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“I don’t think it’s cruel to say this, because John himself would undoubtedly have turned it into a gleeful anecdote: When he had the stroke that killed him, he was at a local dinner theater. Hell of a review.”
Tuesday, November 26th, 2019E. Scott Weinberg On Youthful Fangoria Encounters
Saturday, November 23rd, 2019“Then one day I came home from school and discovered that every single issue of Fangoria that I owned had been shredded and dumped onto my bed. But first, here’s a little bit about my parents.”
E. Scott Weinberg On Youthful Fangoria Encounters
Rome Bookstore Closes
Saturday, November 23rd, 2019Rome's most beautiful bookshop closes its doors | @wantedinrome https://t.co/wFTGRh9c73 pic.twitter.com/03QtOif44H
— Publishers Weekly (@PublishersWkly) November 22, 2019
With a Grauniad-Alleged $300 Million Budget, Could The Yet-Unseen But Surely Weird Cats Pass A Billion Dollars at The Box Office?
Saturday, November 23rd, 2019WEEKEND READS ON MEDIAQUAKE
Saturday, November 23rd, 2019WEEKEND READS ON MEDIAQUAKE
To be precise, Alden is the largest single shareholder at 25 percent
It owns Denver Post and other newspaper properties through Digital First Media.
It is a very opaque owner stripping the financial assets of its properties.
Yet, not alone.
— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) November 19, 2019
Tribune Trolley Problem
Saturday, November 23rd, 2019business model now switching from ruthless incompetence to competent ruthlessness
— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) November 19, 2019
Tribune Prospects
Saturday, November 23rd, 2019"The Tribune Publishing Board of Directors is in discussions with Alden to put two members on the Board in connection with increasing the size of the Board from six to eight." https://t.co/Gwi5ZGW7l5
— Crain's Chicago (@CrainsChicago) November 19, 2019
McClatchy Prospects
Saturday, November 23rd, 2019The past decade has seen the conversion of news companies into financial instruments stripped of civic responsibility by waves of outside money men.
Here's the latest on McClatchy's prospects: https://t.co/7GN7ghzDyI
— Nieman Lab (@NiemanLab) November 19, 2019
On The Report
Saturday, November 23rd, 2019In light of @thereportmovie (see it!), I wrote an op-ed for @latimes about the truth of CIA torture, its ongoing impact on victims and survivors, and why the past is still very much present. https://t.co/zXm2xWUWaN
— Hina Shamsi (@HinaShamsi) November 21, 2019
Canadian Documentarian John Kastner Was 73
Saturday, November 23rd, 2019TorStar Leaving Print in Canada
Saturday, November 23rd, 2019NEW: Torstar memo on the closing of StarMetro daily print publications. Says 73 editorial, advertising and distribution employees will be laid off. Star plans to reopen digital bureaus in the affected cities. pic.twitter.com/10rbHW04lU
— Sean Craig (@sdbcraig) November 19, 2019
Marriage Story Vs. Kramer
Friday, November 22nd, 2019“Part of what makes ‘Kramer vs. Kramer’ endure all these years later,” writes @jourdayen, is that “it imagines a male character who learns to grow and recognize the part he played in the dissolution of his marriage” https://t.co/med7jeCcCw
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) November 14, 2019