Feb. 15, 2024 - Dennis Prager Show
04:18
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| We're having an author on later. | |
| He's a big thinker. | |
| Full-time work and the meaning of life. | |
| It's a very interesting subject because there's so many arenas of meaning in life. | |
| And if I remember to tell him, I can't imagine more meaningful. | |
| I can imagine equally meaningful, but I can't imagine more meaningful work than... | |
| Having the opportunity to speak with so many people, both in terms of interviews and in terms of callers. | |
| Anyway, just reflections on my work. | |
| I need to read to you something of importance. | |
| If I can find it, then that will be a very big help. | |
| It was written by, what is Ackman's first name? | |
| Bill Ackman. | |
| Bill Ackman is a man who has funded Harvard for years, a great amount of money, foolishly in my opinion, perhaps even in his opinion now. | |
| And a big article was written about him in the Washington Post. | |
| So he wrote, to his credit, a Long description of how much the Washington Post distorted him as a person and his words in the interview. | |
| The Washington Post is a propaganda sheet, and that is what this lifelong Democrat, not me, Ackman, has come to understand. | |
| Its commitment to truth is nil. | |
| I now have concluded I think it's worse than the New York Times. | |
| Do you think it's a tie? | |
| It depends on the week? | |
| That's interesting. | |
| Okay, fair enough. | |
| So listen to what he wrote. | |
| He had a very long interview. | |
| He begins, I am sure all of us have had the experience of reading a story about a subject you know well and finding it replete with inaccuracies and falsehoods. | |
| One then turns the page and reads an article about a subject one knows less well and makes the mistake of believing that this other story is accurate. | |
| I am guilty of this sin. | |
| This again is the wealthy gentleman who gave a lot of money to Harvard and then stopped when he saw the moral depths to which Harvard has sunk. | |
| I am sadly repeatedly reminded to mistrust what I read in the media. | |
| This is a lifelong liberal Democrat. | |
| I keep repeating that. | |
| And I am not alone. | |
| Destruction of confidence in our media is contributing to societal breakdown. | |
| The irony is the Washington Post has a motto which it adopted about, I don't know, 10 years ago? | |
| Maximum. | |
| No, it just started when Trump became president. | |
| Oh, it started when Trump became president, not when Bezos bought it? | |
| No. | |
| Oh, how interesting. | |
| Democracy dies in darkness. | |
| This pompous motto, in other words, we are the light keeping democracy alive. | |
| That is the Washington Post self-image. | |
| But the destruction of confidence in our media is contributing to societal breakdown. | |
| And that is a very unfortunate state of affairs. | |
| During the past few weeks, I spent several hours cooperating with a Washington Post story. | |
| Incidentally, my dear, dear listeners, you should go to PragerU and watch the CEO, Marissa Streit, and I examine, explain the distortions of NBC News when they came to PragerU. | |
| And you'll get a perfect example of the same thing. | |
| We recorded what happened, and then we played for you what NBC did. |
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