Hello from our studios in new york city where you know weve made lots of adjustments to to get this done so so so tell me as you sit there and i sit here. And you know were seeing how this is affecting the media in so many ways and i guess it 1st started most notably with the c pack in the notification to some journalists that someone had tested positive and jeffrey lord who weve had on the show self quarantine blah blah blah but now its like you know social distancing on all the new shows its commonplace. Yeah everybodys on skype nets or some similar resume or whatever it is whatever were im going to get so i mean. You know what even shes each other anymore i mean i just talk to people on the phone or a its a huge zuma or Something Like that i see my wife occasionally going to her office and theres a. Book mostly mostly we text each other so. Who knows you know if you do species or were going to evolve into something very weird. Well let me ask you this. Yeah ill let me have a little weak as well when its all over roger and this is skipping ahead whether its a few weeks god willing or a few months or who knows when but when its all over media wise do we go back to normal on a dime i mean or like theyre talking about with education theyre saying well now the colleges theyre all doing it online maybe thats going to change the landscape etc well media change once this is over do you think. Some degree this degree i think its going to slow you know things are not going to go back to normal in 10 seconds as a shooter or i mean it depends on how long it lasts long unless another week or Something Like that it will go back to no more than us but supposed to last for 4 or 5 months i dont like to think that but suppose its true i think it will have a lasting effect on our lives in a whole variety of ways not just in terms of be a bit to observe how lori relate to each other its it we cant even or to speed it is kind of bizarre and i have to say. You know i im usually used to predictions as what i do with my columns but its not to predict this. You know its very hard to predict this but if it does affect media Going Forward if it does god forbid last months and then and then as you say you know we dont go back to normal right away or it will affect us Going Forward how might it affect us what might we see show as being done on skype instead of studios and and and even at that point maybe as a cost saving measure that even a Health Concern if its not no longer a Health Concern but studios and networks saying hey we dont need that studio the guy could do it from home or while the competition mandate that you know you step up and you put a studio together again. I think youre going to see both handing because some people are getting to be able to do things from home pretty well and thats only going to you know this will increase that i think because people will you know Michael Moore this is not badly equipped i mean but im thinking about doing more with it now i have it upstairs and i have my own video so you know its a the cost is not huge so so a lot of things are going to go to work but i think the media part of it i mean whether youre around or whether youre in the studio is only part of the story it is like a logical or has it has been is war dangerous and i think its kind of strange alienation i mean i feel like im a creature of Science Fiction movie its who. Now in an absolutely. Absolutely i mean ive i ive been. In washington ive been in new york city and to see them turn into ghost towns ive been on the amtrak and to see that empty train that normally has to over 250 people to have 22 people as i was told its surreal and it all i got to say my son and i we bonded very much over the walking dead series i mean we caught up we watched that 6 seasons on the disc to catch up to where we were at that point and so we never miss an episode and i just it for some reason my mind just drifts to that series every time i see this scary things that im seeing i bet the streets and empty trains and its just it just freaks me out i cant help it. Be glory like one of the glories of the city where i am right now. Is the hockey town downtown on broadway here usually you can walk into any one of these and and here musicians are just like spectacularly good and you can where these people are you want it i mean theres somebody garages this down where you know the next. Frenzy and that will. Be you can do it the guy who didnt think the guy who is which is sort of the mostly he was the oldest one of the of the. Like protest of what theyre doing when they shut it down but if you but you know theyre here too because if you can we do that were all like this you know its. Like this you know its. Its like a jerk. Its over for now well were you roger lets get it in that we created. Let me ask you. What what we have seeing in the media. Lets put the virus aside but it all ties in you know i had map you can in. For an interview back in 2017 and heres a man who went through it with reagan and nixon and the Media Coverage of those 2 president s and Everything Else and he said at that at 2002017 early on in the trumpet ministration and to trust her he had never seen anything like what the media was doing to trump done to any other president that to me that speaks volumes talk about how you think the me where where are we is there a media is our journalism anymore. No but you have to shoot it is a bit you know what i think you do usually answer this is why this happened why why do you want to supers. Can this 100 percent correct in this. Quiz all this bad but im old enough to see a lot of. You know its way beyond anything that ever happened. The one way to look at it is that the media is the deep sea. Its safe to do deeper into the deep state because if you look at the leaves us of these guys like i just attack nonprofit stein she. Tutors are you know the all upset that people are calling the virus the china players actually it should be the c. C. P. That. Well every living that discussion aside for a 2nd he held on his this guy been around forever i mean this is a city theres a whole class of media people that have been entrenched in washington in new york for like eddie said in l. A. To the suburbs that predict cades as they were immediately threatened by trump in a way that. They have never been threatened or for because essentially he will he he underminded there are self image in a very big way and potentially also there he comes of them or so they just went crazy because this that was why trump i mean i could do the same thing you know i just dont have a you know this later. So if the immediately went crazy and they went crazy so fairs that they couldnt