Hollywood Blog Posts
Is the Media’s Praise of One Battle After Another Politically Biased?
Recommended Reading / October 8th, 2025 / by Chris Mangum

Yesterday I sat down in my local theater to watch Leonardo DiCaprio’s new film, One Battle After Another. DiCaprio has long been known as a social-justice advocate, and over the past decade his film c...
See moreEntertainment Can Improve How Democrats and Republicans See Each Other
Recommended Reading / June 26th, 2025 / by James Coan

Entertainment has been used for decades to improve attitudes toward other groups, both in the U.S. and abroad. One can think of movies like Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, helping change attitudes towar...
See moreHow News Outlets Wrote About Elliot Page
Bias / December 4th, 2020 / by Joseph Ratliff

News publishers were faced with a test of their reporting standards on Tuesday when Elliot Page, the Oscar-nominated actor formerly known as Ellen Page, came out as transgender. The rights and identit...
See moreFact Check: Is Trump's Star Being Removed from the Walk of Fame?
News / August 7th, 2018 / by Julie Mastrine

Is Donald Trump's star being removed from the Hollywood Walk of Fame? Judging from many of today's headlines, you would think so. But any media consumers who read only the headlines might be misled. T...
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