Alexandre Fedorovski
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Bret Stephens
Bret L. Stephens joined The New York Times as an Op-Ed columnist in April 2017. His column appears Thursday and Saturday.
Mr. Stephens came to The Times after a long career with The Wall Street Journal, where he was most recently deputy editorial page editor and, for 11 years, a foreign affairs columnist.
Before that, he was editor in chief of The Jerusalem Post. At The Post he oversaw the paper's news, editorial and digital operations and its international editions, and also wrote a weekly column. He has reported from around the world and interviewed scores of world leaders.
Mr. Stephens is the author of "America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder," released in November 2014. He is is the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions, including two honorary doctorates and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. He was raised in Mexico City and holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago and an MSc. from the London School of Economics. He and his wife, Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, a music critic for The Times, live with their three children in New York and Hamburg, Germany.
MY COMMENT:
When Mr.Trump slammed the media as ‘the true Enemy of the People’, I took this statement as political hyperbole. However, as it turned out, I was wrong.
American mainstream media, controlled by the special interest groups, is, as it turned out, a haven of under-educated mediocre people that compensate lack of academic knowledge with the frank сhutspah.
I made this conclusion after visiting the "Cocktails and Conversations: Evening with Bret Stephens", organized by the Metropolitan Republican Club of New York
Bret Stephens's pose spoke for itself: he leaned back in the arm-chair, with his leg up and answered questions, prepared by the mediator, with all his appearance emphasizing his own significance and exclusivity.
The journalist made a statement that the “Capital” of Marx, which shows the underside of a capitalist society based on the exploitation of man by man, “is outdated because“ life goes forward. ”
The journalist did not bother to substantiate his claim with examples.
This was his first logical and conceptual mistake.
Then he appealed to the audience saying that there must be something “eternal” and that is the American Constitution.
This was his second logical mistake
Everything else was a mixture of BS and cliche sets from the arsenal of ideological and psychological warfare against the American people, which we constantly come across in newspapers and hear on television.
I managed to address the Pulitzer Prize winner with a remark that, as I suspected, some people not only did not read Marx's Capital but do not know how many volumes this work consists of. I asked the prominent journalist WHY Marx's Capital is OUT OF DATE.
He REFUSED to answer the question.
Actually, this was a violation of academic ethics, because my academic title is above BA and MSc ... and it was a matter of the elementary ETHICS of the behavior of a lower-ranking person.
When all this profanity ended, I tried to invite the journalist to take part in the discussion at my Socrates International Discussion Club.
A lady with a mass of Stryker blocked my access to the journalist ...
And this despite the fact the journalist repeatedly mentioned "freedom of speech" and other "eternal" American freedoms.
I left the club premises and walked through the evening New York. There was a feeling of touching something nasty and dirty/ It was drizzling, streams of water flowed down the sides of the umbrella, washing away the accumulated dust. But in the soul a sense of abomination remained.
It was my first-lifetime experience seeing "alive" a poorly educated, extremely arrogant, and venal American journalist, one of those who cheat and "brainwash" the American people ...

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