CHRISTIAN TOTO: Bret Easton Ellis Pins ‘Trump Effect’ on Media’s ‘Joker’ Attacks.

Reporters warned for weeks that “Joker” would inspire real-world violence, coaxing an army of incels to rise up in fury. Media outlets puffed up microscopic incidents at movie screenings after that narrative collapsed.

Ellis sees through their charade.

“It’s a kind of puffed-up moral superiority and a shocking hypocrisy,” Ellis said about the media’s “Joker” coverage. He compared it to the way reporters share news about all things President Trump.

It’s one sided, inaccurate and hyberbolic.

But it generates pageviews and pushes the preferred narrative, so facts and reason be damned.