Staff Reports
The once-mighty Golden Globes stumbled again this month, with the telecast drawing roughly 8.7 million viewers — a noticeable drop from last year and another data point showing the awards show bleeding audience share. Americans are voting with their remotes, and the dwindling numbers should be a wake-up call to networks that keep amplifying Hollywood’s political soapbox instead of celebrating artistry.
This decline isn’t an accident; it’s the predictable result of a culture industry that spent years alienating half the country with preachy lectures and partisan virtue signaling. The Globes are part of a longer trend: ratings for these trophy shows are down dramatically over the last half-decade as viewers turn off when politics overwhelms entertainment. The math is simple and unforgiving — viewers will not be held hostage to sanctimony.
Meanwhile, many in Hollywood have decided to turn award season into an amplifier for left-wing outrage over federal immigration enforcement, with stars publicly sobbing and staging moral grandstanding about ICE operations. Those emotional displays — like the widely seen clip of Selena Gomez in tears over ICE actions — played well on late-night feeds but badly with everyday Americans who want secure borders and law enforcement that protects communities.
The industry’s outrage machine even exploded into bizarre culture wars when the White House and activists began repurposing celebrity imagery and music into political messaging about deportations, prompting angry pushback from some artists and gleeful mockery from opponents. Instead of recognizing that the spectacle was turning off viewers, Hollywood doubled down, convinced that moral scolding would bring audiences back — a strategy that keeps failing.
More celebrities piled on, crying foul over enforcement actions and casting themselves as defenders of immigrant families, while ignoring the rule of law and the safety of citizens who demand accountability. The tearful appeals from prominent figures only underscored how out of touch coastal elites are with the concerns of working Americans who pay taxes, obey laws, and want orderly immigration policy.
This is a moment of truth for networks and award-show producers: keep turning broadcasts into political spectacles and the audience will keep shrinking. Patriots and hardworking Americans deserve entertainment that respects their values and doesn’t lecture them for wanting secure borders and common-sense enforcement; if Hollywood can’t figure that out, it should stop pretending its ratings are anyone’s moral compass.
