Fred, Let me lift a few lines from the link you provided below and provide my two cents as to why the writer is dead wrong.
"Hillary Clinton had the research, the voter data. Mr. Trump went with his gut, told stories, ripping yarns. The audience laughed, cried — and voted. I teach journalism at New York University, and none of the esteemed journalists I know predicted a Trump victory. " My response: How lame! I don't get it ... What exactly is the writer trying to portray? That only esteemed journalists and their ilk are supposed to correctly predict the winner? Or that all of the smart journalists got blind sided by voters who bought Mr. Trump's yarns? You don't need to be a smart journalist to get it right. I have a reputation to side with the winning horse (look up my record on GoaNet) and I had a pretty good idea that Trump would win ... and I am not a journalist! The whole article is a piece of crap and comparing Trump to Bal Thakre (that's how I would like to spell his name) is like comparing apples to oranges! Instead of filling up the pages of New York Times with more garbage, perhaps, the writer has to do some soul searching as to why their side got shellacked. They have absolutely no pulse on American politics. In the same vein, the writer (a journalist at that) - has no clue that the modern day journalists are almost obsolete with the advent of real time tools such as Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram etc. My suggestion to such folks is to change with the times or else ... perish. The left-wing media needs to understand that Trump does not need them. That's right. He just does not need them at all. All Trump needs, is access to Twitter and the time to punch out 140 characters to get his message out to the world. The world has changed my friend ... it's 2017. These old world journalists better change or they are doomed. Let me give an example of the kind of questioning that went on yesterday at his conference. One journalist asked and let me paraphrase it here, 'Mr Trump what are you going to do about your tax returns and when are you planning on sharing them?' Mr Trump replied (again not word for word) - Nobody is interested in my tax returns! The American public does not care. It's you guys, the journalists that care and I give rats @ss about it. And you know something, even with my tax returns - I won! So, you see, being a US citizen, frankly I don't care to see his tax returns. All I bought from him was his assurance that he is going to retain/bring jobs back to America - that's what I care. Not the stupid tax returns. Hillary Clinton did not convince me she was going to work for me. Get it? The left wing media, along with the New York Times had been trying furiously to derail Trump's campaign. Ironically, I am a center left Democrat (who voted for Trump) and so I almost always read only the left-wing media. Until the most recent elections, I had no clue how bad the American media is biased towards their agenda. Other than Fox and a handful of other smaller outlets, there is very little media support for the right-wing folks. To get an idea what Twitter employees are dealing with, check this out: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/12/inside-twitter-employees-reckon-with-trump.html Cheers, Jim Fernandes Scarsdale, NY. On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 03:41:40 +0530, Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا <[email protected]> wrote: > He was a master of the art of the outrage, of politics as performance. He > would castigate his opponents as “vampires,” “a sack of flour” and various > untranslatable epithets like calling South Indians “yandu-gundus.” > Periodically, he would express admiration for Hitler, immediately > attracting thousands of news pages of free publicity. He regularly called > for books and films that he felt were antithetical to Hindu values to be > banned. Egged on by his invective, his legions would go out and beat up > artists and journalists. > https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/opinion/can-bal-keshav-thackeray-bombay-strongman-explain-trump.html?_r=0
