Hacker News with Generative AI: Media

Why Kids' Shows Like 'Cocomelon' Hamper Critical Brain Development (forbes.com)
When adults hear the term “kid-friendly” in regards to entertainment, a familiar image often springs to mind: vibrant colors, catchy tunes and straightforward narratives.
Child Development, Education, Media, Entertainment, Psychology
7 points by KittenInABox 4 hours ago | 0 comments
French modernists were alarmed, inspired by newspaper's voracious dynamism (aeon.co)
In the 1860s, Charles Baudelaire bemoaned what we might now call doomscrolling:
Art, History, Media, Modernism
93 points by crescit_eundo 10 hours ago | 27 comments
Apple suspends AI-generated news alert service after BBC complaint (theguardian.com)
Apple is suspending an artificial intelligence feature that made inaccurate summaries of news headlines.
Artificial Intelligence, News, Technology, Media
4 points by frereubu 16 hours ago | 2 comments
Apple pulls AI-generated notifications for news after generating fake headlines (cnn.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Technology, News, Apple, Media
5 points by LgLasagnaModel 1 day ago | 2 comments
The Washington Post kills off its "Democracy Dies In Darkness" slogan (avclub.com)
Journalism, Slogans, Media
40 points by choult 1 day ago | 30 comments
Donald Trump Threatens Comcast in Rant over Seth Meyers' Late Night Show (deadline.com)
In an early morning rant, Donald Trump went off on Seth Meyers‘ late-night NBC show, declaring that “Comcast should pay a BIG price” for shows that he calls “political hits.”
Politics, Media, Television, Late Night
17 points by taimurkazmi 3 days ago | 10 comments
Censorship is what you see in China, not what they say was on Facebook (elpais.com)
In the plutocracy that is emerging, and whose consequences we can only guess at, the big business magnates do not want to put a stop to hoaxes and hatred, because that would be censorship, but they do want to combat serious journalism, relegated to social networks with this slogan from Elon Musk to X users: “You are the media now.”
Censorship, Social Media, Journalism, Media
9 points by belter 4 days ago | 1 comments
Lorne Michaels Is the Real Star of "Saturday Night Live" (newyorker.com)
He’s ruled with absolute power for five decades, forever adding to his list of oracular pronouncements—about producing TV, making comedy, and living the good life.
Television, Comedy, Entertainment, Media
45 points by pseudolus 4 days ago | 50 comments
You don't need to read the news (2023) (finmoorhouse.com)
I think that some people feel obliged to read the news, and that they don’t need to. Reading the news (for perhaps hours per week) might feel virtuous or necessary, but mostly I think it is neither.
News Consumption, Media, Opinion
5 points by ironyman 8 days ago | 0 comments
Washington Post Cartoonist Quits After Jeff Bezos Cartoon Is Killed (nytimes.com)
Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for The Washington Post, said on Friday evening that she was resigning after the newspaper’s opinions section rejected a cartoon depicting The Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos, genuflecting toward a statue of President-elect Donald J. Trump.
Politics, Media, Censorship, Journalism
19 points by JumpCrisscross 10 days ago | 1 comments
Disney to Merge Hulu and Live TV with Fubo, Taking on YouTube TV (hollywoodreporter.com)
The Walt Disney Co. will merge its streaming multichannel video service Hulu with Live TV with its competitor Fubo in a surprise deal that will shake up the streaming TV business, the companies said Monday.
Streaming, Media, Competition
14 points by jbredeche 11 days ago | 3 comments
Washington Post cartoonist resigns after cartoon satirising Jeff Bezos rejected (abc.net.au)
A cartoonist at the Washington Post has resigned after the newspaper refused to publish a sketch featuring the publication's billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, satirised bowing before Donald Trump.
Politics, Media, Satire, Censorship
31 points by adrian_mrd 13 days ago | 14 comments
US newspapers are deleting old crime stories, offering subjects a 'clean slate' (theguardian.com)
A wave of local publications are considering requests to wipe or edit old articles to give their subjects a fresh start
Journalism, Crime, Privacy, News, Media
209 points by bookofjoe 13 days ago | 366 comments
TV Group Couldn't Force U.S. ISPs to Block Pirates, UK ISPs May Offer Help (torrentfreak.com)
More than two-and-a-half years ago, a group of Israel-based TV companies entered a new phase of their multi-year war against the country’s most popular and resilient pirate sites.
Internet, Piracy, Law, Technology, Media
7 points by gslin 15 days ago | 0 comments
Feelie (wikipedia.org)
A feelie is a physical item included to supplement a video game.
Video Games, Gaming Accessories, Media, Entertainment
14 points by lelandfe 15 days ago | 3 comments
Palestinian Authority Suspends Al Jazeera TV in West Bank, Citing Incitement (bbc.com)
The Palestinian Authority says it has suspended broadcasting by the prominent Arab channel Al Jazeera in parts of the occupied West Bank, citing incitement and bias.
