Hollywood in Toto Reports: It’s a classic science fiction trope, one playing out in real time. A scientist creates a frightening new life form and, in the third act, the monster turns on its creator. The monster in this analogy? Cancel Culture and its woke tendrils.

The scientist? Mainstream news reporters who cheered on the woke revolution, ignoring conservatives who warned of its pernicious impact on the arts. One conservative even wrote a book on the subject. Have reporters, who directly fueled Cancel Culture over the past few years, realized the error of their ways? Perhaps.

It started late last year at The New York Times and The Atlantic, two reliably liberal outlets. Each covered the Cancel Culture attack on “Jihad Rehab,” a documentary that debuted at last year’s Sundance Film Festival.



“Jihad Rehab,” directed by white filmmaker Meg Smaker, followed a group of Islamic militants going through Saudi Arabia’s rehabilitation center. The film criticized America’s War on Terror policies and offered sympathy to so-called enemy combatants. It refused to sugar-coat their crimes, though.