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- Traffic : genius, rivalry, and delusion in the billion-dollar race to go viral / by Smith, Ben(Journalist),author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The origin story of the Age of Disinformation: the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, Jonah Peretti of HuffPost and Buzzfeed and Nick Denton of Gawker Media, whose delirious pursuit of attention at scale in the first two decades of the 21st century helped release the dark forces that would overtake the internet and American society. If attention is the new oil, Ben Smith's Traffic is the story of the time between the first gusher and the impact of climate change. The curtain opens in Soho in the early 2000's, in that brief moment after the first dotcom crash and before Google, Apple, and Facebook exploded, when it seemed that New York City rather than Silicon Valley might become tech's center of gravity. There, within a few square blocks, Nick Denton's merry band of nihilists at his growing Gawker empire and Jonah Peretti's sunnier crew at HuffPost and Buzzfeed were building the foundations of click-bait media. It was tech's age of innocence: the old establishment might have been discredited by the Iraq War, but digital news would facilitate the spread of truth. Progressive activists were first to the scene, and for a while it seemed they were the scene. After all, didn't they get Barack Obama elected? Ben Smith, who would go on to earn a controversial reputation as Buzzfeed's editor-in-chief, was either there or talked to everyone who was, and in his trademark fashion, he chronicles it all with marvelous lucidity scored with dark wit, sparing no one--and certainly not himself. Denton and Gawker were seen at the time as the black hats, but in Smith's hands the story is much more nuanced: yes, Denton's ideology of radical transparency was problematic, but at least he had an ideology. Jonah Peretti survived long after Denton's Gawker perished because his focus on clicks was relentlessly content-agnostic. But as with the proverbial sorcerer's apprentice, unintended consequences began to gain momentum. At the heart of Traffic is one of the great ironies of our time: the internet, which was going to help the left remake the world in its image, has become the motive force of right populism. As Smith and his colleagues and rivals thought they were inventing digital media, other figures, flickering around the margins of their story, had different designs. People like Steve Bannon and Andrew Breitbart and Gavin McInnes and Chris Poole, the creator of 4chan, all seemed like minor characters in the narrative in which Nick and Jonah and crew were the stars. By 2020, any reasonable observer might wonder if the opposite wasn't the case. To understand how we got here, Traffic is essential and enthralling reading"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Denton, Nicholas.; Peretti, Jonah.; Digital media; Internet industry; News Web sites;
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- J.L. family ranch [videorecording] / by Caan, James,actor.; Carner, Charles Robert,film director,screenwriter.; Griffith, Melanie,1957-actor.; Voight, Jon,1938-actor.; Paul, Steven,screenwriter,film producer.; Peyton, Harley,screenwriter.; Young, Jon,screenwriter.; Polo, Teri,1969-actor.; Hallmark Movies & Mysteries,broadcaster.; Hallmark Channel (Television network),publisher.; Cinedigm (Firm),film distributor.;
Music, Eric Allaman ; director of photography, Kris Kimlin ; production designer, Tony Pizza ; editor, David Eichorn, Robert Feretti.Jon Voight, James Caan, Melanie Griffith, Teri Polo.J.L. is an old-fashioned, conservative cowboy who owns a large ranch in a small Texas town and is the patriarch of a sizeable family that all take shelter under his roof. He has to battle the outside forces of the modern world that is rapidly creeping into his expanding town in order to maintain possession of his treasured ranch and to keep his family together.PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Western films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Made-for-TV movies.; Families; Ranches;
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- Colette [videorecording] / by Glaser, Richard,screenwriter.; Gough, Denise,actor.; Karlsen, Elizabeth,film producer.; Knightley, Keira,1985-actor.; Koffler, Pamela R.,film producer.; Lenkiewicz, Rebecca,screenwriter.; Litvak, Michel,film producer.; Shaw, Fiona,1958-actor.; Vachon, Christine,film producer.; Walters, Gary Michael,film producer.; West, Dominic,1969-actor.; Westmoreland, Wash,film director,screenwriter.; Woolley, Stephen,film producer.; 30West (Firm),production company.; Bleecker Street (Firm),production company.; Bold Films,production company.; British Film Institute,production company.; Elevation Pictures,film distributor.; Killer Films,production company.; Number 9 Films,production company.;
Original music by Thomas Adès ; editor, Lucia Zucchetti ; director of photography, Giles Nuttgens.Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Denise Gough, Fiona Shaw, Eleanor Tomlinson, Robert Pugh, Aiysha Hart.After marrying 'Willy,' a successful Parisian writer, Colette is transplanted to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation, inspiring additional Claudine novels. Colette's fight over creative ownership and gender roles drives her to overcome societal constraints, revolutionizing literature, fashion and sexual expression.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for some sexuality/nudity.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Fiction films.; Feature films.; Biographical films.; Historical films.; Colette, 1873-1954; Authors, French; Man-woman relationships; Women authors, French;
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- The dinner [videorecording] / by Chubb, Caldecot,film producer.; Coogan, Steve,actor.; Gere, Richard,1949-actor.; Hall, Rebecca,1982-actor.; Inglee, Lawrence,film producer.; Lebedev, Julia,film producer.; Linney, Laura,actor.; Moverman, Oren,film director,screenwriter.; Vaisman, Eddie,film producer.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Koch, Herman,1953-Diner.; Lions Gate Films,production company,publisher.; Orchard (Firm),presenter.; Code Red (Firm),presenter.; Chubbco,production company.; Blackbird Productions,production company.;
Editor, Alex Hall ; director of photography, Bobby Bukowski.Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan, Rebecca Hall, Chloe Sevigny, Charlie Plummer.It is a dark psychological thriller about a fierce showdown between two couples during the course of an ornately prepared meal at a fancy restaurant. When Stan Lohman, a popular congressman running for governor, invites his troubled younger brother Paul and his wife Claire to join him and his wife Katelyn for dinner at one of the town's most fashionable restaurants, the stage is set for a tense night.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for disturbing violent content, and language throughout.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Thrillers (Motion pictures); Feature films.; Koch, Herman, 1953-; Families; Family secrets; Legislators;
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