by Ben Shapiro
29.“You would say that wouldn’t you! Sarah Silverman says progressives should allow cancel-culture victims a ‘path to redemption’—after she was fired from film role for blackface,” DailyMail.co.uk, October 26, 2020, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8880547/Sarah-Silverman-slams-non-forgiving-cancel-culture-progressives-warns-digging-mistakes.html.
30.Nick Vadala, “Dave Chappelle defends Kevin Hart in controversial new Netflix comedy special ‘Sticks & Stones,’” Inquirer.com, August 28, 2019, https://www.inquirer.com/entertainment/tv/dave-chappelle-netflix-comedy-kevin-hart-louis-ck-michael-jackson-20190828.html.
31.Christian Toto, “Bill Burr: Cancel Culture Made Me a Better Stand-up Comedian,” HollywoodInToto.com, https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/bill-burr-cancel-culture-stand-up-comedian/.
32.Ben Cost, “‘Mr. Bean’ actor Rowan Atkinson equates cancel culture to ‘medieval mob,’” NYPost.com, January 5, 2021, https://nypost.com/2021/01/05/mr-bean-rowan-atkinson-says-cancel-culture-to-medieval-mob/.
33.Center Is Sexy, “Graphing Rotten Tomatoes’ Political Bias,” Medium.com, September 18, 2019, https://medium.com/@centerissexy/graphing-rotten-tomatoes-political-bias-957e43986461.
34.Owen Gleiberman, “Healthy Tomatoes? The Danger of Film Critics Speaking as One,” Variety.com, August 20, 2017, https://variety.com/2017/film/columns/rottentomatoes-the-danger-of-film-critics-speaking-as-one-1202533533/.
35.Peter Bradshaw, “Variety’s apology to Carey Mulligan shows the film critic’s ivory tower is toppling,” TheGuardian.com, January 28, 2021, https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jan/28/variety-apology-carey-mulligan-film-critics.
36.Megan Garber, “Hey, Look, the New Ghostbusters Didn’t Kill Ghostbusters,” TheAtlantic.com, July 15, 2016, https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/07/hey-look-ghostbusters-didnt-kill-feminism/491414/.
37.Matt Miller, “The Year Star Wars Fans Finally Ruined Star Wars,” Esquire.com, December 13, 2018, https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a25560063/how-fans-ruined-star-wars-the-last-jedi-2018/.
38.Hannah Giorgis, “The Fear in Chappelle’s New Special,” TheAtlantic.com, August 28, 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/08/dave-chappelle-doubles-down-sticks-and-stones/596947/.
39.Jordan Hoffman, “Dave Chappelle Releases a Passionate and Raw Comedy Set, Making George Floyd Protests Personal,” VanityFair.com, June 12, 2020, https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/06/dave-chappelle-releases-a-passionate-and-raw-comedy-set-making-george-floyd-protests-personal.
40.Lorraine Ali, “Review: Dave Chappelle’s new special isn’t stand-up. It’s an anguished story of violence,” June 12, 2020, https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-06-12/dave-chappelle-846-youtube-netflix-george-floyd.
41.David Sims, “Hillybilly Elegy Is One of the Worst Movies of the Year,” TheAtlantic.com, November 23, 2020, https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/11/hillbilly-elegy/617189/.
42.Todd Spangler, “Netflix Launches ‘Black Lives Matter’ Collection of Movies, TV Shows, and Documentaries,” Variety.com, June 10, 2020, https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/netflix-black-lives-matter-collection-1234630160/.
43.Kiersten Willis, “Netflix, Amazon and Hulu spotlight black stories with film collections,” AJC.com, June 11, 2020, https://www.ajc.com/entertainment/netflix-amazon-and-hulu-spotlight-black-stories-with-film-collections/vMxIsfPV3ksp7x2W7AtlQM/.
