media
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Use The Bechdel Test To Break Out Of Your Netflix Rut
2The almighty recommendation algorithm works in mysterious ways, and not always for the best. If your Netflix homepage has become an echo chamber, a little change in perspective could help you find your new favourite movie.
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How To Roast Someone Like A Pro
You probably know that Michelle Wolf delivered the standard “roast” at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner over the weekend and delivered some choice lines skewering the Trump administration and the media. From the reaction, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Wolf spent the entire evening mocking Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ looks.
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I’m USA Today Network President Maribel Wadsworth, And This Is How I Work
Twenty-two years ago, Maribel Perez Wadsworth started at the Gannett-owned Rockford Register Star, covering Illinois agriculture. Now, as president of Gannett’s USA Today Network and Associate Publisher of USA Today, she oversees a long roster of local and national papers. Along the way, she’s worked as Gannett’s chief strategy officer, and as vice president of…
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The Bechdel Test, And Other Media Representation Tests, Explained
In the latest episode of Rick & Morty alternative The Simpsons, guest star Alison Bechdel describes her famous Bechdel test for films: Do two female characters have at least one conversation that’s not about a man? Marge immediately brings up Homer, provoking Bechdel’s FAIL animation, shown here in handy exploitable form: