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A lot of the "culture wars" we engage in over movies and sports can be fixed with better media training. If actors/actresses and athletes know that 98% of the reporters they talk to have a political agenda, they might starve the media of the partisan clickbait they are looking for. Exhibit Q of this is the Supergirl movie, where actress Milly Alcock allegedly said something, according to Vanity Fair, according to a Variety article about the Vanity Fair interview, according to a misleading tweet from Variety about the Variety article about the Vanity Fair interview.

Whoever does Sydney Sweeney's media coaching needs to expand. She never takes the bait, even as reporters try over and over and over again. Same with Tom Cruise. Because if you give reporters the opening, they're going to create content like this:

"[Franchise IP]" does a lot of heavy lifting here.

Since the trailer for Supergirl dropped, Variety would have you believe the actress is complaining about fans and critics before they've even seen the movie. It's the Lady Ghostbusters promotional technique. Variety would have you believe this is a major concern of Alcock's.

As opposed to a throwaway line, she allegedly said to a reporter in a print interview. And she wasn't even talking about Supergirl.

Has the famously fickle Game of Thrones fandom prepared Alcock for the inevitable backlash she’ll face? “It definitely made me aware that simply existing as a woman in that space is something that people comment on. We have become very comfortable having this weird ownership of women’s bodies,” she says. “I can’t really stop them. I can only be myself.”

It was a milquetoast quote where maybe she tried too hard to sound thoughtful. Also, according to the streets, she never experienced backlash from Game of Thrones, so it doesn't make much sense anyway.

This is what the media does. Variety did it to the Superman movie, where, after months of James Gunn refusing to take the media's bait, they found a print interview he gave overseas in which he allegedly called the movie "political." Variety created clickbait based on it. People online reacted to the clickbait. Then Variety had an excuse to grab actors on the red carpet. "MAGA is upset at your movie. What do you say to that?"

The word "fascist" was used in the new Daredevil series, and the media turned that into an analogy about Donald Trump enforcing immigration laws, even though the show has nothing to do with immigration. But it created an excuse to ask the actors in the show about the analogy, and they had to pretend they had given it a modicum of thought.

Does Milly Alcock agree with us politically? She's an unmarried zoomer from Australia in the entertainment industry, so I'm guessing no. And maybe the movie will turn out to be the drizzling sh*ts. I'm just saying hate it for sh*tty movie reasons, not for contrived media reasons.

The media we don't trust when they create content about politics is the same media that reports on celebrity gossip.

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