Publishing's class problem
The 2024 data shows a similar picture of middle-class origin dominance of publishing. Although there are year-on-year variations, since 2019 there has consistently been more than 60% proportions of middle-class origin people in publishing occupations. In the same period, working-class origin proportions have never been above 20%.
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Sources: Sony Music has acquired Hipgnosis Songs, three months after it was rebranded as Recognition Music (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/sony-music-publishing-acquires-hipgnosis-songs-group/
Morpheus Publishing Author's Spotlight
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
A felon in the White House is making crime legal (David R. Lurie/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-making-crime-legal
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p17#a250609p17
Sen. Mike Lee is trying to shoehorn a provision into Trump’s Tax Bill that would bring back large-scale federal public land sales for hundreds of thousands of acres.
If passed, this bill would give radicals in the Trump administration the power to declare our land “excess”
and sell it to private developers and fossil fuel interests.
Public Lands Warriors is trying to bring attention to Mike Lee and his billionaire buddies trying to sneak this crap into the Senate bill.
The chat program is in public domain. This is not the GNU public license.
If it breaks then you get to keep both pieces.
-- Copyright notice for the chat program
NOIRLab image of the week: A Cerulean Moonset over CTIO. Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/H. Stockebrand Via https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2523a/
Apple says it plans to release iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe 26 in the fall; developer betas will be available today, with public betas next month (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/675819/ios-26-macos-tahoe-26-release-date-apple-…
RFK Jr.: HHS Moves to Restore Public Trust in Vaccines (Robert F. Kennedy Jr/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-jr-hhs-moves-to-restore-public-trust-in-vaccines-45495112
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p111#a250609p111
WBD says David Zaslav will be CEO of the new Streaming & Studios business, and current WBD CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels will become CEO of the Global Networks business (Jacob Pramuk/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/09/warner-bro