WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is doing battle with one of America’s most recognizable cultural icons in a feud with potential reverberations far beyond Florida. DeSantis’s decision to go after the ...
WHEN Sarah Smith recorded the bile and hatred directed at her (“SNP MSP accused of ‘dismissive’ attitude to abuse claims by broadcaster Smith”, The Herald, February 18), she was telling the truth. The reaction to ...
Photo: Fandom Culture If you like any sort of entertainment medium then it’s guaranteed that there’s a fandom attached to it whether big or small. The definition of fandom is “the fans of a particular ...
Project Censored has been a tough sell since its inception in 1976. Identifying the most important stories of each year on the basis of the exposure that was denied to them by forces beyond the ...
During the Donald Trump era, AT&T suffered repeated gunshots from the President for his acquisition and ownership of CNN – the cable news station he and his supporters regularly referred to as “fake news”. Less ...
Jon Ronson and Adam Curtis became friends in the late 1990s, having bonded over their shared interests in power, society and the stories we tell about ourselves. Curtis, 66, is a Bafta-winning documentary film-maker whose ...
Not a day goes by, it seems, without another “cancel culture” story: the backlash against Dave Chapelle’s new Netflix standup special from transgender activists; the witch-hunt against a distinguished University of Michigan professor of composition ...
Last month, the historian and staff writer at The Atlantic Anne Applebaum brought a damning charge against the so-called cancel culture – a phenomenon she calls “The New Puritanism”. In it, Applebaum railed against the ...
According to the latest report from eMarketer, the average American spends up to 12 hours each day interacting with media. More time is spent watching TV and scrolling social media than having a good night’s ...
My Twitter feed in early May was suddenly flooded with screenshots of bubbling charts from the New York Times, which launched an interactive tool that allows readers to find out if they are “living in ...
