Your Essential Guide to Entertainment Media Bias
McAleer, best known for the documentary “FrackNation” and the upcoming Gosnell feature, is one of the right’s rare film contrarians.
Whenever he brings something new to the marketplace it’s given a thorough examination by arts reporters and critics alike. Is it fair? Balanced? Propaganda? How did he come up with his facts? What, exactly, is his background again? What’s he trying to say, really? Can we trust his methods?
It’s entertainment media bias 101.
It happened most recently with his live production of “Ferguson.” The show, what he called “Verbatim Theater,” retold the death of Michael Brown by officer Darren Wilson via grand jury transcripts. No fictional exchanges or dramatic license.
That death sparked riots and more in Ferguson, Miss. Simply put, it changed the culture.
Turns out a grand jury ordered by the Obama administration didn’t indict Wilson in Brown’s death. In fact, much of what the media told us was true, including the now infamous “Hands up, don’t shoot,” meme, was simply unfounded.
The staged reading ran over four nights earlier last year at the Odyssey Theater in Santa Monica.
You’d think media outlets would be grateful to McAleer, who just posted a “Ferguson” video online for all to see.
He helped set the record straight, after all. Not exactly. Reporters sympathized with some of the actors, both black and white, who quit the show when they realized it didn’t match their pre-conceived notions of the night in question.
In a way, the media did its job when it came to McAleer’s play. Reporters were curious about the project. They questioned how it came to be. They let readers know McAleer’s background so they could better assess the play and its repercussions.
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So why does that rarely happen when liberal artists foist their work upon us?
Remember 2014’s “Obvious Child,” the indie comedy with a strong pro-abortion message. That project wasn’t given the McAleer treatment. In fact, arts reporters embraced the film and its message unabashedly.
For comparison’s sake, here’s how GQ magazine headlined its story about McAleer’s “Ferguson” – “A conservative playwright wrote a play about Ferguson—and even his own cast hated it.”
Which leads us to “Confirmation,” next month’s retelling of the Anita Hill saga. The HBO film, debuting April 16, recalls the nomination battle over conservative Clarence Thomas, highlighted by Hill accusing him of serial sexual harassment.
Will the film be biased? It stars Kerry Washington, one of Hollywood’s most loyal liberals. And it’ll air on HBO, a network well known for its hard-left content (“Real Time with Bill Maher,” “Last Week Tonight,” “Game Change,” “Recount”). This is an election year, after all.
The initial reports on the film didn’t mention those facts. The trailer paints Hill in a sympathetic light.
Now, as some of the real players involved in the hearings are fighting back, the press has been forced to share some of their objections. Outlets still are wary of bringing Washington’s personal biases into the equation.
Nor do they push back when HBO insists it doesn’t play ideological favorites with its programming.
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“We don’t want to push an agenda. We want to find good stories, tell good stories and let the audience decide for themselves what they feel,” President of HBO Films Len Amato told Politico.
That’s pure poppycock for anyone with a remote in hand. Just ask Sarah Palin, savaged by HBO’s “Game Change” telefilm.
So, how will the media treat “Confirmation” going forward? Will critics take into account HBO’s ideological history and that of its star (and executive producer)? Will they examine the facts left out of the narrative, as well as the fictional moments meant to influence audiences?
Here’s a prediction: Watch both the movie and the media’s reaction. You’ll likely see more media bias in action.
You’ve been punked – Phelim Mcaleer is NOT a journalsit:
http://fracknationreview.blogspot.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iQnDN5cD6c
“Confirmation” will be typical Hollywood left wing agitprop.
Put out by Len Amato of HBO–a Dem Party donor.
Starring Kerry Washington and Wendell Pierce–both Dem Party donors
Produced by Michael London and Susannah Grant–both Dem Party donors.
No “diversity” allowed in the making of this film.
I don’t mean to be picky, however the following sentence makes no sense, ” That death sparked riots and more in Ferguson, Miss. Simply put, it changed the culture.” I assume the word, “Miss” refers to Mississippi. The incident in question occurred in Ferguson, MO (Missouri).
Being a Leftist means never actually having know anything.
“We don’t want to push an agenda. We want to find good stories, tell good stories and let the audience decide for themselves what they feel,” President of HBO Films Len Amato told Politico.
Most blatant bald-faced lie I’ve read in a long time. Or at least since the last time Hillary opened her mouth.
“We don’t want to push an agenda. We want to find good stories, tell good stories and let the audience decide for themselves what they feel,” Leni Riefenstahl. Gleichschaltung!
Just so you understand: Hollywood, advertising, pop music, academia, the main stream media, environmentalists, feminists, democrats, Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, liberals, leftists, socialists, Marxists and communists are all on the same team.
don’t watch entertainment tv and havent set foot in a theater in 30 years. hollywood is not a friend of the Republic, it is an enemyt of free thought and expression
Free clue: putting out your opinion using poor grammar and spelling is like showing up at a job interview dirty, smelly, and disheveled.
free clue .. speech nazi’s are usually child abusers who hide in their grandma’s basement and jackoff all day
RE: This Is Why….
….we killed our television twenty years ago. And only buy DVDs of television series and movies we KNOW to be something less than pure propaganda.
Television is educational. Every time someone turns one on, I go read a good book. — Groucho Marx
We’ve been gaslighted by all aspects of the left all my life.