Each week, we share the top five articles that caught our attention. Here are your must-reads, published here and abroad, for the week of July 30, 2018.
The legacy of the macho prank show
From Jackass and Dirty Sanchez to Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who is America?, how is this strain of TV series influencing new content for television?
→ Read it on The Baffler
From “bitch” to feminist heroine
Twenty years ago, Meredith Blake, a character on The Parent Trap, was the woman we all loved to hate. But today, however, she’s a source of inspiration for women wanting to reclaim the word “bitch”.
→ Read it on Vox
The fact-checkers who want to save the world
Since the 2016 election, a number of independent media organizations and industrious individuals have set out on an ambitious task: to fix the truth. Can a new wave of fact-checking solve the fake news problem?
→ Read it on The Ringer
Redefining the “classic”
Today’s bestsellers don’t sell at the same rate as literary classics like “Catcher in the Rye” did. But it’s not because Millennials aren’t reading books… in fact, they actually read more than their older counterparts.
→ Read it on Quartzy
Cowboys and the popularity of western music
How did cowboy hats and boots become the visual iconography of American rural music?
→ Read it on Longreads
In your earbuds: How did this get made?
What is the most incredibly bad movie you’ve ever seen? Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael and Jason Mantzoukas review the worst cinematic flops.
→ Listen to it on iTunes
Who to follow:
Diego Cusano, eclectic artist of international renowned, has turned his passions into a new profession, Fantasy Researcher. After completing a Master’s Degree in visual arts and graphic design, Cusano travelled all over Europe in search of new creative stirrings, determined to create a unique artistic identity.
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