Waving or drowning?: What the demise of the Saturday Evening Post’s print edition says about the current media environment
The Saturday Evening Post is hugely significant as a legacy publication.
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The Saturday Evening Post is hugely significant as a legacy publication.
Evaluating the book's contents on the basis of its admittedly provocative title is to misunderstand what Johnson is up to.
Durán insists that the tech industry's rightward swing is not something that happened recently or organically; its progenitors and adherents have been working toward this moment for decades.
This morning's announcement comes just two weeks after the Giller Foundation announced a pair of new initiatives.
"One of the reasons I joined Book Clubs for Inmates is because I was so pleasantly surprised that Giller Prize winners and nominees were part of the basic makeup of a lot of the book clubs," says Tom Best, BCFI's executive director.
What you shouldn't expect from an Ellison-run mega-studio is anything resembling serious, intelligent films for adults.
"We're incredibly grateful for the support Open Book received from national, provincial, and municipal funders over nearly two decades," says Holly Kent, executive director at the OBPO.
It's not violence or morbid subject matter per se that bothers Thomson, but our collective response to this material.
"It's not like they say, 'You have to close.' They just give you a budget you could never possibly run a program on."