> How can we expect them to pay journalists if we also force them to give their content for free? Reddit should have to pay per view when it clips content.

Thing is though, it goes both ways. A lot of tech sites these days simply skim Reddit, Twitter, and other similar sites to produce "content."

Speaking as a former technology journalist, a lot of this goes back to the erosion of online advertising values that has been accelerating for 15 years. Websites put more ads on, and more obnoxious ads so that people are forced to see them. More ads means less revenue per ad, which means sites put on more ads, which means less revenue... All this adds up to them trying to balance the equation on the side of getting more clicks, and getting content FASTER than anyone else. Not necessarily better, just faster.

Where you used to have websites that did extensive, in-depth testing of devices, now you have somebody slapping together a handful of photos and a reworded press release and calling it a "review" of a new device. It doesn't matter that it's not good; it didn't take long to produce, and they don't care about the quality of their content. Likewise the spike in clickbait even among formerly respectable publications; if a site can get you to click on an article about "The shocking new feature included in all Samsung phones" or the like, it doesn't matter that it was a nothingburger or that it took them five minutes to put together. You already clicked and gave them their ad impressions. Or skimming some user quotes off Reddit and Twitter and giving it some snappy name like "Users trash latest Google service over massive flaws."

The problem comes down to, there's no easy way to fix this. I suppose you could try to build a select crowd that's willing to pay for quality journalism ala Patreon, but Google provides a massive engine to anyone who wants to throw their stuff out there for free. It's like a small, quality restaurant trying to compete with McDonalds. They might attract a following, but McDonalds is still going to represent 99% of the volume.

> An example is tighter immigration policy.

Thing is, their obsession with immigration isn't about H1Bs, it's about brown people coming over the border to work service jobs. Even there, it's more about propaganda than policy--"migrant caravans" anyone?

I hope so, and Colbert being involved gives me a little more hope. It's just that Amber is a lot like Dune in that a LOT of the information and style is conveyed outside of the dialogue. How much of the narrator's knowledge and wit is never really spoken aloud? It's quite a bit.

Glad I'm not the only one who was thinking that. I mean, most of the style of the book is just lost without Corwin's narration. (And later Merlin's, but same thing really.) Maybe they'll actually just bite the bullet and do a voiceover?

He mocked stupid people putting themselves at risk for no rational reason.

> Anything a conservative does he tries to make sound bad

He doesn't really need to work to do that.

Gotta disagree. I enjoyed B5, but DS9 had better overall quality for longer, and a stronger finish.

> One had 7 seasons and the other is Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.

That's hardly fair. One is a goofy sitcom and the other is a drama. A funny drama, but still. And Studio 60 was a great show.

No, he did not. People need to stop making shit up and putting it in his mouth.

> Very briefly, however, I think Ryan has handled the “jumps” very well, and I love love love both the younger Alicent and Rhaenyra and the adult versions, and the actresses who play them. (Truth be told, we have an incredible cast, and I love all of them). Do I wish we’d had more time to explore the relationship between Rhaenyra and Ser Harwin, the marriage of Daemon and Laena and their time in Pentos, the birth of various and sundry children (and YES, Alicent gave Viserys four children, three sons and a daughter, their youngest son Daeron is down in Oldtown, we just did not have the time to work him in this season), and everything else we had to skip? Sure.

> But there are only so many minutes in an episode (more on HBO than on the network shows I once wrote for), and only so many episodes in a season.

https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2022/10/11/random-musings/

I was pleasantly surprised by how quickly they moved the plot along in the first season. Knowing the source material, I know there's a lot more action to come, but it might have been tempting for them to try and drag out the events leading up to where the season left off, if only to guarantee themselves more content for later seasons. I'm glad they didn't go that way.

Something like that, certainly no more than 24. Working on the BSG miniseries under the previous composer Richard Gibbs was basically his first job out of college. When Gibbs didn't come back for the regular series, he became the main composer.

I'd love to see a reboot of Andromeda. It had a great premise, and some really smart/funny episodes early on, but the production values were cheap as hell and the show got hijacked about 1.5 seasons in by Kevin Sorbo's ego. It would be great to see a modern version that kept the interesting setting, got some money for decent effects, and actually followed a coherent story instead of turning into Space Hercules.

One of the EPs has been pitching a new Stargate series for awhile, but there's nothing solid.

Battlestar Galactica. This is not really a competition.

Ramin Djawadi's scores for Game of Thrones and Westworld are an honorable second, but Bear McCreary's BSG soundtrack is the most impressive, most original, and most unorthodox yet appropriate music I've ever seen attached to a TV show. Even McCreary's other work, though impressive, clearly didn't have the level of pure creative freedom he had with BSG.