In the Los Angeles Times, Govindini Murty—a co-founder of the Liberty Film Festival—makes a good point:

Hollywood’s box office has hit the skids, and the entertainment media are in overdrive trying to explain why. The most obvious explanation for box office malaise is consistently overlooked: Hollywood’s ruling liberal elites keep going out of their way to offend half their audience.

Meanwhile, Bridget Johnson notes in The Wall Street Journal:

Last year, in an OpinionJournal column about the murder of Theo van Gogh at the hands of an Islamic extremist, I mentioned how the 2002 film version of Tom Clancy’s “The Sum of All Fears” transformed the Palestinian terrorist characters into Euro neo-Nazis. The day my piece appeared, I received an anonymous e-mail from someone who claimed to be “close to the decision” to alter the adaptation, defending the pre-9/11 changes as trying “to avoid a tired cliché.”

Hollywood actually avoided a tired cliché? Well, I guess there’s a first time for everything...