Liz Crokin, a former magazine insider, now writes about the abrupt changes underway in Hollywood and the media world.
Well over a month ago, a Hollywood insider told me there’s a big shift going on in the entertainment and media industry. The source said that the industry is looking to produce more patriotic and conservative projects to appeal to Trump supporters and more conservative news outlets will pop up.”
Crokin claims that such well-known actors as Meryl Streep, Shia LaBeouf and Amy Schumer are seeing a backlash as roles become harder to get. Their pointed anti-Trump remarks are making them a harder sell for audiences.
At the end of the day, the movie executives and producers in Hollywood who supported Hillary Clinton still need to make money,” the insider explained. “The dollar is still important so they are not going to take a risk alienating a large audience simply because a star like Meryl Streep wants to mouth off and disrespect President Trump.”
The change in direction in Hollywood comes as a relief to conservative actors and producers who’ve kept their politics hidden in order to keep working. Singer Joy Villa’s bold support of Trump at the Grammys won her many thousands of followers on social media and propelled her album to number one on ITunes and Amazon. She now is considering film and television roles.
In the publishing world, anti-Trump magazines are feeling the pinch as well. Us Weekly was especially hard on Trump and surrogates like Laura Ingraham during the campaign, which resulted in a roughly 30 percent drop in newsstand sales in the second half of 2016. Now the magazine is being sold by parent company Wenner Media to American Media.
The Trump effect is being felt in the broadcast world as well.
As Trump has pointed out, CNN and MSNBC have seen a ratings drop since the election while Fox News Channel broke a ratings records the first quarter of 2017. ESPN is suffering the effect of pushing a far left radical political agenda during the election as well. The network announced last week they’re laying off 100 employees.”
It will be interesting to see if the recent shakeup at Fox News, which was marked by the departure of audience favorite Bill O’Reilly, takes the network in a more liberal direction and upsets long-time viewers who aren’t comfortable with the wholesales changes being made.
The mainstream media only seems to do well these days when they feature pro-Trump members — usually in an attempt to make them look bad — of the alternative media such as Mike Cernovich and Milo Yiannopoulos. For instance, 60 Minutes featured Cernovich recently and for the first time possibly ever, the show trended on Twitter and won the ratings battle in that timeslot. It was the show’s first ratings win in almost ten years. Yiannopoulos, the wildly popular former Breitbart tech editor, just announced that he’s launching a new $12 million media company. The star power of conservative media personalities and even right-leaning Hollywood stars will continue to rise as the leftist media continues to dig their own graves deeper if they stay the course.
“Conservatism is the new counterculture. It’s becoming in vogue again to be a good girl and boy, to love God and country, and be polite and smile,” Villa said.
She might be onto something!
Bottom line, long-term success in the entertainment and media world depends on capturing as large an audience as possible. Going out of your way to offend half of your potential customers is a sure-fire prescription for disaster.
Source: The Daily Caller
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Thank God!
Dear Hollywood celebrities, You exist for my entertainment. Some of you are great eye candy. Some of you can deliver a line with such conviction that you bring tears to my eyes. Some of you can scare the c**p out of me. Others make me laugh. But you all have one thing in common, you only have a place in my world to entertain me. That’s it. You make your living pretending to be someone else. Playing dress up like a 6 year old. You live in a make believe world in front of a camera. And often when you are away from one too. Your entire existence depends on my patronage. I’ll crank the organ grinder; you dance. I don’t really care where you stand on issues. Honestly, your stance matters far less to me than that of my neighbor. You see, you aren’t real. I turn off my TV or shut down my computer and you cease to exist in my world. Once I am done with you, I can put you back in your little box until I want you to entertain me again. I don’t care that you don’t like Mr.Trump. But I bet you looked cute saying it. Get back into your bubble. I’ll let you know when I’m in the mood for something blue and shiny. And I’m also supposed to care that you will leave this great country if Trump becomes president? Ha. Please don’t forget to close the door behind you. We’d like to reserve your seat for someone who loves this country and really wants to be here. Make me laugh, or cry. Scare me. But realize that the only words of yours that matter are scripted. I might agree with some of you from time to time, but it doesn’t matter. In my world, you exist solely for my entertainment. So, shut your pie hole and dance!
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IF you are aganist our DULEY ELECTED PRESIDENT, then I would advise you to KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT! WE THE PEOPLE elected him, and YOU have no say in the matter. So just shut your trap!
God Bless President Trump
I think their should be consequences to all the entertainment industry that shows such disrespect for our president, they wouldn’t have dared show such disrespect for our ex useless president Obama and he did absolutely nothing for this country, except bow and apologize all over the world for our country, when Americans had nothing to apologize fo
The most uneducated industry in the world is the entertainment business. It’s a shame that Hollywood doesn’t seem to value education more than that. It prefers it this way because the people are easier to control and intimidate. It really is a plantation system out there disguised as just the opposite.