The Los Angeles Times featured research by Stacy Smith of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative on the extremely low percentage of speaking roles for Muslim characters in recent popular films. The study will power a new Blueprint for Muslim Inclusion, which is focused on Muslim representation in media.
The New York Times featured an op-ed by Mark Schoofs on the need for federal protection of whistleblowers. "The government has generally avoided prosecuting journalists. But it seems to feel no compunction about going after the people who give journalists their information," he wrote.
NBC News cited research from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative on the low percentage of speaking roles in 2019's top movies that went to Latinos.
NBC News featured research by Stacy Smith and the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative on the extremely low percentage of speaking roles for Muslim characters in recent popular films. "Muslims live all over the world, but film audiences only see a narrow portrait of this community," said study co-author Al-Baab Khan.
Today featured Robert Kozinets on influencer marketing and the growing influencer economy. "Human beings have been enormously creative throughout our history at finding ways to use our relationships with one another in both economic and social ways," he said.
The Guardian spoke with Kate Crawford about artificial intelligence and her new book, Atlas of AI. "We are commonly presented with this vision of AI that is abstract and immaterial. I wanted to show how AI is made in a wider sense — its natural resource costs, its labor processes and its classificatory logics," she said.
The New York Times cited research from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative on the low percentage of Asian actors in Hollywood leading roles.
Karen North spoke with KPCC-FM's AirTalk about the recent trend of people quitting social media. "We're prone to social comparison," she said. "We look at social media and we think, 'Oh, well, we're not as good as the people we're looking at.'"
The New York Times spoke with Allissa Richardson about why the public no longer needs to be constantly exposed to videos of acts of racism or police brutality. "They belong in the realm of the families and juries," she said. "How many times do people need to see the same thing reiterated?"
NBC News cited research from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative on the percentage of Latino main characters in Netflix television shows and movies.
The Los Angeles Times quoted Karen North on the unrest in Huntington Beach sparked by a viral TikTok post. "People want to be a part of that moment," she said. "They want to be able to say, ‘I was there when that happened.’”
Christina Bellantoni appeared on KPCC-FM's Take Two to discuss the next steps if Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is named ambassador to India. "The city council is empowered to appoint an interim mayor," she said. "You don't need to have a special election immediately."