SUNSET BOULEVARD: Freaks Unleashed: Fired ‘Mainstream’ Journalists Prove They Never Belonged on Television.

It’s been a rough few years for deranged left-wing hacks masquerading as “mainstream” or even “relatively sane liberal” journalists. In an effort to recapture a modicum of respectability, failing media outlets such as CNN and MSNBC have sought to purge their ranks of mindless partisans who seem incapable of forming an original thought that doesn’t involve Donald Trump and the word “fascist.” Time will tell if cutting these freaks loose will be enough to save these floundering companies, but in the meantime, the fired journalists keep reminding us why they never deserved our respect.

In his 1999 retrospective of Billy Wilder’s classic 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, the late Roger Ebert wrote:

Norma [Desmond] of course is not a wrinkled crone. She is only 50 in the film, younger than stars such as Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve. There is a scene during Norma’s beauty makeover when a magnifying glass is held in front of her eyes, and we are startled by how smooth Swanson’s skin is. Swanson in real life was a health nut who fled from the sun, which no doubt protected her skin (she was 53 when she made the film), but the point in “Sunset Boulevard” is that she has aged not in the flesh but in the mind; she has become fixed at the moment of her greatness, and lives in the past.

Like the silent film stars displaced by the talkies of the 1930s, there will be many more journalists learning to code Substack, as the demise of traditional network and cable television continues to hove into view. In the meantime, be cautious when around the legacy media’s legacy consumers: