The liberal biased Washington Post is one of several liberal media proapganda outlets trying to defend pervert, predator Harvey Weinstein. Forget for a minute that Harvey Weinstein has give over a million dollars to Democrats over the last decade. Also forget that he’s held numerous big money fundraisers for Democrats like Hillary Clinton over the years that have brought in millions more for Democrats. How could anyone actually defend this pig? Well, the Washington Post tried and failed miserably.
| Washington Post actually tries to defend Harvey Weinstein |
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But Weinstein’s importance transcended money and power: He allowed an increasingly corporate industry to convince itself that it could still make art.
In recent years, it’s become clear that the man who once disrupted the movie industry has been disrupted himself, his uniqueness threatened by the natural evolution of technology, competition and social norms. As his financial and corporate powers have waned, so has his mystique, with his awards-season dominance being usurped by such boutique distributors as Sony Pictures Classics and Fox Searchlight, as well as such shrewd, zeitgeist-y upstarts as A24.
Meanwhile, the filmmakers and stars Weinstein once so assiduously cultivated are now flocking to Netflix and Amazon — even, heaven forfend, premium cable. Harvey Weinstein is no longer the sole proprietor of turning little-movies-that-could into juggernauts.
And as his industry has changed, so has the outside world, where women are claiming the power to call out the kind of predatory behavior that was rationalized and overlooked for so long. In addition to trauma, guilt and shame, the movie business is now left to contend with the wages of their idolatry, however artistically high-minded. Which “genius” actor, comedian, director or producer are they protecting now, and at what human cost? Circling the talent always means turning your back on someone, whether it’s an expendable apparatchik, an innocent victim or your own best self.