#No sin is ever forgiven in the brave new woke world

#No sin is ever forgiven in the brave new woke world

“#No sin is ever forgiven in the brave new woke world” Cancel culture just proved itself more powerful than the devil in Prada herself, Anna Wintour. Years-old tweets you made as a foolish, ignorant teen, and later profusely apologized for, mean you can’t be trusted as editor of . . . Teen Vogue. Alexi McCammond,…

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#Comedy’s Trump-era failure and other commentary

#Comedy’s Trump-era failure and other commentary

“#Comedy’s Trump-era failure and other commentary” From the left: Comedy’s Trump-era Failure Saturday Night Live bungled a golden chance for sharp satire in the Trump years, notes Chapo Trap House’s Matt Christman at The Drift, offering only drab finger-wagging and “apocalyptic moralism.” Right after Election Day 2016, it gave us a lame open of “Kate McKinnon sitting at…

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#The New York Times dilemma and other commentary

#The New York Times dilemma and other commentary

“#The New York Times dilemma and other commentary” Media critic: The Times’ Dilemma The New York Times’ media critic Ben Smith examines recent events and muses that the paper’s “unusual, perhaps unhealthy, central place in American news, culture and politics” makes it “an object of obsession” for others, intensified by its “media ambitions” as it “seeks to…

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