Dennis Prager Show - The Mainstream Media Is Untrustworthy
Aired: 2024-02-15
Duration: 04:18


=== Destruction Of Media Trust (04:18) ===

[00:00:00]  We're having an author on later.
[00:00:02]  He's a big thinker.
[00:00:05]  Full-time work and the meaning of life.
[00:00:07]  It's a very interesting subject because there's so many arenas of meaning in life.
[00:00:13]  And if I remember to tell him, I can't imagine more meaningful.
[00:00:20]  I can imagine equally meaningful, but I can't imagine more meaningful work than...
[00:00:26]  Having the opportunity to speak with so many people, both in terms of interviews and in terms of callers.
[00:00:33]  Anyway, just reflections on my work.
[00:00:39]  I need to read to you something of importance.
[00:00:46]  If I can find it, then that will be a very big help.
[00:00:51]  It was written by, what is Ackman's first name?
[00:00:55]  Bill Ackman.
[00:00:57]  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.
[00:01:11]  And a big article was written about him in the Washington Post.
[00:01:18]  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.
[00:01:31]  The Washington Post is a propaganda sheet, and that is what this lifelong Democrat, not me, Ackman, has come to understand.
[00:01:43]  Its commitment to truth is nil.
[00:01:49]  I now have concluded I think it's worse than the New York Times.
[00:01:53]  Do you think it's a tie?
[00:01:55]  It depends on the week?
[00:01:58]  That's interesting.
[00:01:59]  Okay, fair enough.
[00:02:02]  So listen to what he wrote.
[00:02:03]  He had a very long interview.
[00:02:06]  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.
[00:02:16]  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.
[00:02:25]  I am guilty of this sin.
[00:02:27]  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.
[00:02:42]  I am sadly repeatedly reminded to mistrust what I read in the media.
[00:02:47]  This is a lifelong liberal Democrat.
[00:02:49]  I keep repeating that.
[00:02:52]  And I am not alone.
[00:02:54]  Destruction of confidence in our media is contributing to societal breakdown.
[00:03:00]  The irony is the Washington Post has a motto which it adopted about, I don't know, 10 years ago?
[00:03:06]  Maximum.
[00:03:06]  No, it just started when Trump became president.
[00:03:10]  Oh, it started when Trump became president, not when Bezos bought it?
[00:03:13]  No.
[00:03:14]  Oh, how interesting.
[00:03:16]  Democracy dies in darkness.
[00:03:19]  This pompous motto, in other words, we are the light keeping democracy alive.
[00:03:25]  That is the Washington Post self-image.
[00:03:32]  But the destruction of confidence in our media is contributing to societal breakdown.
[00:03:40]  And that is a very unfortunate state of affairs.
[00:03:42]  During the past few weeks, I spent several hours cooperating with a Washington Post story.
[00:03:49]  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.
[00:04:10]  And you'll get a perfect example of the same thing.
[00:04:13]  We recorded what happened, and then we played for you what NBC did.