch of LLM-driven toys ahead of the Christmas. That sexual talking teddy bear wasn't a one-off; it turns out disturbing behavior is deeply built into these toys across the board.

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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

"Costumes optional" means that costumes are permitted.

Counsel has a chance to do something legendary is what I am saying.

Patron-Supported Journalism Can’t Be the Future of News Writing about the failure of patron-supported journalism is itself a kind of...

@anamariecox.bsky.social writes about the failure of patron-supported journalism.

"If everyone has to cobble together their own constellation of individual creators, $5 at a time? That’s not a media ecosystem. That’s a privatized patchwork of tip jars."

talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...

Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

"The suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel felt more like an omen." @tvbookstvbooks.bsky.social on censorship, the FCC, and the television industry over time. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/indecent-disposal-fcc-and-the-censoring-of-late-night/

I had fun revisiting angry viewer letters & FCC speeches to write this piece. The brief but consequential run-up to the 1952 TV Code has a lot to offer as we reflect on the Colbert and Kimmel debacles. (Also, a Morel Orel mention.) Thanks to @sayanniething.bsky.social & @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social!

A screenshot from Publisher's Lunch: Jennifer L. Armentrout and Hellmann's In a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s just-published THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE is available in a special, limited-edition "garlic-scented copy, infused with Hellmann’s Garlic Aioli to create a one-of-a-kind, Craven-proof book." They explain: "This exclusive edition is printed with garlic-infused ink, designed to ward off Armentrout’s bloodthirsty monsters, the Craven. While humans may dread garlic breath, Hellmann’s has cleverly transformed this social faux pas into an unexpected – and delicious – form of supernatural protection."

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

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🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

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A note: 60 Minutes has been reporting this story for more than a year, well before the recent news that Paramount Skydance, parent company of CBS, struck a deal to broadcast the cage fighting league across its properties.

Dallas Morning News shareholders vote to deny the hedge fund Alden Global Capital Is a newspaper a financial asset or a community trust? This particular standoff ended with an increasingly uncommon answer.

Is a newspaper a financial asset or a community trust? This particular standoff ended with an increasingly uncommon answer.

www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/dall...

My dept at Fordham is hiring a TT Assistant Prof of Media Policy and Platform Governance.

"We are especially interested in someone whose research and teaching speaks to policy or legal implications of internet-based platforms and AI systems..."

Please share widely: apply.interfolio.com/174378

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

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