media bias

04 Aug: How to be a journalist in one easy lesson

Learn journalism the easy way

You can save yourself three years of politically correct, left-wing indoctrination at journalism school by just following the simple steps below.

Marxist Martin HirstLearn the following vocabulary with its emphasis on hard-hitting negative verbs:
(All of the following are regularly used in media reports. See how many you can spot next time you read a newspaper or watch the TV news.)

 Sparked (the most important word in a journalist’s vocabulary), as in “sparked anger”, “sparked uproar”, “sparked outrage”, “sparked a war of words”;

 rolled, as in “Caucus rolled the Prime Minister”, or  “The Minister was rolled on  the  issue“. Political leaders never change their minds or review their decisions, they “back flip” or they are “rolled”;

caved-in; back flip; exposed; blamed; threatened; warned; sent shock waves; shattered; pummelled; taken a hit; rolled over; attacked; intimidated; undermined; killed; spinning dangerously out of control; the death toll from a tragic ….….,    

17 Feb: The Decline and Imminent Fall of the West

 Book cover

Introducing my new book, to be published shortly.

The book poses the question:

Is it too late to save the greatest civilization in history?

Internationally renowned social commentator and author, Mark Steyn issued this ominous warning in his bestseller, America Alone, the End of the World as we Know it:

Much of what we loosely call the Western world will not survive the twenty-first century and much of it will effectively disappear within our lifetimes, including many if not most European countries.

This book traces the decline of Western civilization, and the West generally, from the early twentieth century, until the present.

While Mr Steyn is concerned mainly with the Islamist threat, this book takes a wide-ranging look at the multitude of threats facing the West and Western civilization.