44.John Mossman, “Abdul-Rauf Suspended Over National Anthem,” Associated Press, March 13, 1996, https://apnews.com/article/0a244b7bf3d7c3882229d7f0e84587d6.
45.Tim Bontemps, “Michael Jordan stands firm on ‘Republicans buy sneakers, too’ quote, says it was made in jest,” ESPN.com, May 4, 2020, https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29130478/michael-jordan-stands-firm-republicans-buy-sneakers-too-quote-says-was-made-jest.
46.Clay Travis, Republicans Wear Sneakers, Too (New York: HarperCollins, 2018), 41–49.
47.Ibid., 55.
48.“Pro Football Is Still America’s Favorite Sport,” TheHarrisPoll.com, January 26, 2016, https://theharrispoll.com/new-york-n-y-this-is-a-conflicting-time-for-football-fans-on-the-one-hand-with-the-big-game-50-no-less-fast-approaching-its-a-time-of-excitement-especial/.
49.“Average daily time spent watching TV per capita in the United States in 2009 and 2019, by ethnicity,” Statista.com, https://www.statista.com/statistics/411806/average-daily-time-watching-tv-us-ethnicity/.
50.Kerwin Kofi Charles, Erik Hurst, and Nikolai Roussanov, “Conspicuous Consumption and Race,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 124, no. 2 (2009): 425–67, https://repository.upenn.edu/fnce_papers/413/.
51.“St. Louis police officers angered by Rams’ ‘hands up, don’t shoot’ pose,” SI.com, November 30, 2014, https://www.si.com/nfl/2014/11/30/st-louis-rams-ferguson-protests.
52.“NFL won’t discipline Rams players for ‘hands up, don’t shoot’ gesture,” SI.com, December 1, 2014, https://www.si.com/nfl/2014/12/01/nfl-discipline-st-louis-rams-players-hands-dont-shoot.
53.“NFL denies Cowboys’ request to wear decal honoring fallen Dallas officers,” Foxnews.com, August 12, 2016, https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nfl-denies-cowboys-request-to-wear-decal-honoring-fallen-dallas-officers.
54.David K. Li, “Colin Kaepernick reveals the specific police shooting that led him to kneel,” NBCNews.com, August 20, 2019, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/colin-kaepernick-reveals-specific-police-shooting-led-him-kneel-n1044306.
55.Christopher Ingraham, “What Colin Kaepernick means for America’s racial gap in patriotism,” WashingtonPost.com, September 23, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/09/23/what-colin-kaepernick-means-for-americas-racial-gap-in-patriotism/.
56.Jenna West, “Colin Kaepernick Returns to ‘Madden’ for First Time Since 2016,” SI.com, September 8, 2020, https://www.si.com/nfl/2020/09/08/colin-kaepernick-returns-madden-nfl-ea-sports-2020.
57.Darren Rovell, “NFL television ratings down 9.7 percent during 2017 regular season,” ESPN.com, January 4, 2018, https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/21960086/nfl-television-ratings-97-percent-2017-regular-season.
58.Ben Shapiro, “ESPN Admits They Mistreat Conservatives, and It’s Killing Their Ratings,” DailyWire.com, November 17, 2016, https://www.dailywire.com/news/espn-admits-they-mistreat-conservatives-and-its-ben-shapiro.
59.Ben Strauss, “As ESPN tries to stick to sports, President Jimmy Pitaro must define what that means,” WashingtonPost.com, July 26, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/07/26/jimmy-pitaro-espn-president-politics/.
60.Nikole Tower, “In an ethnic breakdown of sports, NBA takes lead for most diverse,” GlobalSportMatters.com, December 12, 2018, https://globalsportmatters.com/culture/2018/12/12/in-an-ethnic-breakdown-of-sports-nba-takes-lead-for-most-diverse/.
61.Tom Huddleston, “These are the highest paid players in the NBA right now,” CNBC.com, October 22, 2019, https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nfl-denies-cowboys-request-to-wear-decal-honoring-fallen-dallas-officers.