take it back. And you know thats a lot of very difficult because take back their creations and i think you know the hardest things for human beings so are for me not to use to take back our stupidities. But it is you know it is the. Girl. Here that you know her. You know its remarkable when you and someone like you going to will go. Over to savannah. And actually gives troops an impromptu go mouli exhibit. That went well here and tell me if you agree with me here and you know whats going to happen with the election as a whole nother topic maybe well get to it but i think that Governor Cuomo of new york praising donald trump is that is akin to the moment that was used in the campaign for barack obama when governor christie with sandy was seen in a picture with the obama praising and patting him on the back and praising and thanking him i think this is the same thing. You know part of it is obviously that these governors know that christie do quote. The the colored president holes some cash 1st. Let me ask you here people always say oh if only we could go back to the days before fox of course but go back to the days when it was just a 3 networks then we got the story then there was no bias then we got the truth and only the facts that to me and i was you know i was i was a kid back then 3rd to for over at the least at the beginning of it certainly or whatever but that was never true you see the politics of these former anchors now and you realize if you didnt realize that watching it that all of these for everybody has an agenda every writer every producer every anchor has an agenda so we never got unbiased news even when they were just a. B. C. C. B. S. And n. B. C. Giving it to us. I couldnt agree with the war and you know the if you really want to go back into prehistory what it was the root of language to make sense to look its bias everybody wanted to be sleep through the sense youre be well get the saber tooth tiger added my feet and what and who was. It like new language and what we took to each other about is based biased so the networks are just an extension of that. Zillions of years later you know one of these are planning on writing about the internet because you reminded me about it is that. I think the networks are the worst part of the whole thing i mean there are good words the New York Times you could throw the New York Times now but its been the networks ever done many over our eyes that is not fair its democratic and it comes from a period when the television was of course limited and there could only be a certain amount of. Television network which is unlimited. And its the dominance of the networks should be completely undercut why do they have the right to dems particular slots i mean who gives the evening met well government did way back when but dont give them as you take it away and make it democratic again to me you know we dont need the you know. Giving you know says phony started ticking off your glasses and tell you. Im right and youre right. One of the great photos of all time was that who will be believed and it while you listen lance and you and i are that is live with no better were not i know we have made it right thats thats that roger thats the difference the difference is i dont say im a journalist giving you just the facts and you dont say that thats the difference but all these people on c. N. N. And all over the place still and those guys you mentioned cronkite and the rest did quite stay where you are what i told you this would be fascinating folks were talking to roger l. So i mean we have a war coming up on at the price so stay hungry and dont go away. Trade and investment to become magic spells to conjure economic development. 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As the election cycle rages on the media highlights or even invents what they deem to be important even radical what they dont tell you is how the Political Center is collapsing you want these campaigns is what voters think about the status quo. But welcome back to the press ladies and gentlemen and there were rejoined again. By our guest for the entire segment its roger l. Simon epoch times senior Political Columnist and roger want to talk about all of you or your career now a prize winning novelist Academy Award nominated screenwriter as i mentioned earlier why dont we start with i want to go back to. What the media portion that i knew you from you founded something called well now its i guess p. J. Media but it was it was in a pajama media and youre now the c. E. O. Jim barrett is of that organization you talk about what got you into that. Accident in a sense i. Know 2003 i had a novel coming out from simon and schuster it was part of my most is one series of rules that have been rolling successful and one of them is made into a film called the fix with Richard Dreyfuss and what happened was i realized that simon and schuster then the publisher in their atria division was disinterested in the book you can tell that if youve been writing for a while you know you dont get a call from the publicist whatever so i should add a part of the reason was that the the protagonist moses winded a tech you had it going on a little bit to the right all of a suddenly after 911. 00 so. So have i so what happened was. I just i just. I was reading this thing called the instapundit which was a written by this guy named reynolds whos quite an amazing character and and i didnt want to do an author with say because theyre boring well it is oh look at Publishers Weekly said about me and who wants to read that anyway this guys blog leaves the party which was pioneering kind of thing. Interesting lisa i thought well maybe i can do then i can you know write a daily blog of a few sentences and track attention and sell my book well i did that and the book didnt sell it however the blog became wildly successful because i was very honest around 2003 about my political change. And a lot of people were going through that as a prime post 911 so then i got to know when one of the bunch of these other guys who were doing the same thing and. We decided we would try to mix of muddy had speakers who getting thousands of people logging on. Sort of i wrote because of my career in hollywood which was full aishas that about a career but the idea of that counted was fallacious. The flow divider razor its chief to get this business going and i had some fairly for the if ventures with the v. C. People up around him a stanford there. Were one of the great funny villages was. Pitching this is it you know the amalgamation of bloggers was going to make a ton of money and and these busy highways and city hook road theyre so heroes by Stanford University