US taxpayers forked over $8.5 million to the federal government for dozens of podcasts in the past four years, with several promoting left-wing priorities, according to a report on the spending exclusively obtained by The Post.
This week, asking which advances qualify as genuine progress…
Last Friday, Ben Sisario of the
New York Times laid out some noteworthy developments in the international effort to make the music-streaming economy more equitable to artists. The state of play there underscores how ossified the systems for distributing and compensating visual art remain in 2021. But the comparison also invites a very serious question about whether visual artists are actually worse off as a result as well as whether that question misses the point entirely.
Sisario’s piece largely centers on the U.K., where the British Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Committee began investigating the business of streaming in October 2020. He writes that the group’s “aggressive questioning of tech and record executives” has “riveted the industry” throughout the proceedings, which will end with a formal report likely to be issued “in the coming weeks.”