62.The Undefeated, “Social Justice Messages Each Player Is Wearing on His Jersey,” TheUndefeated.com, July 31, 2020, https://theundefeated.com/features/social-justice-messages-each-nba-player-is-wearing-on-his-jersey/.
63.Dan Wolken, “Opinion: LeBron James undermines values he’s espoused in most disgraceful moment of career,” USAToday.com, October 15, 2019, https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/dan-wolken/2019/10/14/lebron-james-daryl-morey-china-hong-kong-tweet/3982436002/.
64.Paul P. Murphy, “Baseball is making Black Lives Matter on Opening Day,” CNN.com, July 24, 2020, https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/23/us/opening-day-baseball-mlb-black-lives-matter-trnd/index.html.
65.Associated Press, “Baltimore Ravens’ Matthew Judon blasts NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s ‘Black Lives Matter’ speech,” USAToday.com, June 15, 2020, https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/ravens/2020/06/15/roger-goodells-black-lives-matter-speech-blasted-matthew-judon/3196057001/.
66.Scott Polacek, “NFL Plans
to Include Social Justice Messages in End Zone Borders for Week 1,” BleacherReport.com, July 27, 2020, https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2901950-nfl-plans-to-include-social-justice-messages-in-end-zone-borders-for-week-1.
67.Rick Porter, “NFL Ratings Slip in 2020, Remain Dominant on Broadcast,” HollywoodReporter.com, January 6, 2021, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/nfl-ratings-slip-in-2020-remain-dominant-on-broadcast#:~:text=The%20league%20drops%20about%2010,draw%20on%20ad%2Dsupported%20television.
68.“NBA Ratings Decline Points to Broader Trouble in TV Watching,” Bloomberg.com, October 13, 2020, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-13/nba-ratings-decline-points-to-broader-trouble-in-tv-watching.
69.Chris Haney, “TV Ratings: MLB 2020 World Series Least-Watched of All-Time,” Outsider.com, October 29, 2020, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-13/nba-ratings-decline-points-to-broader-trouble-in-tv-watching.
CHAPTER 7: THE FAKE NEWS
1.Richard Read, “Attorney for Minneapolis police officer says he’ll argue George Floyd died of an overdose and a heart condition,” LATimes.com, August 20, 2020, https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-08-20/george-floyd-derek-chauvin-defense.
2.“988 people have been shot and killed by police in the past year,” WashingtonPost.com, Updated January 26, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5.
3.“Groups March into Beverly Hills, Loot Stores on Rodeo Drive,” CBSLocal.com, May 30, 2020, https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/05/30/rodeo-drive-protest-looting-george-floyd/.
4.Jonathan Lloyd, “Dozens of Businesses Damaged at Flashpoint of Violence in the Fairfax District,” NBCLosAngeles.com, May 31, 2020, https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/fairfax-district-melrose-damaged-looting-grove-fire-natioal-guard-lapd/2371497/.
5.Alejandra Reyes-Velarde, Brittny Mejia, Joseph Serna, Ruben Vives, Melissa Etehad, Matthew Ormseth, and Hailey Branson-Potts, “Looting hits Long Beach, Santa Monica as countywide curfew goes into effect,” LATimes.com, May 31, 2020, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-31/looting-vandalism-leaves-downtown-l-a-stunned.
6.“NYC Protests Turn Violent,” NYTimes.com, May 31, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/nyregion/nyc-protests-george-floyd.html.
7.Isaac Stanley-Becker, Colby Itkowitz, and Meryl Kornfield, “Protests mount and violence flares in cities across US, putting the nation on edge,” WashingtonPost.com, May 30, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/protests-gain-force-across-us/2020/05/30/fccf57ea-a2a8-11ea-81bb-c2f70f01034b_story.html.
8.Tim Hains, “MSNBC’s Ali Velshi Downplays Riot in Front of Burning Building: ‘Mostly a Protest,’ ‘Not Generally Speaking Unruly,” RealClearPolitics.com, May 28, 2020, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/05/28/msnbcs_ali_velshi_downplays_riot_in_front_of_burning_building_mostly_a_protest_not_generally_speaking_unruly.html.
9.Joe Concha, “CNN ridiculed for ‘Fiery but Mostly Peaceful’ caption with video of burning building in Kenosha,” TheHill.com, August 27, 2020, https://thehill.com/homenews/media/513902-cnn-ridiculed-for-fiery-but-mostly-peaceful-caption-with-video-of-burning.
10.“Costliest US civil disorders,” Axios.com, https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a455-4067-b06a-66f9db4cea9c.html.
11.Ariel Zilber, “REVEALED: Widespread vandalism and looting during BLM protests will cost insurance $2 billion after violence erupted in 140 cities in the wake of George Floyd’s death,” DailyMail.co.uk, September 16, 2020, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8740609/Rioting-140-cities-George-Floyds-death-cost-insurance-industry-2-BILLION.html.
12.Lois Beckett, “At least 25 Americans were killed during protests and political unrest in 2020,” TheGuardian.com, October 31, 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/31/americans-killed-protests-political-unrest-acled.
13.Ebony Bowden, “More than 700 officers injured in George Floyd protests across US,” NYPost.com, June 8, 2020, https://nypost.com/2020/06/08/more-than-700-officers-injured-in-george-floyd-protests-across-us/.
14.https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1267877443911778306.
15.Virginia Allen, “New York Times Mum on ‘1619 Project’ Creator Calling ‘1619 Riots’ Moniker an ‘Honor,’” DailySignal.com, June 22, 2020, https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/06/22/new-york-times-mum-on-1619-project-creator-calling-1619-riots-moniker-an-honor/.
16.https://twitter.com/theMRC/status/1267818603807567872.
17.“Chris Cuomo demands to know where it says protests must be ‘peaceful.’ Then he gets a lesson on the Constitution,” TheBlaze.com, June 3, 2020, https://www.theblaze.com/news/chris-cuomo-protests-peaceful-constitution.
18.Andrew Kerr, “Here Are 31 Times the Media Justified or Explained Away Rioting and Looting After George Floyd’s Death,” DailySignal.com, September 4, 2020, https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/09/04/here-are-31-times-the-media-justified-or-explained-away-rioting-and-looting-after-george-floyds-death/.
19.Tonya Mosley, “Understand Protests as ‘Acts of Rebellion’ Instead of Riots, Marc Lamont Hill Says,” WBUR.org, June 2, 2020, https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/06/02/protests-acts-of-rebellion.
20.Heather Mac Donald, “Taking Stock of a Most Violent Year,” WSJ.com, January 24, 2021, https://www.wsj.com/articles/taking-stock-of-a-most-violent-year-11611525947.
21.Brian Flood, “CNN’s Don Lemon says anti-police violence of 2020 built on ‘facts’ so ‘you can’t compare’ to Capitol riot,” FoxNews.com, January 13, 2021, https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnns-don-lemon-2020-built-facts-riot.
22.Lindsey Ellefson, “Don Lemon on His Journalistic Approach: My ‘Lens’ Is ‘Not Necessarily a Bias,’ but ‘Experience,’” TheWrap.com, July 7, 2020, https://www.thewrap.com/don-lemon-on-his-journalistic-approach-my-lens-is-not-necessarily-a-bias-but-experience/.
23.Paul Bedard, “90% of media political donations to Biden, Sanders, AOC, Democrats: Report,” WashingtonExaminer.com, October 28, 2020, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/90-of-media-political-donations-to-biden-sanders-aoc-democrats-report.
24.Jack Shafer and Tucker Doherty, “The Media Bubble Is Worse Than You Think,” Politico.com, May/June 2017, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/25/media-bubble-real-journalism-jobs-east-coast-215048.
