‘The Daily Show’ delivers a masterful takedown of that Fox News Chinatown segment – The Washington Post

The blowback to a Fox News segment this week that was chock full of Asian stereotypes has been loud and swift. Activists, Asian American organizations and journalist associations have called Jesse Watters’s man-on-the-street interviews for “The O’Reilly Factor” racist and demanded explanations. Then, on Thursday night, “The Daily Show” responded with the kind of angry critique of Fox News that was the…

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “Beyoncé’s Type of Feminism Is Not Mine” – The Culture

Before Beyoncé used a snippet of a TED Talk from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for her hit song “***Flawless” in 2013, Adichie was an acclaimed author. She’d already published Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah, which won the National Book Critics’ Circle award.But, somehow, her accomplishments are always linked to popstar. That became a point…

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Adult Swim’s excuse for not hiring women is a perfect example of TV’s problem – Polygon

Earlier this week, Adult Swim’s executive vice president and creative director Mike Lazzo was accused of purposely not taking on any female creators or showrunners by anonymous employees at the network because “when you put women in the writers room, you get conflict, not comedy.” Adult Swim, according to a recent Buzzfeed report, has the lowest…

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Warren Ellis to Reboot Wildstorm Universe at DC

Jim Lee will be kept as far away as possible. Source: ComicBook.com According to an EXXXCLUSIVE report at comic book website template generator ComicBook.com, superstar writer Warren “Garth Ennis” Ellis will helm a rebooting of the Wildstorm Universe at DC Comics. Wildstorm was originally created by Jim Lee in the early nineties as part of…

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“Luke Cage” was so popular Netflix just crashed and the Internet went downhill faster than you’d think

Myles Aronowitz/Netflix The highly anticipated new series Luke Cage premiered on Netflix on Saturday, which naturally resulted in countless binge-watchers indulging in all 13 episodes of the first season. Apparently Netflix crashed in isolated areas, leaving Luke Cage fans WITHOUT LUKE CAGE! As you can imagine, it was a nightmare for those people. Just so we’re all the same…

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