What do you do if you’re interviewed and want to make sure your words don’t get twisted? Or what if you’re not even interviewed, but suddenly find yourself in the news anyway? That can happen to anyone at any time.
In the new episode, I cite examples, and explain why in this era, everyone should be empowered to handle the media. I talk you through it with a man who learned the hard way. Listen to Episode 123, Fighting Back When the Media Targets You, with Shai Davidai now:
Shai was a professor at Columbia. When radicals who support Islamist terrorism overtook the campus, he tried to get the word out. But The New York Times portrayed him as a controversial figure, and he began facing threats.
You’ll learn important new lessons today — things no one knows about what he went through with the Times, 60 Minutes under the previous CBS leadership, and other outlets.
You’ll hear how the lessons he learned pay off. Just the other day, the New York Times published falsehoods about him. He acted immediately; the Times changed the story and ran corrections.
“They’ve realized from my track record that I don’t keep my mouth shut, and I stand up to bullies,” he says.
Shai has a new book coming out, American Intellectual Antisemitism.
Also in this episode:
Why I can’t stop laughing about a tragicomic lawsuit
The ways major publishers are effectively boycotting Jewish truth-tellers
News giants won’t tell you their favorite Columbia radical broke the law
Have elite universities gotten any better?
And lots more.
Have questions, comments, feedback? Supporters can post in comments or message me.
JL
P.S. In happier news, here’s an achievement by the “white supremacist apartheid” only democracy in the Middle East and North Africa: