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🗓️ 4 February 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s On the Media, what the data says about how boys and men are struggling today. Plus, the history behind Ticketmaster’s dominance in the live music industry, and how Hollywood trust-busting in the 1930s and 1940s unleashed an era of indie films.

1. Richard Reeves [@RichardvReeves], a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution and author of the book Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It, on the research that shows gender disparities growing in a surprising direction. Listen.

2. Moe Tkacik and Krista Brown [@moetkacik and @KristaKBrown], researchers at the American Economic Liberties Project, on how the grunge band Pearl Jam tried to take on Ticketmaster in the 1990s. Listen.

3. Peter Labuza [@labuzamovies], a film historian and researcher with the International Cinematographers Guild, on how a Supreme Court case broke up Hollywood's studio system and what this history can teach us about the present moment. Listen.

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0:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Michael O'Neill.
0:04.6	Tonight we're taking a closer look at disturbing data that shows a rise in depression and suicides in men.
0:10.4	There's mounting evidence that men and boys are struggling, but understandably that can cause some cognitive dissonance.
0:17.3	The idea of gender equality was synonymous with the cause of women and girls for, I don't know, let's say, 10,000 years?
0:23.9	Until yesterday, culturally speaking.
0:26.4	Also, the congressional hearings about ticket masters monopoly weren't the first time the company had been called to the hill.
0:32.8	Pearl Jam played Capitol Hill on Thursday to begin three hours of testimony about ticket master.
0:38.5	Meanwhile, an old antitrust case in Hollywood has inspired modern day comparisons.
0:44.5	Streaming prices are going up. Your Netflix account, your Disney Plus account, your HBO Max account,
0:50.5	as they've been able to eliminate all the competition, they raise prices.
0:55.4	It's all coming up after this.
1:00.3	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:03.7	Brooke Gladstone is out this week. I'm Michael O'Neill.
1:07.6	This January saw a record number of mass shootings.
1:11.3	A mass shooting in Florida that the police chief there calls the most people he has ever seen shot at one time.
1:17.3	The authorities saying that three people have been shot at the Potomac Avenue Metro station there.
1:22.6	Park break and outrage tonight in West Baltimore as our city sees yet another mass shooting.
1:29.0	These kinds of tragedies have historically shared some things in common.
1:33.0	At least half featured weapons purchased legally.
1:36.0	The perpetrators usually range in age from their late teens to early 40s.
1:40.2	And then there's this.
1:41.4	According to the Violence Project, a nonpartisan research group, 98% of these crimes have been committed by men.
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