Palestine, Media, Politics, Conflict, Censorship
13 points by impish9208 15 days ago | 16 comments
Palestinian Authority Suspends Al Jazeera Operations in the West Bank (aljazeera.com)
Al Jazeera has deplored the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) decision to close its office in the occupied West Bank, calling it a move that is “in line with the [Israeli] occupation’s actions against its staff”.
Palestine, Media, Politics, International Relations
8 points by nsoonhui 16 days ago | 0 comments
30 years ago Tomorrow's World predicted 2025 – how did it do? (bbc.com)
In 1995, the BBC's Tomorrow's World programme decided to predict what the world would look like 30 years later, in 2025.
Technology, Predictions, Future, Media, BBC
6 points by neversaydie 16 days ago | 1 comments
Voctoweb – the front end and back end software behind media.ccc.de (github.com/voc)
Voctoweb is a rails application that provides a “YouTube like” user interface to video, audio and pdf files; a meta data editor; and APIs. For more infomation about relations to other components see c3voc Wiki.
Web Development, Media, Rails
5 points by doener 20 days ago | 0 comments
Piracy in the UK: the failed war on illegal content (huckmag.com)
Piracy, UK, Law, Content, Media
50 points by CarbonBasedUnit 20 days ago | 32 comments
Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that (nplusonemag.com)
Until recently no Hollywood studio had ever released two movies with the same name at the same time. At most studios, such a strategy would be unthinkable. Audiences might accidentally buy tickets to the wrong film, and the PR fallout would be disastrous: snipes from trade-magazine writers; angry calls from investors questioning the studios’ business acumen; angrier calls from agents demanding to know why their clients’ images were being intentionally sabotaged.
Movies, Entertainment, Media, Business, Hollywood
306 points by exitb 21 days ago | 350 comments
CCC 2024 Videos Index (media.ccc.de)
Security, Conferences, Media
70 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 21 days ago | 11 comments
NYT Quiz: Which Parts of These Images Are A.I.-Generated? (nytimes.com)
Artificial intelligence tools can fabricate entirely new images and videos. But they can now also make much smaller tweaks by inserting A.I. elements into genuine photographs, further blurring the line between what’s real and what’s fake.
Artificial Intelligence, Image Generation, Media, Technology, News
6 points by smcin 22 days ago | 1 comments
The effects of 'brain rot': How junk content is damaging our minds (elpais.com)
Mental Health, Media, Information Consumption
10 points by marban 22 days ago | 0 comments
Read the NYPD's Mangione report the media won't publish (kenklippenstein.com)
If you’re a social media user who’s expressed anything other than condemnation for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, counterterrorism authorities might consider you an “extremist.”
New York, Law Enforcement, Media, Crime, Counterterrorism
21 points by miles 22 days ago | 4 comments
Mapping Trump's connections to tech's right-wing brotherhood (nbcnews.com)
President-elect Donald Trump has surrounded himself with a tight-knit group of wealthy tech barons whose ideas will help define his second term in the White House.
Politics, Technology, Business, Media
11 points by marban 22 days ago | 8 comments
The Rise of Post-Literate History (compactmag.com)
The English historian J.A. Froude was famously gloomy about the ultimate prospects for his chosen branch of literature. “To be entirely just in our estimate of other ages is not difficult,” he said. “It is impossible.” Froude’s words came to mind the other day when I encountered Tucker Carlson’s interview with the podcaster Darryl Cooper, whose opinions about World War II may politely be described as “controversial.” 
History, Writing, Media, Politics
35 points by bertman 23 days ago | 71 comments
For > 50 years BBC Somali service inadvertently broadcasted anti-colonial msg (theguardian.com)
The British Broadcasting Corporation’s Somali service theme tune is one of the most popular and recognisable sounds for people in Somalia and the diaspora. With a whistling rhythm and melody, it is authoritative and catchy. The words that follow the music haven’t changed for more than 60 years: “Halkaniwaa BBC – this is the BBC.”
Radio, History, Somalia, Colonialism, Media
7 points by erehweb 24 days ago | 0 comments
Dmitry Medvedev says editors of the Times are 'legitimate military targets' (theguardian.com)
The Russian security council deputy head, Dmitry Medvedev, has described the editors of the Times newspaper in Britain as “legitimate military targets” in response to the newspaper’s coverage of the assassination of a Russian general.
Russia, War, Journalism, Media, Politics
23 points by aguaviva 30 days ago | 19 comments
In 1999, the end was coming for newspapers. But few were looking for the signs (latimes.com)
Open a copy of the Los Angeles Times from Dec. 16, 1999, and it’s hard to imagine the indignities history had in store for this and so many other newspapers.
Newspapers, History, Media, Journalism
6 points by pseudolus 32 days ago | 1 comments