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The Times, They Are A-Changin’: Old Media, New Media, How They Shape Our World – And How We Shape Them

Published by Sam Flynn on June 8, 2015

(UPDATED: 6/20/2015) Media is changing. Newspapers are going the way of the dinosaurs. The Internet, once praised as a bastion of political activism, has become a battlefield. On Friday, a feature piece published in The New York Times detailed one journalist’s investigation into coordinated cyber-trolling, a journey that took him…

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The Hollywood Echo Chamber: Bizarrely Similar Storylines of ‘Avengers’ and ‘Justice League’ films

Published by Sam Flynn on April 16, 2015

Welcome to a new, semi-regular column where I analyze movies past, present and future that seem more-or-less separate at idea birth. Hollywood is a great big bubble (or womb, to keep the metaphor going) and some ideas keep repeating and cycling out. This is the Echo Chamber.  It’s not original to…

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10 Blockbusters in 2015 With the Most Potential To Be Awesome or Terrible

Published by Sam Flynn on January 15, 2015

Here’s the films that I predict will dominate the blockbuster conversation in 2015. These franchise-starters, continuers, sequels, reboots, re-quels etc. is Hollywood’s way of basically saying “More is more, right?” Disclaimer: if you disagree with my picks, that’s totally cool. Disagreement with my opinions however can be taken up with…

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