12 posts tagged ‘media’
Editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigns from The Washington Post when her cartoon criticizing Bezos is killed
Boing Boing,
Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes announced that she has quit her position at The Washington Post because her editor killed her cartoon criticizing tech and media billionaires, including Post owner Jeff Bezos. The Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes has resigned from her position at the Washington Post after her cartoon depicting Jeff Bezos and other billionaires genuflecting toward Trump was killed. — Read the rest The post Editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigns from The Washington Post when her cartoon criticizing Bezos is killed appeared first on Boing Boing.
British furry franchise The Wombles may soon return to screens
The Wombles are Britain's counterpart to the Smurfs, the Gnomes, the Trolls, and so on: in the 1960s and 1970s, every European country had its own cast of counterculture-influenced yet eminently franchisable creature cultures. The Wombles are hedgehog-like characters who live in burrows in parkland ("the Wombles of Wimbledon Common are we…") and clean up after thoughtless, littering humans. — Read the rest The post British furry franchise The Wombles may soon return to screens appeared first on Boing Boing.
The Cut’s 20 Most-Read Stories in 2023
The Cut,
The articles our readers were most deeply engaged with this year, from “It” Girls and Ozempic to rules for modern living.
A Podcast Memorial Service
The New Yorker,
The audio industry is in turmoil. But, at an event for “Death, Sex & Money,” voices were still keeping people together.
Sports Illustrated deletes articles by fake AI writers after exposé
Sports Illustrated used to publish essays by Kurt Vonnegut and Frank Deford. Now it publishes uncannily bland drivel by AI-generated personas, a fact revealed by Futurism in an exposé. Moreover, its response to the article implies that it has outsourced editorial to a content farm and it has no direct knowledge of who or what wrote it. — Read the rest
NYT: Yet more advertisers flee Twitter after Elon Musk's endorsement of antisemitic conspiracy theory
Add Disney, Warner Bros., Sony and others to the list of those not spending their money advertising on Twitter, following owner Elon Musk's praising an antisemitic tweet accusing jews of "hatred against whites" and his endorsement of the conspiracy theory that Jews are replacing whites with illegal immigrants. — Read the rest
Bob Dylan Is Campaigning to Reinstate Jann Wenner
Vulture,
“He just got booted out of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and we don’t think that’s right. We’re trying to get him back in.”
Gawker.com sold to Singapore media company that owns NME
Gawker.com—the domain and brand, but not the now-offline site and its decades of postings—was sold to a media group in Singapore, among whose possessions are the British music and culture magazine NME and various other music-related brands. Shut down after a lawsuit funded by billionaire Peter Thiel, then sold to Bustle, Gawker was briefly rebooted there and now will see new life once again. — Read the rest