Despite the plethora of evidence illustrating otherwise, entertainment writer Brian Lowry took to Oliver Darcy’s website Status — which has twice threatened to cancel my subscription — Monday night to complain Sunday’s Oscars had “los[t] its voice” and “collective nerve” by refusing to pay proper tribute to the late Rob Reiner by making the evening a courageous stand against President Trump, a man Hollywood and their ilk have falsely maligned as terrifying dictator and pedophile.
Lowry had his thumb on the scale from the headline and subhead: “The Oscar Loses Its Voice; The Academy Awards paid tribute to Rob Reiner, but at a politically fraught moment closed a cautious awards season by steering clear of the outspokenness and activism that defined the director’s career.”
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