25.Keith Griffith, “American trust in the mainstream media hits an all-time low with just 18% of Republicans saying they believe journalists after the 2020 election,” DailyMail.co.uk, January 21, 2021, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9173711/American-trust-media-hits-time-low.html.
26.“James Callendar,” Monticello.org, https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/james-callender.
27.Amy Solomon Whitehead, “The Unattainable Ideal: Walter Lippmann and the Limits of the Press and and Public Opinion,” LSU master’s thesis, LSU.edu, 2015, https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3281&context=gradschool_theses.
28.Walter Lippmann, Liberty and the News (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Howe, 1920), 88–89.
29.Ravi Somaiya and Ashley Southall, “Arrested in Ferguson Last Year, 2 Reporters Are Charged,” NYTimes.com, August 11, 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/us/arrested-in-ferguson-2014-washington-post-reporter-wesley-lowery-is-charged.html?_r=0.
30.Wesley Lowery, They Can’t Kill Us All (New York: Hachette Book Group, 2016), 37.
31.Maxwell Tani, “Washington Post Threatened Another Star Reporter Over His Tweets,” DailyBeast.com, February 3, 2020, https://www.thedailybeast.com/washington-post-threatened-another-star-reporter-wesley-lowery-over-his-tweets.
32.Ben Smith, “Inside the Revolts Erupting in America’s Big Newsrooms,” NYTimes.com, June 7, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/business/media/new-york-times-washington-post-protests.html.
33.Oliver Darcy, “New York Times staffers revolt over publication of Tom Cotton op-ed,” CNN.com, June 4, 2020, https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/media/new-york-times-tom-cotton-op-ed/index.
html.
34.Marc Tracy, “James Bennet Resigns as New York Times Opinion Editor,” NYTimes.com, June 7, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/business/media/james-bennet-resigns-nytimes-op-ed.html.
35.Michael M. Grynbaum, “The Atlantic Cuts Ties with Conservative Writer Kevin Williamson,” NYTimes.com, April 5, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/business/media/kevin-williamson-atlantic.html.
36.Kyle Smith, “Politico Staff in Uproar over Ben Shapiro Appearance,” NationalReview.com, January 14, 2021, https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/politico-staff-in-uproar-over-ben-shapiro-appearance/.
37.https://twitter.com/ErikWemple/status/1349900614470393864.
38.Maxwell Tani, “100+ Politico Staffers Send Letter to Publisher Railing Against Publishing Ben Shapiro,” TheDailyBeast.com, January 25, 2021, https://www.thedailybeast.com/more-than-100-politico-staffers-send-letter-to-ceo-railing-against-publishing-ben-shapiro.
39.https://twitter.com/ErikWemple/status/1349804843439894532.
40.Karen Attiah, “The media had a role to play in the rise of Trump. It’s time to hold ourselves accountable,” WashingtonPost.com, January 20, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/20/media-had-role-play-rise-trump-its-time-hold-ourselves-accountable/.
41.Marc Tracy, “Top Editor of Philadelphia Inquirer Resigns After ‘Buildings Matter’ Headline,” NYTimes.com, June 6, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/business/media/editor-philadephia-inquirer-resigns.html.
42.Bari Weiss, “Resignation Letter,” BariWeiss.com, July 14, 2020, https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter.
43.Victoria Bynum, James M. McPherson, James Oakes, Sean Wilentz, and Gordon S. Wood, “RE: The 1619 Project,” New York Times Magazine, December 29, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/magazine/we-respond-to-the-historians-who-critiqued-the-1619-project.html.
44.K. C. Johnson, “History Without Truth,” City-Journal.org, December 31, 2019, https://www.city-journal.org/1619-project-history-without-truth.
45.Leslie M. Harris, “I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me,” Politico.com, March 6, 2020, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/06/1619-project-new-york-times-mistake-122248.
