U.S.—Our nation’s intrepid journalists had been warning the country
about the threat of the Joker movie and how it could encourage violence
among disaffected white people and incels -- the new greatest threat to
mankind. And as reporters prepared for an onslaught of violence as Joker
premiered over the weekend, they were horrified by what happened:
absolutely no violence or anything worth reporting on whatsoever.
“We found one incident of a guy cheering too loudly at the fictional
violence,” said CNN reporter Terrance Shelton, “but that was it. There
was nothing. Absolutely nothing we can glom onto and spin into a hot
take that reinforces The Narrative. I’m shaken to my core.”
Journalists
have already been shaken by many attacks on the press. Much of this has
come from President Trump, but a lot also from reality, which has
specifically gone after many of their hyped predictions and disasters.
“We had expert opinions saying that the Joker movie was just adding fuel
to the fire with all that’s going on,” said New York Times writer Glenn
Peterson. “And once again, reality has defied experts. That’s not
right.”
Now that opinion writers' fears have been disproven, the
pundits whose predictions were completely wrong and who have
demonstrated they have no grasp of how reality actually works are
expecting the harshest punishment for such a journalistic failure:
absolutely nothing.
