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September 17, 2005

Response to "No nuance"

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Richard Baehr adds: A good piece of work, Steven! 

It is worth noting that, now basking in the glory of five Pulitzer prizes, with no other paper winning more  than two, the LA Times' hubris, and self—righteousness will only worsen. The Schwarzenegger smear  campaign is old news and forgotten.  Being in LA, star journalists can mingle and socialize with Hollywood celebrities.  The PC politics of this star crowd becomes a badge of pride for writers, and editorialists.  In pehaps no other city are all the rich and famous, so uniformly on one side  of every political issue. 

Ron Brownstein, the LA Times political writer also makes it  more and more obvious every day whose ox needs he thinks needs to be gored.  Today on Tim Russert, he had the moxie to defend John Kerry's "It's their (the Administration's) problem" approach to Iraq, as consistent and principled. 

Richard,
 
Hollywood does at times appear to be politically monolithic. It isn't quite. I myself write screenplays, though I'm far more the outsider than insider, and it is well known that there are numerous actors with independent views. (And of course, actors, though disproportionately visable in Hollywood, don't make up the whole of it.) I suspect that industry insiders themselves buy into a mythology of political uniformity in Hollywood and that we'd hear more independent voices if only such people weren't reluctant to  "come out."
 
Steven Zak
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