The jet stream transports moisture-packed air from the Hawaiian Islands region eastward towards California. Because the stream is filled water, it can, in the winter months, bring torrential downpours to California and heavy snow to the Sierra Nevada mountains. This past weekend, this violent act of Mother Nature, blithely referred to by meteorologists safely situated in remote areas as an “atmospheric river,” descended upon the Los Angeles Basin. Bunkered down, caught in this earthly climate gone mad, Next TV writers David Bloom and Daniel Frankel kept their heads cool and their powder dry, biding their time and keeping their loved ones and prized possessions safe, as the waterline steadily and inexorably rose to the level of their mouths and noses. At all times, their robust intellectual prowess remained fixated on the media, entertainment and technology businesses.
DANIEL FRANKEL: Hello, David. Well, another week, another brutal round of journalism layoffs. Looks like the Wall Street Journal's D.C. bureau lost 20 souls on this Friday. This was after we learned that The Messenger had shuttered and fired everyone, without severance, after blowing through $50 million in the course of about a year. But we’ve kind of beaten the death of journalism into the ground lately. How about we pound Netflix's 2024 slate announcement into the cold, dead earth? The return of two of the platform’s biggest series, Bridgerton and Squid Game, and a reboot of a film franchise that debuted 13 years before Netflix shipped its first DVD, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. You see anything to get excited about here?
