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Here’s What the WGA Has to Say About Streaming Monopolies
The Writers’ Guild of America West has released a 15-page report on the big three streaming services, outlining exactly how far each one has gone to preserve and maintain their monopoly in the space. The three companies at the heart of the report are Disney, Amazon, and Netflix. All three of these streaming services are…
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The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won.
The last major holdouts in the massive protest against Reddit’s controversial API pricing have relented, abandoning the so-called “John Oliver rules” which only allowed posts featuring the beloved TV host in certain dissident subreddits. It marks the end of months of fighting, which included site-wide blackouts. Now it seems the battle has come to a…
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2023’s New Emoji Finalists, Ranked
Ah the emoji, the small, cartoonish pictographs that are seemingly able to summarise the entirety of the human condition in just a few character widths. Whether you use them for the meme of it all or to literally express how you’re feeling, emojis have nestled themselves firmly in the lexicon of digital communication, just be…
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Spielberg and Scorsese May Have Just Saved TCM From Zaslav’s Destructive Warpath
Cinephile’s cherished Turner Classic Movies was slated to be Warner Bros. Discovery’s latest amputation of beloved content. Out of the blue, famed directors Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Paul Thomas Anderson stepped up to bat for the classic cinema channel. Now it seems the three have managed to hold Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav back,…