Posted on 01/24/2017 10:36:12 PM PST by Simon Foxx
It was a brilliant inauguration, and the continued scrapping and strafing between the administration and the bedraggled, sodden mass of the press continues the execution of a new demarcation of power in the federal government that will prove benign. This week’s issues themselves are not important; what is at issue is a contest between the attitudes of the press and the tactics of the administration...
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A most excellent read. I shall refer to this often. Thank you for posting. :)
Well worth the time to read it. It should have been posted during the day when more would encounter it.
Agreed, first well written summary of Trump and the populist movement by any media types.
I will be looking up whatever Mr Black has written and if it is of the same quality as this piece, will add him to W. Williams, M. Steyn and D.Greenfield on my best current writers list to read.
Terrific article. Black on all cylinders.
Just click his name in the header of the linked article, it goes to an archive of previous articles.
If anyone here cries that Trump should leave the media alone, they must understand that the media has only a 15% approval rating. Given he is at between 45% to 55% approval, it’s a no-brainer for him to atrack the most despised industry in the country. He wins automatically just by making the attack.
Baron Black of Crossharbour (Conrad Black) is always worth a read. He was once a “press baron” — he started Canada’s National Post newspaper. He had quite an extensive international media empire. For that, he was made an actual Baron, by the Queen. Then there were a bunch of (likely bogus) charges, and he lost his empire (and freedom, for a few years). Look it up, it’s quite an interesting biography.
Black always writes like that — long sentences, words you need to look up, informative and logical. BTW, Black has written biographies of FDR and Nixon (amongst other things).
Written by Conrad Black, of whom Mark Steyn has nothing but good to say.
A great piece, but I disagree with this:
“So steeped in what Dr. Johnson called “the disingenuousness of years” is the Washington press, they still do not know what has happened.”
They know exactly what happened, and are determined to prevent a repeat. Internet control is a big issue to them because they know it means “people control” (see Red China, North Korea). They have already fired the opening salvoes of the 2018 mid-terms, and will fight tooth and nail (lying as brazenly as before) because this is how they “earn” a living. I knew they were doubling down when they have people like Brian Williams and Dan Rather speaking out about lies and deception...
I am convinced what many see as hurting Trump, the constant harping on the minutiae of the election and inauguration such as crowd size, illegal votes, etc are in fact deliberate and done with the intent to make the press look foolish for chasing the bait Trump dangles.
While the lib press chases these stories Trump is producing document after document each day rolling back the EO’s of Obama and moving his agenda forward. When he announces what he is/has accomplished such as moving on NAFTA, building the wall, meetings with high visibility business executives, restarting the pipe lines, etc, the public can easily see the difference between Trump, a man of real action and the infantile, vindictive and terribly butt sore liberal media.
As has been said before, Trump plays chess while the Left plays checkers.
Your post as Black might edit it.
Black's English is an ancient tapestry one can but admire.
It will include a Labor secretary who wants to decertify unions
An education secretary who wants to get rid of the teachers’ unions
An energy secretary who wants to maximize oil and gas production
An EPA director who wants to dismantle the EPA while continuing to reduce pollution of air and water
A commerce secretary who is an articulate free-enterprise billionaire
The restoration of the Pentagon to the hands of a general for the first time since George C. Marshall
A Treasury secretary who once worked in Wall Street and is a capitalist, but not just a Warren Buffett tax-planner.
Self-made billionaire financiers Steve Schwarzman and Carl Icahn will advise on business relations and on deregulation.
For Conrad Black, if you want to save the nation, you are an Archie Bunker.
I am glad it was posted at any time. Just happened to be up and decided to check in. I love this paragraph-
The press will not have rebuilt its credibility until it recognizes how terribly it has disserved the country from Vietnam and Watergate all the way to the Golden Shower. The Democrats, presumably, will get the hint and change course and recruit better candidates; both sides come to bat. The press is like Talleyrand’s description of the Bourbons returning to Paris in 1815 in the baggage train of Wellington’s army: “They have forgotten nothing and they have learned nothing.”
Just a note, half the people on your list are Canadians. I had to say it.
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