The show-business trade press became politicized sometime during the Obama administration, around the release of the guilt machines Precious and 12 Years a Slave. I learned this from personal experience of how liberal self-righteousness overpowered fairness, yet I must point to a recent instance of straightforward reporting by trade media: On July 28, Variety detailed the news of an industry-wide pro-abortion stance, but the article stopped short of saying that this is Hollywood’s most authoritarian gesture since its infamous 1950s anti-Communist blacklist.
