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It's been a big week for the media-studies majors in your life, so let's send them out with a bang. VF contributor Cristian Farias today speaks with Anna Gomez, the lone Democrat on the Federal Communications Commission, which had, with the indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, the most consequential week in its recent history. Gomez has a lot to say about the precensoring of disfavored speech and corporate responsibility. "Companies should think twice about capitulating this way," she tells Farias. "It is up to them, to those companies, to stand up to defend their First Amendment rights instead of capitulating."
Elsewhere today, Laura Bradley continues her series on the death of late night, which already seemed to be well underway before Kimmel's suspension; Natalie Korach talks to Peter Doocy about his expanded role on the Fox News media desk; and Rebecca Ford meets Odessa Young ahead of a profile-raising role in the upcoming Bruce Springsteen biopic. More Monday… |
Since the early days of the Trump administration, Anna Gomez, the sole Democrat member of the Federal Communications Commission, has been one of the loudest voices from within the federal government, sounding the alarm about the dangers to a free press and free expression coming from her own agency.
In the wake of the Kimmel controversy, Vanity Fair spoke with the commissioner while she was on an Amtrak train to New York City, where she was scheduled to speak about the importance of broadband access: "This is the clearest and most alarming attack on the First Amendment and free expression by our government in recent memory. So I am very concerned." |
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In part two of our late-night series, nearly a dozen insiders examine the economic forces pummeling the genre, and consider who's really to blame. As one puts it, "If 5 million people are watching a show every single night and you're not making money off of it, that's your fault." |
With VF, the Fox News senior White House correspondent talks Charlie Kirk, Trump death rumors, and being a Fox News nepo baby. |
The Oscar-winner's life was filled with decades of love marked by a series of stunning gems—almost as famous as Taylor herself. |
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Odessa Young has been acting professionally since she was 11 years old—and delivering daring work in art-house dramas since her breakout performance in the bloody, provocative 2018 slasher Assassination Nation. Since then, the native Australian has starred opposite many of the internet's current boyfriends, including Logan Lerman, Josh O'Connor, and Jacob Elordi. Next she's playing opposite Jeremy Allen White in Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, out in October. As her first studio movie, it's a major step up for Young—and a much bigger spotlight. "No longer an indie darling," the 27-year-old says with a smirk.
VF's Rebecca Ford checks in with the rising star. |
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