Author: Michael

A high school teacher in Richardson, Texas, was arrested after he allegedly solicited a minor online after meeting on the popular dating app Grindr. The Richardson Police Department learned of the allegations against Berkner High School teacher Michael Ralph Fouse when the department received a tip in August from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, according to Fox 4 News. Detectives questioned Fouse, 41, and searched his home before he was arrested on August 28. Fouse has since been charged with the online solicitation of a minor. He was booked into the city’s jail and was held on…

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The New York Times is reviving its Media Equation column, naming media executive and writer Michael Hirschorn to the role. Hirschorn will become the fourth columnist in the role, following David Carr, Jim Rutenberg and Ben Smith, executive editor Joe Kahn and managing editor Carolyn Ryan announced Tuesday. “We’re living through a media maelstrom like never before,” Kahn and Ryan wrote in a note to staff, citing the rise of vertical video and podcasts, the erosion of internet search, the proliferation of deepfakes and the Trump administration’s attacks on the press. “In other words, it’s time to bring back our…

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In the wake of #MeToo, intimacy coordinators have become an industry standard in film and television to help actors navigate shoots of sexual and intimate scenes. For Cynthia Erivo, that became a major help in her latest movie, “Prima Facie.” In the film directed by Susanna White and based on Suzie Miller’s Tony-winning one-woman play, Erivo plays Tessa, a defense barrister in England who rose from a working-class background to earn a Cambridge degree and now is deeply respected at her firm as she is often tasked with representing defendants accused of sexual assault. But her assured outlook on her…

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