looking at me and nodding they could tell i was bombing like crazy that one of. Them want to go sensitively so you robust of lucidity who i said he has and then he said then why do you want to do this for 6 and. It was the end of an activist and he put it. We did fight a financier i did obviously in that we started pajamas media which became pretty successful except yeah the interesting things of. That point we deal with stickley thought we wanted pajamas need to be a place where on earth people on the left in the right could talk to each other intelligently and calmly and reasoned together you know sort of like each increase of somebody had to come up with pajamas media oh well thats a story in itself because a number of who are involved and there are the people who are viable this was some of the ones who took down dan rather for his lies about george w. Bushs National Guard working hard on when he lied to have 60 minutes the executive producer came on the tonight show the sky quietly and said who are these people leaders of those of average years in their pajamas that know where you are as most of them are who are. Who are you know i was a can of you were damn his who you know you have a well you people are model a bit like i want to get kind of a lawyer among professors. So we said oh its quality job as we sit there you go and the rest is history as they say let me let me go back to your of your Academy Award nomination and that was for. Enemies i believe in 1994 for screenwriter. How when did you start your i mean when did you know circuiting involved in screenwriting and vic thats what Academy Award nomination but you have lots and lots of movies to your credit yeah 7 got me there 20 i didnt that is very standard for for screenwriter debts particular the era i did it and i got started very young because i wrote this novel when i was going to the Grammar School aged 21 of the design called her that got bored by the movies and to do a dreadful movie that i didnt write nobody saw called jennifer on my mind but it would have brought me out to hollywood. Very different era. Because they like the dialogue in the novel you know and were looking for young blood at a time oh now its a much more difficult but you know. So i started being a script writer and after i wrote the novel the original the big 6 that you know who got bored and i knew this you know the good company. You know movie actor David Richard dreyfus. Who. Dennis why would they care and. Do you Richard Eunice itself as i did something of that kind of person. Then into hollywood to be turned his movie was successful it was wildly successful pretty successful and its still pops up on you know. Netflix to actually use all the time and. And went nearer be the movie that i who did the most business was most elusive the it was a very good movie. Well those it had Richard Pryor in it and when he was Richard Pryor was one of the more due to our wild valley that thats all thats a whole nother show in and of itself i guess not to compare to it on any level but my my hollywood career consists of i was i had 17 lines in a movie called the heart it was with brad davis it was a big boxing movie in the era of the rocky movies so it didnt you know get anything anywhere and i never met brad davis who later passed away but nonetheless thats my claim to fame so when youre bored one day look it up heart in the sports guy interviewing theyve trainer said yet you will recognize i got this long curly hair and on the last life that you want to get your book youve got youve got a book in there now called the goat as in the greatest of all time so when you told me that of take it ok its of mohammad ali book its not true things that very easy for me to ask because this is what i read about its about then gelber. And jay reynolds there that who are those guys there in the book whats it telling a little bit about the moment and see what this book is is a retelling of fast in a certain way in the world of big time tennis. Not a great athlete but ive played tennis all my life likes is about the age of 7 and. Its about to go. Who makes it to the finals of his seniors tournament is club and has had a terrible accident in the 1st game is taken to see to say Medical Center and he and the doctor say were going to operate on your back immediately and of whom would be from india or pakistan or somewhere the corner cleaning lady says do not do operational always makes wars go see my cousin gumbo in valley he fix up. Guys a westerner go over there and youre casually asked if its a disaster you can hardly move you think his life is over and he finally gets into his aging b. M. W. And drives out to the valley and meets gumbo who is a. Shaman a vedic shamanistic doctor from the himalayas who starts to give herbs and he starts to give you know her and the girls of the ladies at his club so you know dan ho and hes almost embarrassed and he got back to the house is a human stuck billys and he takes him to the himalaya has to have worry they engineered his death and he starts to have a 2nd life and he can as a very read all the others yeah well that is balance that against a battle royal field with out of the french open and simple but amazing im rather well we were there in the other we wanted our to reading that its funny and it its funny and its touching at the end there people really do like it and unit on amazon in all the usual formats including have it read to you the growth ladies and gentlemen the goat roger in 30 seconds your thoughts Going Forward in this world right now media wise for the most part. Media wise know all crust to anybody including be buddies and go to a lot of go to a lot of sources. And see for yourself because my guess is hell come around to some of the will conservative libertarian sources and i think a very good places i go all the time who just his ego my friends on powerline and and ray you know the paper out and the paper on writing who are now be epoch times is really worth looking at because it knows more about china than anybody because as half the people and their offices in new york are Chinese Americans and you know its mandarin and they know whats going on with this virus thing for me yeah its true they call it the c. C. P. Virus and thats really what it is and i think well thats ike i got to tell you roger its been such a pleasure reconnecting and and this is one of the good things to come out of all this having you want her for the full show and god bless you stay safe will speak to you again im sure im sure to say so whos well you know i hope we can work from home. Absolutely roger simon ladies and gentlemen. 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