Three New Year resolutions for the entertainment industry

2014 has been a slog of a year, especially toward the end, and especially if you cover the entertainment industry. It's been a year without a big, transcendent movie hit, a period in which a game-changing TV show, True Detective, reverted to every cliche in the book, and it all ended in the disaster of The Interview. Thank goodness it's over! As we see 2014 out the door, here are three resolutions that pop culture's power players might want to consider for the new year.

But Sony Pictures' retreat is particularly shameful for an industry that likes to champion itself as the best the United States has to offer. The movie business "is both a beneficiary of and a champion for the First Amendment and freedom of speech," Motion Picture Association of America chairman Chris Dodd wrote this year.

"Not only do the stories we tell entertain audiences; they expand culture, educate and inform, and advance debates on important societal issues, constantly challenging us, as a people, to do better. The movies and television shows we create also often serve as de facto US ambassadors to the world. For many people, their first exposure to our nation has come through watching a film or television show.