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How Should Hollywood Deal With Offensive Archival Content?
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For major Hollywood studios launching streaming services, film archives are a lucrative and nostalgic selling point — but they are also home to films with problematic pasts.
Whether the films have racist, sexist, homophobic or otherwise offensive content, Hollywood is working to figure out how to deal with those assets.
Rebecca Keegan, senior film editor at The Hollywood Reporter, said some platforms have turned to advisory councils and interest groups.
“What some of the streaming services have begun to do is to put a warning label at the top of the phone when you start watching something,” she said on KPCC’s Take Two. “You would be alerted that you're going to see something here that may be offensive.”
Streaming services use original content to draw new viewers, but archival content keeps them. In 2020, almost 80% of demand on Disney+ was for older content; on HBO Max, that number is closer to 90%.
— Olivia Riçhard
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In The Unlikely Event Of A Tsunami, Long Beach Is Getting Prepared
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This week marks the start of Long Beach's Tsunami Preparedness Week — a week spent raising awareness around a natural disaster that many don’t think of when it comes to the dangers facing California.
Dr. Lucy Jones, a research associate at the Seismological Laboratory of Caltech and author of the book, The Big Ones, says the greatest threat to Southern California is the lack of reinforced infrastructure:
“When we have that San Andreas earthquake, and we have the shaking onshore … everybody's much closer to the fault,” she says.
Jones says that, while possible, the likelihood of a major Tsunami hitting California's coast is minimal.
“To have the really big tsunami, you need to move a huge amount of water,” she says. “It would be much harder for us to be hit by it. We do not have the subduction zone off of California.”
Nevertheless, Jones says it's always good to be prepared. For more information, go to Long Beach’s disaster preparedness website.
— Olivia Riçhard
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