Mo Ryan’s Biased Crusade Against Saturday Night Live

MEDIUM READERS:
BECAUSE I AM PITCHING A LOT AND WORKING ON LONG-FORM PROJECTS, IT IS HARD TO FIND THE TIME TO WRITE ARTICLES IN THIS SPACE. OVER AT PATREON, YOU CAN PERSONALLY SEE THE LONG-FORM BEHIND A PAYWALL. IN THE INTERIM, I FEEL OBLIGATED TO POINT OUT THAT THIS IS A PITCH OF SOMETHING I HAVE SENT TO MULTIPLE OUTLETS.

If you don’t see her eye-to-eye with her values, it’s hard to see Mo Ryan as anything but a muckraking journalist. Her crusades — fighting the patriarchy, holding those who don’t meet her standard for minority representation to the fire, and encouraging people to see the world along dichotomies of race, gender, and class — are highly evident in what she chooses to write about and how she frames it.

As someone in the media myself, I make it a point to miscorrect the widespread perceptions of journalism as some blanket tool of propoganda. Ryan deserves the benefit of this defense. Her work is appropriately sourced and she makes an effort to seek comment from both sides.

Ryan first came to my radar through an egregious bit of cherry-picking with an attack on Star Wars — a franchise with a female executive and very conscious choices to cast its latest slate of heroes to encompass every race and gender) — as not doing enough to be progressive (without making the case that Star Wars owes progressivism anything).

Mo Ryan’s latest book Burn it All Down could be interpreted might be seen as an attempt to cancel…