Another piece of brilliance by Sowell...
Why doesn’t the main stream media consult HIM when they need “the black perspective” instead of lunatics like Sharpton and Jackson
I hear you...The liberal MSM evidently stick with race hustlers like Sharpton and Jackson because their antics sell more than the sound wisdom of Dr. Sowell. It’s for sure the entitlement crowd don’t want to hear from him, they ignore him.
My reasoning has always been that the MSM, along with the ruling elite, are racists. They also want white middle-class Americans to mistakenly assume that all blacks are dishonest like Sharpton and Jackson, so for 50 years they have kept the articulate conservative blacks off the air.
Why doesn’t the main stream media consult HIM when they need “the black perspective” instead of lunatics like Sharpton and Jackson
From Theodore Roosevelt's 1910 speech at the Sorbonne:It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds. . . and that, IMHO, defines conservatism vs “liberalism.”A journalist is a talker, not a doer, and the easiest way to make talk seem important is to criticize the people and institutions upon whom the public depends. That places a propaganda wind at the back of the “leaders” of whom Sowell complains. The natural tendency of the journalist to second guess is amplified by the fact that journalists all “meet together,” virtually via the medium of the wire services - and Adam Smith tells us what to expect of that:
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (Book I, Ch 10)The net effect is, as my tagline puts it,“Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.
It makes me laugh to hear about comparing Sharpton to Sowell.
One is a whacko vitriolic puffed-up hack while the other is highly educated and personally knowledgeable in so many things yet quiet and unassuming.