A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. | | | | | MTV (Viacom) | | | | |  | “A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.”
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| | rantnrave:// MTV is my alma mater. Great affection and memories. I want to see it succeed. Needs to go way left of center. It shouldn't be self-referential to its past. Needs to take back a leading seat as a reflection and leader of youth culture. A tough task because they started as trend magnifiers to a nation and now youth tell those things to one another. It's the one TV brand that could have been a platform. All this isn't easy. Requires risk, patience and long ball thinking. Look what HBO CEO RICHARD PLEPLER says about VICE NEWS. And all TV networks need to consider all screens. The tectonic plates are shifting... Nothing better than getting a retro play by play of the making of a movie. That's why we love oral histories of them. Here is an ever growing list of the better ones. REDEF MediaSET: "Don't You Just Love Oral Histories Of Movies?"... This is either the greatest or dumbest idea ever... GEORGE LUCAS is class... I used to be a club/concert promoter in high school and college. One of the first shows I ever did was DEAD OR ALIVE. Sadly, lead singer PETE BURNS died yesterday at 57. R.I.P... Curious to see those that demand you take responsibility shun it themselves. You want to lead, show it... We’re past the point of debating whether Esports is “here” or not. It’s time to take a look why and how virtual sports games will drive the next phase of growth of this global phenomenon. REDEF SportsORIGINAL: "Why Virtual Games Will Drive the Next Wave of Growth for Esports"... Happy Birthday to MELISSA BRENNER, SAM BELL, STEVE GOLD, LIZ HELLER and TARIQ KRIM. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Ars Technica |
| What obligations does a journalist have when he knows he's being used by a "state actor"? | | |
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 | CSMPasscode |
| The Christian Science Monitor's Passcode section has a special multimedia report on the new generation of #HackerKids: Meet the 15 kids under 15 years old who are changing the face of cybersecurity. | | |
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 | Charlie Rose |
| Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein of Jordan, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, on the ongoing crisis in Aleppo. | | |
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 | recode |
| Creator Sam Esmail explains the difference on the latest Recode Decode. | | |
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 | Slate |
| For the past year, political journalists across the ideological spectrum have worked to understand Donald Trump and his voters. What drove their frustration and anger? Why did they gravitate toward Trump versus other political figures? | | |
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 | Aeon Magazine |
| From algorithms to aliens, could humans ever understand minds that are radically unlike our own? | | |
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 | Moyers & Company |
| Data scientist and blogger Cathy O'Neil discusses her new book, "Weapons of Math Destruction," examining the way algorithms and data science are making our society less fair and more unequal. | | |
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 | Eater |
| An exclusive conversation with the globe-trotting culinary maverick. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| On the 45th anniversary of the Attica debacle, U.S. inmates staged a coordinated protest over work and living conditions, but they were ignored or silenced. | | |
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 | George Hahn |
| The best brands are built on a foundation of real mastery of craft. And they’re very rare. | | |
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 | The Huffington Post |
| Looking for a new job? There’s a new position in the tech world, in Silicon Valley, Silicon Beach or anywhere else in the world. It’s called the “flexion position.” What’s required to qualify? You have to be addicted to work. You must love a sedentary job that keeps you glued to your computer. | | |
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 | Der Spiegel |
| The battle for Mosul, a key city for Islamic State, has begun. On one side, a fragile alliance with conflicting political goals, and on the other, a ruthless enemy who might go to extreme lengths to defend the Iraqi metropolis -- incluing chemical weapons. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| Domestic violence can’t be ended; it can be addressed. That won’t, though, be about get-tough policies, or one-game or six-game or life-long suspensions, or shadow judiciaries, or doing what’s best for public relations, or taking stances that will only drive victims underground. It will require doing something truly radical: treating players and their wives like human beings. | | |
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 | 94Five |
| One thing that’s starting to take a new form, specifically in the music industry, is hyper masculinity within Hip-Hop. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Baseball scouts used to scrutinize Maury Lerner’s every move. Then F.B.I. agents were the ones watching. | | |
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 | Shorenstein Center |
| Jeffrey Rosen, President & CEO of the National Constitution Center, Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School, and a Contributing Editor of The Atlantic, delivered the ninth annual Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on October 13, 2016. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| These shows were literally ahead of their time. | | |
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 | The New Atlantis |
| Robert Zubrin offers a friendly critique of Elon Musk's plans for SpaceX to settle the Red Planet. | | |
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 | Tedium |
| Home ownership is down. Rentals are up. So are monthly rents—and not just in big cities. How can we get the rental crisis in check before it’s too late? | | |
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 | Backchannel |
| The GOP Arcade is producing tiny, raw, irreverent games based on the news. | | |
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 | Business of Fashion |
| Matthew Moneypenny talks to BoF about how he plans to make fashion industry talent as bankable as Hollywood actors. | | |
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 | Deadline |
| Time Warner always seems to be at the center of the media industry’s most important deals. | | |
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