Rainn makes a good point but why would I give a rats ass what he thinks?!
I have never watched The Office, and do not know this actor. That said, he is not my enemy on this point. So I care.
i would call it another crack in the dam
lets see what kind of pushback wilson gets
loss of subscribers/cancel podcast
blacklisted for future acting work
hostage apology video
Wilson’s a lefty. So the fact he’s pushing back on this is somewhat good news.
I saw the clip on Fox and the funny part was that Fox had “Dwight Shrute” at the bottom of the screen to identify Wilson.
Shrute was Wilson’s character in ‘The Office’.
Why does it matter? Because sometimes Hollywood types speak truth to idiots... and that's worth reporting on - it's a 'man bites dog' kind of story.
The MSNBC people are idiots (but you already knew that) to be interviewing actors on political or social questions ... but I suppose Rainn Wilson, as essentially Stephanie Rule’s peer as a hired hand somewhere in the belly of the Borg, has a valid point of view when it comes to their common employer’s loss of credibility. The loss of credibility hits most directly at the news division, while the actors at least are playing make-believe over in the entertainment division, but the actors are increasingly pushing back against the heavy-handed woke politicization that is degrading their product. In fact, the smarter actors are probably way ahead of the MSNBC talkers in at least identifying the problem. (The stupid actors get their news from MSNBC.)
MSNBC is a division of NBC Universal, which is now owned by Comcast. Comcast is an international conglomerate with roots in telecommunications and cable, but it is also a holding company that dips in and out of various media and entertainment channels as it pursues shifting opportunities. It currently owns Universal Studios, DreamWorks, Peacock, and myriad other properties, but it buys and sells these so regularly that I no longer even pretend to keep up.
An actor is really no different than an MSNBC talking head. They are both mid-level employees in public facing positions. I suppose Rainn Wilson bounces around from gig to gig, but he’s best known for his role on Parks and Rec., which was an NBC show. As a Parks and Rec actor, he and Stephanie Rule simply work for different divisions of the same company, and they are talking about their employer’s loss of credibility.
FWIW, Microsoft was a Comcast/NBC partner in founding MSNBC, but Comcast bought out Microsoft years ago. Once upon a time, Alan Keyes, Tucker Carlson and Pat Buchanan were MSNBC talkers. MSNBC went hard left after Rick Kaplan was replaced by Dan Abrams, and that would have been a top corporate strategic decision. Personnel are policy. Who controls the Board?
There was a time when the movie business, for all its faults, was at least run by movie people for whom success began with selling tickets and putting butts in seats. Television was always in the big gray area, the crossover sector where movies, sitcoms and tv dramas shared platforms and bosses with news and sports, and whatever else the corporate conglomerate happened to own at the moment. Today, however, Big Tech is vacuuming up everything, and reading scripts for Parks and Rec is not much different from reading scripts off a teleprompter for MSNBC. The actor’s boss’ boss is probably the same person as the MSNBC talker’s boss’ boss.
That’s part of the problem. I’d love to see a guest on any of the “news” shows push back hard at the Rachel Maddow types on the problems of their own companies, pointing out that they themselves work for the companies that are responsible for so many abuses.
Comcast? At least it’s headquartered in Philadelphia, not New York or LA. I’d be happier if it moved to Omaha, but anything that tends to decentralize the Borg helps. Part of the problem is the incestuous world that so many of these people inhabit.
“why would I give a rats ass what he thinks?!”
Because low I.Q. voters DO care what celebrities think, and they’re the ones who watch the MSM.