Two of the nation’s most powerful newspapers, the Washington Post and the New York Times, recently portrayed special presidential envoy Richard Grenell as the villain of the Kennedy Center story. The first outlet warned of a “politicized” arts institution under his watch. The second followed with a sprawling piece titled “The Kennedy Center Crackup,” painting Grenell as a Trump-aligned provocateur who had, in its words, “brought partisanship to a place meant for art.”