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Global TV Market Spikes With Pandemic

By Research and Markets

The global television station market is expected to grow from $127.62 billion in 2019 to $143.17 billion, according to the new report “Global Television Station Markets 2020-2030: COVID-19 Implications and Growth.”
Due to the global pandemic of coronavirus infection, the market for television seeing significant demand in 2020 as consumers ramp up media consumption to stay informed, as well as to spend time during home quarantine. The market is expected to stabilize at a compound annual growth rate of 6.9% and reach $158.42 billion by 2023.

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Posted on June 29, 2020

Soul Survivors

By The Souls Survivor Organization

The Souls Survivor Organization, a group formed by former African-American participants of Survivor, will host “Tribes and Tribulations” on Friday, a live discussion of their experiences being Black on a competitive reality television series. The conversation will be streamed via YouTube and through the event page starting at 5:30 pm CT.
The event will focus on uncovering racism and producing a change for the future of reality television, as we know it. The group is also championing an online petition to support anti-racism efforts by Survivor.

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Posted on June 23, 2020

Hollywood’s Long History Of Collaborative Police Myth-Making

By Carol A. Stabile/The Conversation

In a recent interview, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison was asked why it’s so difficult to prosecute cases against police officers.
“Just think about all the cop shows you may have watched in your life,” he replied. “We’re just inundated with this cultural message that these people will do the right thing.”
While two of those shows, Cops and Live PD, have just been canceled, Americans have long been awash in a sea of police dramas.
In shows like Hill Street Blues, Gangbusters, The Untouchables, Dragnet, NYPD Blue and Law and Order, audiences view the world from the perspective of law enforcement, in which alternately heroic and beleaguered police fight a series of wars on crime. These shows – and countless others – mythologize the police, ensuring that their point of view has dominated popular culture.
This didn’t happen by accident.

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Posted on June 17, 2020

There’s A Unicorn Riot Goin’ On

By Errol Salamon/The Conversation

On-the-ground views of the protests sweeping the country are vital for understanding who is protesting and why.
Mainstream news media coverage and individuals’ social media posts only go so far – and can focus on violence and disruption.

There’s a grassroots media tradition in the U.S., too, which I’ve studied in my work on media and social movements. The livestreamed, unfiltered video coverage provided by the small staff of the nonprofit media collective Unicorn Riot is the modern heir to a history of on-the-street grassroots video documentary filming of protests and social movements that started in the late 1960s, including unstructured interviews with protesters.

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Posted on June 12, 2020

Racism And The Dawn Of Sesame Street

By Anne Harrington/Undark

In the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, a newly formed group called the Black Psychiatrists of America began to challenge their white colleagues to think about racism in a new way.
Its members had been discussing for some time the possibility of creating an organization that would address their lack of representation within the key bodies of American psychiatry.
But now, as one of these men, Dr. Chester Pierce, later put it, ”We anguished in our grief for a great moderate leader,” and it seemed that the time for moderation on their side was also over.
In Pierce’s words: “As we listened to radio reports and called to various sections of the country for the on-the spot reports in inner cities, our moderation weakened and our alarm hardened.”

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Posted on June 9, 2020

Jonathan Pie On Lockdown, Pt. 7: Back To School

Lessons For Life

“Politics is all about who rules the world for their own personal gain at the expense of everybody else, and how they hoodwink everybody else into letting them get away with it.”

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Posted on June 2, 2020