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Over the next month and a half, Extemp Central will provide R&Ds on the topic areas for the 2022 NSDA National Tournament. USX topic areas will have R&Ds posted on Thursday and IX topic areas will have R&Ds posted on Friday. This is meant to help extempers assemble resources to prepare for the competition in Louisville. This week we tackle USX topic area #1 on arts, entertainment and society.
The Oscars were a queasy spectacle that underlined doubts about the function of the Academy Awards.https://t.co/CYVakASmXL
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) April 28, 2022
U.S. arts, entertainment, and recreation total revenue was $85.6B (seasonally adjusted) in fourth quarter 2021, up 53.3% from fourth quarter 2020, and up 14.5% from fourth quarter 2019. #CensusEconData #QSS pic.twitter.com/gZZAVpcYWW
— U.S. Census Bureau (@uscensusbureau) March 15, 2022
In recent years, entertainment executives have vowed to make a genuine commitment to diversity, but are routinely criticized for falling short. Now studios are turning to consultants to make sure their movies or shows don’t raise any cultural red flags. https://t.co/YzKG7RV03y
— NYT Business (@nytimesbusiness) April 2, 2022
The pandemic sparked a boom for video streaming services. Now, that unprecedented wave of growth may be hitting its limitshttps://t.co/6kdI0ELBp7
— TIME (@TIME) May 3, 2022
Album of the Year winner Jon Batiste is not the kind of phenom who dominates pop culture—but he is one of the most visible working musicians in America, who welcomes a cross-generational, cross-genre audience, @skornhaber writes. https://t.co/kKqpSqQLXQ
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) April 5, 2022
Six states threaten NFL with investigation into workplace harassment of womenhttps://t.co/6eVIRGVLdw
— The Independent (@Independent) April 6, 2022
Watch: After reporting a loss in subscribers for the first time in a decade, Netflix is changing the way it thinks about how people watch https://t.co/4ucvYx6Euj
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) May 3, 2022
American teens are in trouble. There is a growing mountain of evidence that teens are experiencing record levels of anxiety, depression, suicide.
We deserve a plan: How is this crisis in loneliness, depression, suicide going to be addressed?
Read more: https://t.co/stXCycP1HA pic.twitter.com/PMgwlBQfW8
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) April 27, 2022
Lincoln Riley: Lack of NIL rules has ‘completely changed’ college football recruiting https://t.co/jqaX8jEW2l
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) April 9, 2022
The case of one student, Jane Kitchen, has raised questions about what good a liberal-arts education is in America today https://t.co/rS2SW8uy9z
— The Economist (@EconUS) February 26, 2022