The company media, by and enormous, discovered nothing from President-Elect Donald Trump’s Nov. 5 victory.
No main outlet has circled again to the largest media scandal of our age – a serious political social gathering pretended its chief wasn’t diminished by a dementia-like situation.
The current ProPublica scandal proves journalists are nonetheless activists at the start.
But indicators of change may be seen throughout the media panorama.
The LA Instances is seeking to rent extra right-leaning scribes to deliver steadiness to its hard-Left content material. The hosts of “Morning Joe” paid President-Elect Donald Trump a go to to seek out one thing resembling frequent floor.
Probably the most surprising revelation?
The New York Instances uncorked a withering assault on woke Hollywood motion pictures. The piece flexes its progressive bona fides, however giant swathes of the article might have been written by The Important Drinker or Movie Menace’s Chris Gore.
The headline and subhead are beautiful and courageous of their bluntness.
Is the Awkward ‘Range Period’ of Hollywood Behind Us?
The previous decade’s clumsiest makes an attempt to cram new faces into previous tales now really feel like a second, and a style, of their very own.
The identical paper that erupted in fury over a Sen. Tom Cotton op-ed let this missive by?
The largest takeaway? The woke motion pictures period is over. Executed. Kaput. And The New York Instances seems glad to report it.
The tropes of this passing period are as acquainted and simply noticed as with older intervals. There may be, for one factor, the showy, self-satisfied gender-swapping, as with that 2016 election-year reboot of “Ghostbusters.”
Sure, the essay has that hard-Left Instances veneer, nevertheless it additionally factors to severe cultural flaws within the dying period. The op-ed additionally pays tribute to basic motion pictures, even the “problematic” 007 franchise.
The previous Bond movies are distinctly of their period however really feel timeless; what’s shocking is how rapidly this one, in its desperation to be trendy, has come to really feel dated.
Did Breitbart’s John Nolte sneak into the Outdated Grey Girl’s headquarters?
The article notes that many beloved motion pictures from the previous are nonetheless enjoyable to look at, one thing that doesn’t apply to woke movies of this period.
In any respect.
There’s even a direct assault on liberal critics who, presumably, overpraised woke movies as a result of that they had the proper message. That’s one thing Richard Roeper stated when reviewers cheered on 2016’s “Ghostbusters” reboot.
At the very least we not should fake to love one thing as a result of it has the suitable politics, or as a result of the individuals most vocally towards it are Nazis.
Seems these “Nazis” have been proper. It’s beautiful that The New York Instances, of all shops, shared that information.