The Hollywood Reporter (THR) has long been a major publication in the entertainment industry, but that doesn’t appear to make them feel any responsibility for being fair and balanced. Over the years, they’ve made no secret of their disdain for President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican Party. A new article by their reporter James Hibberd on how to “digitally silence” Trump and “block (him) from all your screens” is a prime example. From the very first sentence, the TDS was strong. Hibberd wrote: Now that Donald Trump has been re-elected to a second (and perhaps final) term, some Americans are getting ready to Resist once again. Not just resisting, friends. They mean Resisting! With a capital R! And did you catch the not-so-subtle fear-baiting with the insinuation Trump might do away with elections? Yes, we’re laughing, too. Hibberd then goes on to point out that his article isn’t for those who are preparing to capital R resist again: This is for those of you who feel like: I already did all that! For four years! And he’s still back! Oh, no! Whatever shall they do?! Well, Hibberd wants to ensure they don’t cling to the hope that everything will be just fine because Trump was already president once. No, Hibberd claims that kind of logic is akin to playing Russian Roulette and thinking everything will go well because it did before. He also argues if you read about Trump’s “circus” or one of his quotes, then Trump is essentially “putting his voice in your brain.” He even goes so far as to call it “assault-y”: Look, we don’t want to overstate this, but it starts to feel vaguely assault-y when you cannot escape one man’s monologue no matter where you go or what you do. Trump’s random 2 a.m. ALL-CAPS thoughts become official public statements, which become media headlines, which pop up on your phone, which go into your mind and can cause — for some — anxiety, annoyance, anger and despair. This is Serious stuff, people! With a capital S! But those poor “undocumented immigrants” (meaning people who knowingly entered the country illegally and knew the risks involved in doing so), won’t have the luxury of following Hibberd’s tips, he points out. He follows that with another ominous warning: At some point, perhaps, a crisis might occur where none of us will have that luxury. Is it any wonder people are trying to kill Trump, and one woman even killed her father on election night with a pick axe after arguing with him about Trump, when publications like THR are pushing such complete Chicken Little nonsense? Included at the top of Hibberd’s guide is a “Trump blocker extension for Chrome.” Yes, that really exists. Too bad there isn’t a liberal propaganda blocker but then again, conservatives know how to be big boys and girls and not have emotional breakdowns when things don’t go their way. It’s called “Adulting.” THR would be doing their readers a much better service by reporting on how to do that instead.

The most ridiculous program title at National Public Radio is the one-sided evening newscast called All Things Considered. But Fresh Air is pretty close, since it also sounds like endlessly recycled left-wing bilge that we involuntarily subsidize with our tax dollars.  On Wednesday's Fresh Air, NPR host Terry Gross put on ex-Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron and New Yorker editor David Remnick for another.44-minute rehash of all the pompous talk about how Donald Trump hates "fact-based" journalism as it's published by these two propaganda organs for the left. Online, it was headlined "Veteran news editor expects Trump 'to go after the press in every conceivable way'." It was especially humorous when Baron complained "I would expect that he would deny funding to public radio, such as this" and would turn Voice of America into a "propaganda outlet." This hour of "public radio" only underlined how much NPR is a propaganda outlet against Trump and the Republican half of America. Gross began by asking "What are some of your biggest concerns about the type of retribution Trump will carry out against the news media?" Remnick turned right back to Stalin references:  REMNICK: I think when he says that the press is an enemy of the people, whether he's consciously or unconsciously quoting Joseph Stalin, which is where that phrase came from most recently - it goes all the way back even to the Jacobins in the aftermath of the French Revolution - the enemies of the people, I think we should take it seriously. Whether he will (laughter) put people in jail or have his Justice Department, possibly run by Matt Gaetz, or his FBI, possibly run by Kash Patel, really go after people and put them in prison, prosecute them or go after their taxes or whatever it might be, I think it should be taken deadly seriously. He also compared Trump to Putin: “The Putin regime shows us when there is no truth, everything is possible. Lying has come from White Houses for decades and decades. But Donald Trump has changed the game.” Remnick lives for these references. Gross pointed out he hosts The New Yorker Radio Hour, which naturally is syndicated across the country on "public radio" stations. An episode right before the election highlighted "Rachel Maddow on the Fascist Threat in America, Then and Now." Baron tried to claim they didn't "rig any election" with the Democrats, and he know there would be no follow-up on how it took the Post about two years to acknowledge the Hunter Biden laptop was real.  BARON: I do think he will use every tool in his toolbox, and there are a lot of tools. But first, I would say that there was no rigged election, and secondly, that we didn't conspire with the Democratic Party to rig any election. And the second thing I would say is that any attack on the free press is not - it's not just an attack on the free press. The intent is to suppress free expression overall. This is bizarre, considering the leftist media's fervent support for Big Tech censorship against the conservative media. But Baron kept insisting that they were the "fact-based" media and Trump hates free expression. The two journalists talked up how leftist groups like the Committee to Protect Journalists have turned their focus from reporters in danger abroad to reporters in America. Baron repeated his sermon:  BARON: Anybody who's studied authoritarianism elsewhere -- I've paid a lot of attention to it in Latin America -- sees that these are the kinds of measures that are put into place in order to consolidate power. And as I said before, the objective here is not just to go after the press. The reason they go after the institutional press is because they actually have some sway and have some resources and can do their job in a systematic and deep way. But the objective here is to suppress free expression by anyone. Defunding government-funded radio is "authoritarian." That's an interesting argument. 

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