Saturday morning TV/radio is rather. . . boring and bland. Rehashes of the week's news and garden shows. So while riding my indoor cycle this morning (6 miles) I brought up Cheddar, a channel that seems to specialize, at least on Saturday early a.m., short documentaries and films. Week-days it's a regular news and technology channel and the target is millennials (obviously, not me). It was founded in 2016 by Jon Steinberg. Today I watched one on suspension bridges vs. cable bridges, their design, span and replacement; two on music how brain-sound researchers are manipulating the background music for exercise, shopping, workings, etc. and the changes in hip-hop and rap (and I assume pop and country-western) by young producers using the internet to sell "beats"; and two more on the military, the use of drones primarily during the Obama administration in military targets, and how the military, particularly the Department of Defense has had a cozy relationship with Hollywood ever since Wilson needed to convince the American public to go into WWI. All very interesting, and I can see how the millennial crowd becomes very jaded and cynical. Especially with the stories about drone strikes. Until someone investigated (in 2017) not much was known about the U.S. military branches helping Hollywood.
How the U.S. Military Influences Hollywood on Cheddar
How Focus Music Hacks Your Brain - Cheddar Explains - VoiceTube
Hip Hop's Underground Beat Economy on Cheddar
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