The Pitt is good, and I'm glad it ends every episode with Noah Wyle looking directly into the camera to remind me I'm a good guy

woke is back

introducing the RTV students to an icon today

Dying that the four coaches are three Antetokounmpo brothers...and Mookie Betts.

Happy to see this article on virtual watch parties for films that were *in theaters* when COVID hit finally see the light of day in New Review of Film and TV Studies.

I use the National Film Registry a lot in my lower-division film courses. Fun to see them embrace video a bit more. Today's (shutdown-delayed) announcement of the 2025 honorees is great: www.loc.gov/item/video-1...

Every company wants to be the same fucking thing

Having to take out a second mortgage thanks to @homefield.bsky.social

Consistently surprised to see people who claim (and definitely do) support journalism and criticism get so mad about $5-10 paywalls.

Reading articles on the World Wide Web is better than ever

Some good news: NEWS OVER NOISE is back for a fourth season! The first episode is a roundtable discussion with great media literacy educators about (ugh) generative AI: newsliteracy.psu.edu/podcasts/bes...

Yinzer, Hoosier, King

ABC, desperate to beat CBS to the punch, is framing this news as great news for “free and fair elections” in Venezuela.

This right here is the New World Order, brother #iufb

Big Meritocracy at it again

One of my favorite things to do in class is ask my students to rank our screened materials at the end of the semester. The results are not often surprising, but they're still interesting/instructive. The results from my 200-level Film History & Theory course this semester.

First @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chat in a while, but it's a good one. Chopped it up with @michaelddwyer.bsky.social about his really great book, TINSEL AND RUST: HOW HOLLYWOOD MANUFACTURED THE RUST BELT newbooksnetwork.com/tinsel-and-r...

Adam Schefter is truly one of the worst to ever do it.

I hate to be that person, but it *does* annoy me that #StrangerThings is using the 765 area code when it was, in fact, not created until the late 90s in Indiana.

The CFB committee explaining why Alabama is in the playoff

It’s weird, though I guess unsurprisingly, how quickly we’re operating as if the Netflix/WB deal will be approved and without any changes to the deal. A press release isn’t a done deal!

I think they should do a World Cup draw every month. Don't even play the matches. Just put worse and worse celebs up there to rip balls

That ugly 0-0 result against Turkiye is going to HIT

FINE. I'll be the head football coach @pennstateuniv.bsky.social

Talking about stardom in rom-coms this week, and I've decided that this image should be illegal, or put in every city center

Nearly $500 million on administrator salaries, with another round of serious academic cuts coming soon.

Time to check in on how the ol’ Grey Lady covered seven million Americans protesting fascism yesterday… Ah! There it is, 38 headlines and several large ads down the page with a one minute read.

HYFR

TJ McConnell

getting into political arguments on the Bill Simmons subreddit, again

Look, it’s not open mic night in America

The Morning Show makes me believe in dead internet theory

it's that time of the semester

I think Nate Bergatze is pretty funny! This is not his night/setting.

can't believe they'd let her say that awful stuff (go birds) on television

make them play every week

Meanwhile, at Indiana University

just one more merger bro it'll make the consumer experience better bro for real this time bro shareholder value please bro i promise bro it'll work this time trust me bro it's for creators bro

*Trade reporter with an overpriced newsletter voice* Roundabout way to bring Chris Nolan back to WB

PSWBD

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Ezra Klein hasn’t changed for two decades. He just grew a beard.

It's so funny that every year Apple is like, WE MADE IT THINNER AND MORE POWERFUL THAN EVER, and then people just watch Rizzler videos on it before falling asleep

NFL back?

I quit

Friday class should be illegal

Podcasts are cooked

Some personal news

I've seen evils you cannot imagine

Shout out to the ESPN front page editors