Weekly Journal #12
News
Tales From the Teenage Cancel Culture (New York Times)
The Humiliation of Katie Hill Offers a Warning (The Atlantic)
Film
Studio Chief Summit: All 7 Top Film Executives, One Room, Nothing Off-Limits (and No Easy Answers) (The Hollywood Reporter)
See First Photos of 30 New Hallmark Christmas Movies (Entertainment Weekly) The Stunning Achievement of Kasi Lemmons’s ‘Harriet’ (The New Yorker) Why Films About the Past Should Embrace Horror (The Washington Post)
Television
‘It’s an Explosion’: Inside the Rising Costs of Making a Scripted TV Series (Variety)
‘Stumptown’ and TV’s Legacy of Hard-Boiled Detectives (Vulture)
The Future of Kids’ Entertainment Will Determine the Future of Entertainment (Fast Company)
Digital
Why It’s Important That Gamers Are Calling to #BoycottBlizzard (The New York Times)
Chinese Tech Giants are Developing Apps to Alert Women to Spycams (Quartz)
Think You’re Anonymous Online? A Third of Popular Websites are ‘Fingerprinting’ You. (The Washington Post)
Follow Focus: The Kid Mero
A Recap of the Week the Kid Mero Mercilessly Dragged Tucker Carlson Fans (Vulture)
Desus & Mero Isn’t the Future of Late Night. Yet. (Slate)
Desus and Mero Give a Crash Course in Wokeness (The Atlantic)