Column: Netflix CEO's memo on Dave Chappelle is gaslighting

Columnist Mary McNamara is obsessed with the memo Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos wrote to his staff about protests to Dave Chappelle's special.
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Column: Ted Sarandos' Netflix memo on Dave Chappelle is a masterwork of gaslighting Click to view images

Instead of using "creative freedom" to justify Chappelle's special, Netflix should just say what it means: Inclusion is great but money is better.

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Singing great Dionne Warwick, riding the viral success of her Twitter persona, has helped her son open a sound bath and meditation center in Venice.

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Why 'Last Podcast on the Left' will no longer be a Spotify exclusive Click to view images

"Last Podcast on the Left" is the second podcast to end an exclusive agreement with Spotify and will become available on multiple platforms next year.

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"State of Terror," by the former secretary of state and the crime novelist Louise Penny, benefits from the partnership of two very different authors.

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