Bombshell is going to win movie industry awards. It would be more fitting if it won a Pulitzer. The performances were exceptional, and the story had all the ingredients of a mystery thriller.

My eyes (and sometimes my mouth) were wide open as I watched Charlize Theron act herself into an Oscar nod. She played Megyn Kelly, star anchor who faced the top-down machinery of power, misogyny, and fear at Fox News—which informs the culture of many large companies and which dovetails with the male, tyrannical culture of the Trump administration.

The movie is the real bombshell; it explodes the veneer and exposes the ruthlessness of power and influence inside the Western world’s most powerful media empire (and as the movie reveals, a powerful propaganda engine). I saw a documentary about Fox many years ago called “Out-Foxxed—Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism”. That film and the legacy of falsehood in media since are why future leaders must rescue Truth in media everywhere. We had the Fairness Doctrine thirty years ago and it needs to be resurrected.

WRH