“I don’t want to make fun of
Hollywood
celebrities. I want to talk to them.” That’s how I explained my frequent coverage of popular culture and the familiar faces within it to my editors.
This was a few years ago, and I was working for a conservative media company outside of
Washington, D.C
. I knew a lot about Hollywood, and my posts celebrating conservative actors such as James Woods and zinging liberal
celebrities
such as Amy Schumer had done well.
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Yet I had been trained as a reporter. That’s why I wanted to talk to the celebrities, not just mock them in a blog.
It turns out journalists are more effective that way, too. There are platoons of reporters in Washington, and their hostility to conservatives and advocacy for liberalism can and do affect policy. Why doesn’t the…
