THB #370: Fisking "Hollywood’s Slo-Mo Self-Sabotage"

So a friend (and paid subscriber) asked me to specifically speak to a New Yorker piece this week, written by Ingoo Kang, called "Hollywood’s Slo-Mo Self-Sabotage."

I hadn’t read it, so I did. (I am a happily paying subscriber to The New Yorker.) And in just 11 paragraphs, Koo manages to express, using myriad misleading but real examples, the ignorant hysteria that has become a trend in the last few days.

And so, I Fisk.

You may not have been online in the 90s, when Fisking found its way to the dictionary. So…

For your ease of consumption, I’m going to skip over her first graph referencing Netflix’s Black Mirror…

To survey the film and television industry today is to witness multiple existential crises. Many of them point to a larger trend: of Hollywood divesting from its own future, making dodgy decisions in the short term that whittle down its chances of long-term survival.

Someone, please translate this into reality.

Kang is drinking someone’s Kool-Aid, not dealing with the reality of t…