NY Times: The Woke Movies Era Is Dead

The corporate media, by and large, learned nothing from President-Elect Donald Trump’s Nov. 5 victory.

No major outlet has circled back to the biggest media scandal of our age – a major political party pretended its leader wasn’t diminished by a dementia-like condition.

The recent ProPublica scandal proves journalists are still activists first and foremost.

Yet signs of change can be seen across the media landscape.

The LA Times is looking to hire more right-leaning scribes to bring balance to its hard-Left content. The hosts of “Morning Joe” paid President-Elect Donald Trump a visit to find something resembling common ground.

The most shocking revelation? 

The New York Times uncorked a withering attack on woke Hollywood movies. The piece flexes its progressive bona fides, but large swathes of the article could have been written by The Critical Drinker or Film Threat’s Chris Gore.

The headline and subhead are stunning and brave in their bluntness.

Is the Awkward ‘Diversity Era’ of Hollywood Behind Us?

The past decade’s clumsiest attempts to cram new faces into old stories now feel like a moment, and a genre, of their own.

The same paper that erupted in fury over a Sen. Tom Cotton op-ed let this missive through?

The biggest takeaway? The woke movies era is over. Done. Kaput. And The New York Times appears happy to report it.

The tropes of this passing era are as familiar and easily spotted as with older periods. There is, for one thing, the showy, self-satisfied gender-swapping, as with that 2016 election-year reboot of “Ghostbusters.” 

Yes, the essay has that hard-Left Times veneer, but it also points to serious cultural flaws in the dying era. The op-ed also pays tribute to classic movies, even the “problematic” 007 franchise.

The old Bond films are distinctly of their era but feel timeless; what’s surprising is how quickly this one, in its desperation to be modern, has come to feel dated.

Did Breitbart’s John Nolte sneak into the Old Gray Lady’s headquarters?

The article notes that many beloved movies from the past are still fun to watch, something that does not apply to woke films of this era.

At all.

There’s even a direct attack on liberal critics who, presumably, overpraised woke films because they had the correct message. That’s something Richard Roeper said when reviewers cheered on 2016’s “Ghostbusters” reboot.

At least we no longer have to pretend to like something because it has the right politics, or because the people most vocally against it are Nazis.

Turns out those “Nazis” were right. It’s stunning that The New York Times, of all outlets, shared that news.

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