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09/06/2026

Dearest Genesis, Rest in Peace 😢💔. Susa in Media 🇵🇬💔

It is with profound sadness and heavy hearts that we mourn the passing of our dear colleague and friend, Genesis Ketan.

Genesis was a respected journalist, leader, mentor, and a cherished member of the PNGFM family. Throughout her distinguished career, she served in various news leadership roles within our organization, including News Editor for NAU FM and Legend FM, before becoming News Director of PNGFM and PNG Hausbung. She dedicated many years to journalism, helping shape the stories that informed our nation and mentoring the next generation of media professionals.

Beyond her professional achievements, Genesis will be remembered for her kindness, strength of character, unwavering commitment to excellence, and her genuine care for those around her. She was a passionate advocate for journalism, a leader within the media industry, and a source of encouragement and inspiration to many.

Her passing leaves a deep void within our PNGFM family and across Papua New Guinea's media community. We are grateful for the privilege of having worked alongside her and for the lasting impact she made on our organization and on countless lives.

On behalf of the Board, Management, and Staff of PNGFM Limited, we extend our deepest and most heartfelt condolences to Genesis's family, loved ones, friends, and all who knew her. During this time of sorrow, may you find comfort in the memories you shared, strength in the love that surrounds you, and peace in knowing that her legacy will continue to live on through the many lives she touched.

Genesis will be greatly missed, fondly remembered, and never forgotten.

09/06/2026

20 years ago today, ‘CARS’ was released in theaters.

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Idris Elba says James Bond doesn’t need to be “woke”

“Bond is big all over the world. And audiences won’t [all] go for a Black male, an African male, playing Bond. That’s not what they like in their culture. Period…

Bond is so unrealistic, so a hint of reality is good, but let’s not try and make it woke. I think you’ve got to be pure to what it is: escapism. Don’t try and answer the world’s taste. Just be Bond.”

08/06/2026

His name was Umberto Eco.
He wasn't a politician. He wasn't a tech entrepreneur. He wasn't a pundit with a hot take and a podcast.
He was a scholar — a man who spent sixty years inside libraries, inside ancient manuscripts, inside the deepest questions human beings have ever wrestled with. How do we make meaning? How does a symbol become a belief? How does a word become a world?
He wrote The Name of the Rose — a murder mystery set inside a 14th-century monastery, where the most dangerous weapon wasn't a sword. It was a book. And the most dangerous idea wasn't heresy.
It was forbidden knowledge in the hands of the unprepared.
He understood, better than almost anyone alive, what happens when information moves without wisdom to carry it.
So in June 2015, when Umberto Eco accepted an honorary degree from the University of Turin and turned to face the journalists in the room, what he said wasn't a prepared speech.
It was a warning.
"Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community. Then they were quickly silenced. But now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner."
The room went quiet.
Because everyone in it knew he wasn't being cruel. He was being precise.
For most of human history, spreading an idea required effort. A book had to be written, edited, printed, and earned its way into hands. A journalist had to answer to editors who asked: Is this true? Can you prove it? A voice had to build credibility slowly — through knowledge, through time, through the hard work of being right more often than wrong.
That process wasn't perfect. Important voices were shut out. Power shaped what got heard. The gatekeepers had their own agendas.
But there was friction. And friction — it turns out — slows things down just long enough for truth to catch up with speed.
Now that friction is almost gone.
A rumor written in anger at midnight can reach a million people before sunrise. A post with no sources, no context, and no accountability can be shared more times than any correction will ever be. Outrage travels faster than nuance. A confident lie moves faster than a careful truth.
Eco understood this — not because he hated technology. Not because he was a bitter old man longing for simpler times.
He understood it because he had spent a lifetime mapping exactly how human beings get deceived. By symbols. By certainty. By the seductive confidence of a voice that sounds like it knows.
His warning wasn't that everyone having a voice is wrong.
Every person deserves to be heard. The democratization of expression — the idea that you no longer need wealth or institutional power to reach an audience — is genuinely, powerfully good.
His warning was about something quieter. The collapse of the space between having an opinion and having expertise. Between speaking and being believed.
We feel that collapse every single day now.
In the health post written with total confidence by someone with no medical training — shared a hundred thousand times by people who trusted the tone, not the facts. In the political story that races ahead of the truth. In the moment satire gets mistaken for news, and no one notices until the damage is done.
The algorithm doesn't reward careful.
It rewards engaging. And "engaging" — too often — means shocking, confirming, or enraging.
Umberto Eco died in February 2016. Just eight months after that warning. Just as the world he described was beginning to fully unmask itself.
He never saw what followed.
But his words survived. And they don't read like criticism anymore.
They read like a map.
So the next time something lands in your feed and every instinct says share this now — pause. One breath.
Ask: Who said this? Why does it make me feel this way? Is the confidence of the writing a substitute for evidence?
Not because you distrust everything. Not because truth doesn't exist.
But because the single most powerful thing any of us can do in an age of noise — is slow down long enough to think.
That, Umberto Eco would say, is not weakness.
That is the only thing standing between information and wisdom.

08/06/2026

“A film is not a vehicle to accuse, or to relay a specific message. If we reduce a film to this, we lose all hope for cinema to ignite a richer conversation. I have never made a film to praise or to criticize something. That kind of filmmaking is nothing but propaganda.”

Happy birthday, Hirokazu Kore-eda

08/06/2026

The mechanical shark that made Jaws terrifying almost destroyed it first. The production built three pneumatic sharks, all nicknamed Bruce, and none had been tested in the ocean. Salt water corroded them constantly, so they broke down almost every day and Steven Spielberg was forced to keep the shark off screen for much of the film.

That accident became the movie genius, because the unseen threat was scarier than any rubber shark. The shoot ballooned from a planned 55 days to 159, and the budget climbed from about 3.5 million to roughly 9 million dollars. Jaws then grossed over 470 million dollars and invented the summer blockbuster.

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08/06/2026

‘BACKROOMS’ is now A24’s highest-grossing film at the worldwide box office.