WarnerMedia may be experiencing more than changes at its properties. This could be the beginning of a new cultural turn in the west.
Social justice advocates and activists have had control over the studios for many years. It has spread so deeply that Disney, once a company that made quality entertainment for children, has now become an activist political organization that is willing to wage war on legislation that has nothing whatsoever to do.
WarnerMedia also got infected by this virus, but the merger of Discovery and WarnerMedia resulted in a shift in attitude. One, Jeff Zucker was abruptly removed as president. He had been responsible for driving CNN to the ground with an unmitigated, inexcusable, political bias. Chris Licht took his place. His task was to bring CNN back into the center. The move was supposed to revitalize CNN, which had fallen into a “sorry state of affairs” and work was to begin turning it around.
Today, it was announced that one of the worst offenders in journalism, Brian Stelter, is fired from CNN as his show “Reliable Sources” has been terminated. The firing of Stelter isn’t just tossing out bad rubbish. Stelter was known for being an unruly host on CNN and for his obedience to the Democrat Party. As Fox News covered at length, Stelter’s show was supposed to be dedicated to covering some of the biggest stories in media and yet, he refused to comment on anything that went against his bias or inconvenienced his party.
Stelter’s reputation as being a leftist puppet for the Democrat Party was widely known, and his show’s ratings reflected the people’s distrust of him. Now he’s fired, and the earth where his show stood has been salted. Moreover, I don’t think he’ll be the last one.
(READ: The Boom Gets Lowered on Brian Stelter as CNN’s Chris Licht Begins the Purge)
There are many other steps that indicate a significant change, beyond CNN. Warner’s movies are also being canned, the most headline-grabbing of which was the upcoming “Batgirl” movie which was a highly woke creation featuring a Latina Batgirl that replaces Michael Keaton’s Batman after he dies in the film, according to rumors.
It was made, and is currently in post-production. It had been estimated that it would cost around $90million. Warner Bros. decided against it and decided to dump it all on the trash heap. Millions of dollars were just tossed aside with the snap of a finger, and allegedly after test audiences were so disgusted by it that one audience member described it as “unspeakable.”
It is a bold move. Warner CEO David Zaslav is reported to be obsessed about creating an Avengers-style universe. It is not uncommon for Warner with its DC superhero roster to create a woke film that will drive people away. Although this is not a rejection of woke cultural practices, it does signal that the woke culture has a negative impact on business and drives customers away.
Bounding Into Comics reports that rumors of an internal conflict at Warner Bros. have circulated. They are centered on woke, politically divisive content and ongoing contracts prohibiting its complete removal. It’s currently unconfirmed whether or not these rumors are true, but the complete decimation of CNN+ seems to fit with this new strategy of pushing out the politics.
CNN+ would feature individuals who exemplify political division, like Chris Wallace, Don Lemon and Rex Chapman. Its debut was met with so little support it was embarrassing for the whole company.
Pair all of this with Zaslav himself denouncing “advocacy networks” and you seem to have a company that’s actually attempting to right a ship that’s listed too far to the left.
All of this points to a corporation that is trying to pry the left’s grip off of it and return to making products that appeal to a general audience, not a specific ideological group. All of this is not small, and they all go against social justice media.
If I’m reading the signs correctly, then this is a huge deal. Warner is one of the largest studios in the western world, and if it sees success by producing apolitical movies and television while bringing CNN into a less biased way of operating then there’s no possible way other studios don’t take notice and begin attempting to implement a rejection of leftist politics themselves.
What we might be witnessing is no less than the end of woke culture’s dominance over the mainstream.
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