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Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, July 4. All times are Eastern.
Top pick
We The People (Netflix, 3:01 a.m., complete first season): “Created by Chris Nee, We The People is an animated musical show that doubles as a civics lesson. The series features artists like H.E.R., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Janelle Monáe, and poet Amanda Gorman, who perform original songs and compositions. These songs serve as a call for audiences to reevaluate their understanding of what government, citizenship, and democracy stand for in today’s modern world. Episodes are only three minutes long, and the animation itself looks vibrant and interesting, so it’s sure to be an easy binge. Who wouldn’t want to learn about checks and balances if Hamilton’s Miranda and Daveed Diggs are teaching them through song?” [Saloni Gajjar] Read more about this and other new shows coming to your TV this month in our July TV preview.
Regular coverage
Kevin Can F**k Himself (AMC, 9 p.m.): A reminder that our coverage is following the AMC release schedule, rather than that of AMC+, so tonight’s recap will be for episode four, “Live Free Or Die.”
Rick And Morty (Adult Swim, 11 p.m.)
Wild cards
Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular (NBC, 8 p.m.): Expect musical performances from Black Pumas, Coldplay, OneRepublic, and Reba McEntire, among others, and prepare to be forcibly reminded of this 30 Rock bit.
A Capitol Fourth (PBS, 8 p.m.): And here’s the PBS version of that, hosted by Vanessa Williams.
Major League Baseball, “New York Yankees vs. New York Mets” (ESPN, 8 p.m.): And here’s ESPN’s version.
The One And Only Dick Gregory (Showtime, 9 p.m.): Andre Gaines’ documentary pairs archival footage of the comedian/activist with interviews to “a crucial through line to what Gregory gave voice to during the Civil Rights era — and which continue to be vital today.” The most vital of these interviews is with Gregory himself, who offered insight into his own story prior to his death in 2017.
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This site has been less engaging since TUAYPCW & Wiki Wormhole were scrapped. That & Kinja finding new ways to be dysfunctional.
How can its corporate overlords afford to have a worse comments platform than Disqus? I even had to edit this multiple times to keep this paragraph from being formatted like free verse poetry.
I’m 3/4 through Infinity Train & am going to be annoyed when I run out of episodes.
Batwoman is a series I continue to watch because turning off my television after Legends Of Tomorrow is too hard. The finale was pretty predictable.I guess that’s better than being an utter trainwreck. Now the second season as a whole might be dumpster fire…
https://mattthecatania.wordpress.com/2021/06/28/batwoman-season-2-bows-out/
I wonder what the strategy for management here is? If they want to sell the Giz sites at a profit, then build the entire thing up better, don’t just leave it a smoking wreck.Fix Kinja.
That may not be the only reason that new readers are being left in the greys until they disengage from the site, but it doesn’t help that we can’t find them without significant hoop jumping.
The problem with Kinja is that Nick Denton had a grand vision that they tweaked into something which could have been a force that radically changed blogging, but those he had writing for him couldn’t grasp his vision and because they were too cool for school, they actively pushed against it until he grew tired of the fight and his focus had to go elsewhere. Since then, the system has been owned by corporate entities who have probably never thought or heard about Denton’s original intention and instead of building it out, it became just another place to cut costs.If enough of the backbone still remains and they were to have a fire sale, somebody could get a reach peach, but it’s so far gone now, it’s most likely done.
I’ll see your “Nick Denton vision” and raise you some “Nick Denton self-destructive methods” such as outing private citizens who happen to have “f*** you” money to bankroll some massive lawsuits on his own and others’ behalf.
I suppose Univision didn’t have the idea for building it out, or just couldn’t get the corporate board to go with it.For me, it still seems that the private equity ownership was somewhat in retaliation for Deadspin putting a halt to SyncedLiar Broadcasting’s attempt to dominate the American local TV market via a monopoly.I can’t even imagine what the 2020 elections would have looked like with their uber-Trump misinformation pushing the way it would have, nor what 2021 would have looked like. Nightmarish is the best I can vaguely describe things.
Yeah, and Denton (unknowingly) sold a minority stake to a Andrew Intrater’s Columbus Nova, which has since been tied to the Russian troll farms that tried to influence the 2016 election and though I don’t believe there was a stated quid pro quo, the investment kept Gawker going through the lawsuit and allowed the bloggers to keep making posts about how unexcited and uninspired they were by Hillary through the end of Gawker and into the network’s purchase by Univision.But, that doesn’t change the fact that when it was properly maintained, Kinja could have eclipsed the revenue generated by the blogs, if someone had built-out the system and it had not fallen into so much disrepair.(I don’t know that Denton even understood the possibility of Kinja. He probably could have come to realize it, but the bloggers pushed so hard against it, some of whom I’d say actively thwarted it and his focus had to go to the lawsuit.)
BTW: The bloggers and site administrators are the only ones who can make commenters default to being ungray. In its earliest incarnations, there were no grays in Kinja — comment display order was based on an algorithm which included being followed by a blog — but then trolls blanketed Jezebel with dickpics, so they incorporated the grey system as a filter.The idea was that bloggers would read the comments. They were supposed to star or reply to the the ones they wanted to highlight which would make them display by default and if they felt a commenter wasn’t a troll, who added value to the conversation, they are supposed to follow the commenter on behalf of the blog which would put their comments always in the black.Unfortunately, as we can see from the bloggers to this site, not all of them read comments and some even actively (sometimes loudly) avoid them. The commenting aspect of Kinja was an attempt to force the bloggers to read the comments and engage in the conversation, as Nick would do when he was blogging, but too many of them thought they had achieved the cool kid’s table and refused to participate.
Yep, and that lack of participation by the bloggers in following and ungreying constructive participants is part of a drag on the sites’ readership.
This could be a brain glitch on my part, but I can’t figure out what TUAYPCW is.
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