The Evening Paper - Media, Culture and the Modern Condition

Expecting social media followers to translate in box office dollars is a new phenomenon and only time will tell if it will actually work.

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But is it really needed?

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Spotify and Bill Simmons have been negotiating for months but does buying the Ringer make sense?

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Today singles determine album sales. They don’t cause them. And knows knows this better than rapper French Montana... Instead of a collection of new music Montana used his self titled album to collect his best moments from the last four years including

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the allure of the some of the last remaining large live tv audiences may be too big to keep big advertisers away..

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After a tumultuous sound byte filled career Marshawn Lynch returned to the Seattle Seahawks for the last game of the season and the playoffs to a thunderous ovation and a thriving business

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In a rare, telling, wonderful look inside the head of one of hip hop’s most elusive and greatest creators legendary producer Rick Rubin, who is also co host of the broken record podcast sat down with Andre 3000.

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Don Imus, as radio observer Scott Fybush put it “was complicated in a way that talented, difficult people often are. And a full accounting, when one is finally written, he will – and should – remember him for both his triumphs and his failings.

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As newsrooms shrink especially at newspapers and staff members are asked to do more many papers like the Oregonian are asking them why deal with the acrimony and headaches that comes with online comments.

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Netflix released its most popular new titles list boding stars like Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle, Robert De Niro, Adam Sandler and Eddie Murphy. But after scanning the list the truth about any piece of Information generated by Netflix screamed at me.

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