[Applause] [Music] So, the average consumer makes around 35,000 decisions a day. But how many of these decisions are actually yours. In times like 2025, as the influence of the media begins to grow, we start to see that a lot of the decisions we make, especially the things we buy, aren't really our own.So to see or if you think this applies to you, just think about the last thing you bought. Ask yourself, would you still have bought in it if you hadn't seen it online. Of course, there's different scenarios. ...

[Applause] There's an African proverb that says, "If you know someone's story, you cannot harm them. " I feel that in my three decades as a filmmaker, a media educator, and a public television producer, director, and executive producer, I've tried to harness the empathy machine that is cinema to center our shared humanity. But in over a century of moving image media, it's done as much damage and destruction as it has good. This can be seen in a range of work from Hollywood's first feature film, 1915's The B ...

To reach foreigners, government-run outlets in China have reportedly created “media studios”—outfits run by individuals or small teams that obscure their state-media credentials https://t.co/4Nd11HZx01 ...

Have you ever played the video game The Sims where you get to make like a little family and and build a house and stuff. You're all the Sims. I mean, I'm only asking because statistically speaking, you probably have played The Sims or at least you know somebody who has.Somebody like some somewhere like half a billion people have played The Sims over the life of that game. Um or what about Madden. The Madden NFL game.never played that or it's so realistic looking. It's creepy. It looks like NFL footage.Um, M ...

Chinese state media has expanded its reach around the world as the Voice of America and other U.S. government-funded outlets disappear https://t.co/po6YGMTgjq ...