During one scene in the 1976 King Kong remake, oil company executive Fred Wilson (played by actor Charles Grodin) is carting the creature away from his exotic home and has an exchange about the impact of it all with the heroine, Dwan (Jessica Lange), and stowaway paleontologist Jack Prescott (Jeff Bridges). The trio could have been speaking to the relationship between former President Donald Trump and the corporate media. Fred Wilson: It’s not “someone.” It’s an animal, a beast who tried to rape you! Dwan: That’s not true. He risked his life to save me. Fred Wilson: He tried to rape you honey. And before you cry a lot, you should ask the natives on that island what they thought of losing Kong. Jack Prescott: Actually, they’ll miss him a lot. Fred Wilson: Like leprosy. Jack Prescott: No, you’re dead wrong. He was the terror, the mystery of their lives, and the magic. A year from now that will be an island full of burnt-out drunks. When we took Kong, we kidnapped their god. Among the most riveting revelations from the so-called “Twitter Files” was the discovery that the social media firm’s Orwellian content moderators actively tried to deamplify the
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The Twitter Files, Trump, and the Corporate Media's King Kong Problem
