PBS’s arts and culture reporter Jeffrey Brown performed the trick of making the Washington Post’s liberal movie critic Ann Hornaday sound objective and reasonable, on Wednesday evening’s edition of the NewsHour, in a segment on the Oscar nominations that appeared online under the heading, “Oscar nominations spark controversy with snubs of Barbie’s Margot Robbie, Greta Gerwig.”

Apparently 8 Oscars nominations for “Barbie” just aren’t enough to assuage the pink-wearing posse who attended the movie as a religious experience akin to a Taylor Swift concert and their outrage has filtered into the media.

Host Geoff Bennett introduced Brown’s taped interview with Hornaday.

Geoff Bennett: When the Academy Award nominations were announced yesterday, among the films on the list for best picture was the year’s biggest-grossing movie, “Barbie.” But many were surprised the nominations for Best Director did not include the film’s director, Greta Gerwig. Jeffrey Brown has a look for our arts and culture series, Canvas…

[Lemme ‘splain – “You win some, you lose some.” “BUT BARBIE MADE SO MUCH MONEY!!!” Yeah, well so did ‘Marverick’ – even MORE than ‘Barbie’ – and Tom Cruise can’t talk about his nomination, because why? HE DIDN’T GET ONE. So quit being big whiny babies. ~ Beege]