{"id":607647,"date":"2021-07-31T17:06:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T21:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=607647"},"modified":"2021-07-31T17:06:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T21:06:14","slug":"prager-the-media-produces-derangement-proof-from-new-york-times-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prager-the-media-produces-derangement-proof-from-new-york-times-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"PRAGER: The Media Produces Derangement: Proof From New York Times Readers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fprager-the-media-produces-derangement-proof-from-new-york-times-readers%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=607647&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DC7602D8-140F-4DF2-8BC5-04C3F85A05F9-scaled-e1627679671288.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This past weekend, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd added another column to the myriad irrational and hysterical pieces about the \u201cexistential threat\u201d climate change allegedly poses to human life.<\/p>\n<p>As I do after almost every piece I read on the internet, I read comments submitted by readers.<\/p>\n<p>One provided me with an epiphany.<\/p>\n<p>It was a comment submitted by New York Times reader \u201cSophia\u201d of Bangor, Maine:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have one child, a daughter, who told me age 8 that she would never have a child because of global warming. She\u2019s now 34 and has never changed her mind. So I will not experience a grandchild. For her wisdom, I am grateful. I would be heartsick if I did have a grandchild who would have to experience the onslaught of changing climate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is hard to imagine greater proof than that comment of the power of mass media and of the Left. That a normal woman would celebrate her daughter\u2019s choice not to be a mother and not to make her a grandmother can only be described as deranged. No normal-thinking human being would think that way. Jews had children during the Holocaust and made sure to have children if they survived the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>Does this deranged woman know how few people are dying due to weather-related incidents in the era of global warming?<\/p>\n<p>Danish statistician and economist Bjorn Lomborg noted this past week:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past hundred years, annual climate-related deaths have declined by more than 96%. In the 1920s, the death count from climate-related disasters was 485,000 on average every year. In the last full decade, 2010-2019, the average was 18,362 dead per year, or 96.2% lower.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the first year of the new decade, 2020, the number of dead was even lower at 14,893 \u2014 97% lower than the 1920s average \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe preliminary estimate of 2021 climate-related deaths (is) 5,569 or 98.9% lower than the 1920s \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe newest Lancet study of heat and cold deaths show(s) that cold \u2018vastly\u2019 outweigh heat, and that climate actually has dramatically lowered (the number of) total death(s) \u2026 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, none of that matters to Sophia \u2014 because she relies on The New York Times (and probably NPR and CNN) for her understanding of the world.<\/p>\n<p>For more proof of how deranged many New York Times readers \u2014 and Washington Post readers, CNN viewers and NPR listeners \u2014 are because they rely on these sources for what they believe about the world, here are some replies to Sophia\u2019s comment from other New York Times readers:<\/p>\n<p>B. Rothman, New York City: \u201cI completely agree. I have 6 grandchildren and weep inside for the calamitous life that is ahead for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ida Martinac, Berkeley, California: \u201cI weep with you, Sophia. Whenever I look my 11 year old daughter in the eyes I feel so many emotions: guilt for bringing her into this dying world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liberal, Texas: \u201cI feel your pain. I have 2 sons. Neither one will have children and their partners agree. I\u2019ll never have grandchildren. But I also realize that their decisions have in some way been molded by me. I am proud of their decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liz, Portland: \u201cFrankly, as someone who has been concerned about climate change, and observing what is happening over the last ten years with real dread, I do not understand why anyone in the last ten years would voluntarily have a child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CC, Sonoma, California: \u201cMy only daughter shares your daughter\u2019s feelings. I will have no grandchildren. As I watch my peers enjoying their final years surrounded by grandchildren, I can\u2019t help feeling a little jealous. At the same time \u2026 our daughters are stepping up to the challenge. I\u2019m proud of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marisa Leaf, Brooklyn, New York: \u201cI, too, am coming to terms and accepting that my 36 year old son will not have a child as well \u2014 for stated reasons. It is painful for me when I watch other young men and women his age going about town with their children. But I understand, and concur, on an intellectual level, that of course they\u2019re right. Bringing more children into the world these days is an existential worry. And irresponsible. So, as I grieve for our planet, I also grieve for the grandchildren that I will never have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do all these deranged reactions have in common? How could so many people living in the healthiest, wealthiest society in human history welcome not having grandchildren?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is they have been brainwashed by the media (and college). They have read and heard nothing \u2014 absolutely nothing \u2014 by scientists and scholars (such as Steve Koonin of NYU, Richard Lindzen of MIT or William Happer of Princeton, to name just three) who have studied climate change and found the hysteria morally as well as scientifically indefensible. It is not possible to live a life insulated from left-wing ideas. But it is extraordinarily easy to lead a life insulated from all non-left-wing ideas.<\/p>\n<p>So, then, the epiphany I had was this: A majority of people will believe anything the mass media tell them. This is especially true of those who received a college education. Colleges teach students not to question, not think for themselves and not to think rationally.<\/p>\n<p>That is why many people believe the world is coming to an end; it is good not to have children or grandchildren; men give birth; Russia colluded with the Trump campaign; Israel is an apartheid state; all-black dormitories on college campuses are progressive; there should be fewer police; it is fair to women to allow biological men to compete in women\u2019s sports; and myriad other absurdities.<\/p>\n<p>There is no other explanation for these deluded readers of The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>However, I do agree with them on one point. I, too, support their children\u2019s decisions not to have children. The world doesn\u2019t need more fools.<\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is \u201cThe Rational Bible,\u201d a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, \u201cNo Safe Spaces,\u201d was released to home entertainment nationwide on September 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd added another column to the myriad irrational and hysterical pieces about the \u201cexistential threat\u201d climate change allegedly poses to human life.As &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607647","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=607647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}