The New York Times scares its readers about Dennis Prager and PragerU

American Thinker ^ | 01/05/2020 | Andrea Widburg

[SeekAndFind]

The New York Times’ Nellie Bowles has discovered that PragerU is making inroads with teenagers and she’s not happy. She's written a long article, a combination of honest facts and oozing snideness, that reveals her disdain for and fear of conservative values.

Dennis Prager matters because he is persuasive. In the early 2000s, as I was going through the process of disengaging from a Democrat party I realized bore no relationship to my values, he helped me create a framework for my new worldview. I’ve also loved his PragerU videos. While open about their biases, they are temperate in tone and carefully objective in their facts. The videos, which rely on experts in whatever field is at issue, also present complex ideas in ways that are simple without being dumbed down.

Here are some good things about Bowles’ "Right-Wing Views for Generation Z, Five Minutes at a Time." She factually describes Dennis Prager’s growing empire, from the videos (over a billion viewed), to the outreach on college campuses, to a new channel for Hispanics. She states correctly that today’s teens, having been weaned on Leftist ideology, are becoming “conservative curious” (my phrase, not hers). She accurately notes that Prager’s goal is to spread Judeo-Christian values for societal betterment.

After visiting Prager’s headquarters, at which roughly 50 people (average age 30-ish) work, Bowles honestly quotes Craig Strazzeri, the Chief Marketing Officer, when he explains the myriad empty offices: “A lot of people stayed home because they were scared of being identified as working for Prager.” Bowles, though, seems not to realize that this is a sad commentary on today’s progressives.

But not all is good. One can imagine that, if PragerU were progressive, Bowles would have written in glowing terms, with riffs about Prager’s warmth, charisma, and erudition;

[devane617]

PragerU is cool.

[Fungi]

“All the news that’s fit to print?” No, maybe “all the news that fits our agenda,” or “we never let the truth get in the way of our agenda.” The NY Slime and Sludge apparatchiks are not journalists, they are propagandists, they know it but refuse to admit it.

[Vaduz]

A lot of people stayed home because they were scared of being identified as working for Prager.

Guess she hasn’t got up to speed that many corporations have people work from home OH Wait she works at a news paper behind the times is par for them.

[mumblypeg]

Here’s one of my favorites from PragerU—

The difference between leftists and liberals, and why the terms are NOT interchangeable:

https://www.prageru.com/video/left-or-liberal/

Oh, and btw, when you click to watch it, you’ll likely get a link to the smear piece in the OP above, telling you why you shouldn’t look at PragerU vids! LOL!
YouTube (owned by Google) is shameless!

[1956tbyrd]

I started to read this article in the Denver Post. I looked at the byline and it was NY Times. Nothing more than leftist hit piece.

[BatGuano]

I have not read the NYT since I graduated from College in 1962.
The Times was required reading for an International Politics course. It was glaringly biased then. and, evidently, is worse now.
Pathetic, Grey, biased old lady.

[MarkL]

My greatest hope is that Dennis can convince more Jews that Judeo-Christian values are actually a good thing.

Hopefully it will help some leftists who happen to be Jewish rethink their views and politics.

Mark

[MarkL]

As I recall, YouTube by Google once blocked a video on The Ten Commandments as offensive.

Mark

[Balding_Eagle]

The NYT article is a pretty even handed review of Prager U.

[American in Israel]

When the youth finally figure they are being played as tools the backlash will be awsome against the Democrats.

[polymuser]

“...you’ll likely get a link to the smear piece in the OP above...”

I did. So, GooTube headers conservative vids with a link to an opposing MSM hit piece now?!

Well, I’m certainly absolutely sure they header leftist vids with a link to an opposing conservative hit piece, too. Right?

Right?

[Last Dakotan]

On a mid-day drive recently, I flipped the radio channels and started listening to a Minnesota Public Radio call-in talk show.

Interestingly, the host had some conservative who was calmly and rationally explaining the conservative views on variuos issues.

The caller reaction was swift and severe. "How dare MPR have on discredited conservatives", and "I pay my support money not to have to listen to these lies."

I don't listen much, but you'll never hear conservatives on MPR.

[mumblypeg]

LOL.
Nope. That would NOT help them at all!

FWIW, I’m hearing from a LOT of CA **liberals** who realize they’d been sucked into the **leftist** agenda for years, against their own best interests. Just living in CA is waking them up to reality.

[tbw2]

Never mind the literal experts he has had on like Alan Dershowitz, Bjorn Lomberg and others.

[ml/nj]

I didn't write this:

Re Prager. I seem to recall how in the mid nineties when (recently retired) talk show host Bob Grant ran afoul of the PC crowd, Prager turned on him. This despite the fact that Grant was very friendly toward him and had him on his program a number of times. Ever since, I’ve always been wary of Prager, even when he appears to be saying the right things.

but I might have.

My recollection is that Prager came to NYC for a talk show tryout that failed. During the week or so that Prager was on, Grant had nice things to say about him. And that it wasn't long after that Prager was denouncing Grant as a racist. (I found the above quote by Googling Prager "Bob Grant" and hunting around.)

ML/NJ