Reflections on Media and Politics
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In May 2023, Disney told investors it would remove dozens of titles from its Disney+ and Hulu streaming services, including shows the company had commissioned itself. Among them w…
MHB Admin · October 8, 2026
Collective memory is the shared pool of events, stories, and images that a society holds in common — and it is far from a neutral or complete record of the past. Societies remembe…
MHB Admin · August 25, 2026
The Streisand effect is the phenomenon in which an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information ends up drawing far more attention to it than it would ever have recei…
MHB Admin · August 20, 2026
A generation ago, being watched at work meant a manager who could see your desk. Today it can mean software that counts your keystrokes, cameras that track your movements, scanner…
MHB Admin · July 10, 2026
For most of the internet's commercial history, digital products were built for an imaginary "average user" — a statistical composite who did not actually exist. Every visitor saw…
MHB Admin · June 29, 2026
In 2022, Warner Bros. Discovery did something that, a generation earlier, would have been almost unthinkable. It took a finished film — Batgirl , completed, scored, ready to relea…
MHB Admin · June 12, 2026
The modern online casino has a branding problem, and its solution looks a lot like a film set. For an industry built on cold mathematics — house edges, RTP percentages, wagering r…
MHB Admin · June 5, 2026
The online casino market has never been bigger, and that is exactly why it pays to be choosy. For every well-run, properly licensed operator, there are sites that bury unfair term…
MHB Admin · June 4, 2026