{"id":1793686,"date":"2023-01-03T11:35:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T16:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1793686"},"modified":"2023-01-03T11:36:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T16:36:23","slug":"cal-thomas-its-a-new-year-but-nothings-new-except-for-the-decline-in-good-journalism-and-real-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cal-thomas-its-a-new-year-but-nothings-new-except-for-the-decline-in-good-journalism-and-real-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal Thomas: It\u2019s a New Year but Nothing\u2019s New \u2014 Except for the Decline in Good Journalism and Real Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcal-thomas-its-a-new-year-but-nothings-new-except-for-the-decline-in-good-journalism-and-real-leaders%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1793686&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><br \/>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>People often speak of &#8220;a&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/31\/the-one-new-years-resolution-to-make-for-2023-per-experts\/\">new year as turning the page<\/a> Or forgetting the past and starting over. At the start of a new year, I like to look back a century ago to see what has changed and what hasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>In 1923, America had<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/09\/21\/covid-has-killed-about-as-many-americans-as-the-1918-19-flu\/\"> finally recovered from the Spanish flu<\/a>This disease caused the deaths of approximately 675,000 Americans and 50 million around the world. If we learned anything from that plague, it wasn\u2019t enough to have protected the 1.08 million Americans who have died from COVID-19 (through November, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).<\/p>\n<p>The greatest political event in 1923 was Warren Harding&#8217;s death, which elevated Calvin Coolidge as president. The centenary of his inauguration will be observed in several ways this year, but it is worth noting that virtually every economic principle Coolidge held (smaller government, reduced spending \u2014 he left office with a budget surplus and a smaller budget than when he entered) has been thrown over to our national detriment and disgrace.<\/p>\n<p>This Coolidge quote about government is one of my favorites: \u201cIf we give the best that is in us to our private affairs we shall have little need of government aid.\u201d This attitude would be a great one today.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Calvin-Coolidge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Calvin-Coolidge.jpg\" alt=\"President Calvin Coolidge took office in 1923.\" class=\"wp-image-25205599\" width=\"398\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Calvin-Coolidge.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=792 796w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Calvin-Coolidge.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=594 597w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Calvin-Coolidge.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=396 398w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Calvin-Coolidge.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=198 199w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Calvin-Coolidge.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/a><figcaption>Calvin Coolidge became President in 1923.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the early 1920s, Rowell\u2019s Directory calculated that there were more than 20,000 newspapers published in the United States, including dailies, weeklies, monthlies and quarterlies. In 2018, the United States had 1,279 daily papers. In 2020, one-third of the large US newspapers were laid off. This is more than 2019! Over eight out of 10 Americans get their newspapers now. \u201cnews\u201d Digital devices, including social media. The decline in quality journalism may be due to our lack of leadership.<\/p>\n<p>100 years ago, the USSR began to exist. An estimated 61 million people were killed by the time it collapsed. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/11\/03\/moscow-remembers-stalins-atrocities-and-putin-hates-it\/\">Joseph Stalin said to be responsible<\/a> For 43 Million.<\/p>\n<p>After the end of World War I ended, the last American troops fled Germany. However, they would return to Germany 19 years later. In 1923, Fascism had already been on the rise in Germany.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>Here\u2019s a personal favorite: It became legal in 1923 for American women to wear trousers. You won&#8217;t believe it.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Houdini escaped from a straitjacket and hung upside down. Our upside-down politics and economy must have a modern analogy.<\/p>\n<p>The Disney brothers founded their cartoon studio. Washington was not the only Mickey Mouse business.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate released its first report on Teapot Dome, a scandal that was infamously known as Teapot Dome. There would be more scandals as they always do when too many politicians have too much power. Who needs term limits?<\/p>\n<p>Coolidge, President, delivered the first radio broadcast speech on December 19, 1923. The first transatlantic radio broadcast occurred at the end the same month.<\/p>\n<p>There were still conflicts and labor strikes. Although air travel has become easier and more accessible, safety remains a concern.<\/p>\n<p>One thing is clear when you look back 100 years. Leaders and events are subject to change, but human nature remains the same. King Solomon wisely observed this thousands of years back. \u201cThere is nothing new under the sun.\u201d He was echoed in France by the following French saying: \u201c<em>plus \u00e7a change, plus c\u2019est la m\u00eame chose.<\/em>\u201d English is the familiar translation.<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p><em>Cal\u00a0Thomas\u2019 latest book is \u201cAmerica\u2019s Expiration Date: The Fall of Empires and Superpowers and the Future of the United States.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People often speak of &#8220;a&#8221; new year as turning the page Or forgetting the past and starting over. At the start of a new year, I like to look back a century ago to see what has changed and what hasn\u2019t. In 1923, America had finally recovered from the Spanish fluThis disease caused the deaths &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1793689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,12190,5182,6550,5157,5061,13027,5001,3819,3618,10215],"class_list":["post-1793686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-cal","tag-decline","tag-its","tag-journalism","tag-leaders","tag-nothings","tag-real","tag-report","tag-riot","tag-thomas"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1793689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}