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Discussing Saturday’s arrest of Jonathan Majors, “CNN This Morning” had Segun Oduolowu of the Boston Globe join Monday’s program to offer his perspective on the situation – and how “the court of public opinion” will shape it, for better or worse.

“This court of public opinion, they don’t play by any rules,” Oduolowu warned. “Stay off Twitter, stay of Instagram, because what you’re going to get is conjecture, and we in the news business, we deal with facts.”

In the hours since news of Majors’ arrest broke, the contributor said, one can go online and see as many negative stories about the actor’s character as they do positive ones. Oduolowu is concerned that those “knee-jerk” reactions are just contributing to the noise, when what everyone should be after is the truth.

“I am asking and hoping that we will be patient. Let all of the facts come in,...

Earlier this year, Brett Ratner declared that “the worst thing we have in today’s movie culture is Rotten Tomatoes,” an argument that seemed petulant and self-serving even before we learned that one of the worst things we have in today’s movie culture is actually Brett Ratner. “I have such respect and admiration for film criticism,” continued the director of such critically-maligned efforts as “X-Men 3,” before arriving at a rather baffling example. “Now it’s about a number… And that’s sad, because the Rotten Tomatoes score was so low on ‘Batman v Superman,’ I think it put a cloud over a movie that was incredibly successful.”

After correctly identifying the great tragedy of our time, Ratner ended his rant by lamenting that “Film criticism has disappeared.” Such noble words from the man whose company co-finances the films of D.C.’s expanded universe — if only the Justice League had room for another superhero!