I’m a longtime social media critic, and I’m pretty indiscriminate in my criticism. I don’t trust any algorithm-based platforms or the executives who run them, be that X, Facebook or TikTok. And yet, while I’ve spent months deriding U.S. lawmakers’ laser focus on restricting access to TikTok, I’m starting to find the widespread fawning over the app — now that it might be banned in the U.S. — pretty disturbing. Last week, President Joe Biden signed a foreign aid package that included money for...
A few years ago, filmmakers Emma Schwartz and Mary Robertson remember taking note of video compilations from old Dan Schneider series that showed children and young teens “enacting scenes that are arguably sexual in nature.” “One example you see Ariana Grande squeezing a potato, or Ariana Grande — who was then a young teenager — […]
Netflix’s 3 Body Problem landed atop Nielsen’s latest U.S. ranking of streaming originals, as well as ranked No. 1 on the overall chart — ahead of Prime Video’s Road House remake and Max’s record-breaking Quiet on the Set docu. On Nielsen’s overall chart for the week of March 18, 3 Body Problem led with nearly […]
According to Schneider, the show was a “hit job.”
The story of Noem shooting and killing her 14-month-old puppy has taken a toll on the potential VP pick's public image.
Nickelodeon child endangerment documentary Quiet On Set is now the subject of a lawsuit from its main focus, Dan Schneider. Per TMZ, the creator of such Nickelodeon shows as The Amanda Show, Drake & Josh, and iCarly, Schneider filed a defamation lawsuit against producers of the documentary series. He claims the series implied that he sexually abused child actors and employees he worked with at Nickelodeon. Lawyers for the beleaguered children’s television producer accused the series of...
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched a robust defence of its plans to ‘name and shame’ companies under investigation today after a fierce backlash against the proposed changes in recent weeks.
Josh Brolin - who has filled the formidable comic book shoes of Cable in the Deadpool movies, and of course, Thanos - was reflecting on the fact that he was almost cast as Batman when Zack Snyder eventually chose Ben Affleck. While doing so, he also defended George Clooney, who many consider to be the star of the worst Batman movie. Continue reading Josh Brolin defended George Clooney’s Batman MORE FROM THE DIGITAL FIX: DC...
From the column: "The Iron Range’s water quality as the best in the state. Iron mining occurs in some of Minnesota’s most valued and pristine environmental areas, and the people who live and work in this industry want to keep it that way."
Re-airing any sort of exploitative or sexually explicit material—even for the purpose of exposing a predatory system—is a slippery slope, and it’s one Quiet On Set subjects Raquel Lee Bolleau and Alexa Nikolas say the documentary’s producers didn’t handle well. “After watching the show, I saw that it was not at all what I signed up for,” Lee Bolleau, who had recounted her traumatic time on The Amanda Show and subsequent passion for protecting other young performers for the documentary, told...
Dan Schneider has sued the producers of Quiet on Set for defamation, saying the docuseries falsely implies that he sexually abused children