BOMBSHELL.

• Author: Slade, Stephanie

Reactions to Bombshell, a new movie about the sexual harassment lawsuit that brought down Fox News exec Roger Ailes, offer a rare opportunity to see both political correctness and patriotic correctness-the first term's right-wing mirror image--at work at the same time.

For many progressives, the film's sympathetic portrayal of former anchors Megyn Kelly and Gretchen Carlson--two outspoken Republicans--is necessarily at odds with the #MeToo movement's pieties. Many conservatives, meanwhile, appear to view as traitorous anything that casts aspersions on their cable news channel of choice. As a result, the film is likely to get less credit, overall, than it deserves on the merits.

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