David Remnick Quotes
We begin to inhabit oppositional and rarely intersecting mental universes having to do with ideology and fact and non-fact and news and non-news.
Remnick, David. Interview on The New Yorker Radio Hour. WNYC, 2016.
In the 2015 political campaign, she worked as a political surrogate for Domald Trump. She had been asked why Truumo made so many statements in his campaign sppeches that were contrary to the facts. This was her response. She was right so far as Donald Trump and most of his supporters were concered. One of the major fact checking organziations analyzed his speeches and found that about 80 persent of Trump's statments were untrue in part or totally. And almsot all media including Fex News which supported hom remarked on this extreme use of exaggeration or hyperbole, However, his supportwers did not seem to care. Ms. Hughes observed correctly that for a large number of Americans facts no longer mattered. What was important was the issue that he was talking about, whose siide he said he was on, the people he blamed for problems and the promises he made.
David J. Remnick is an American journalist and writer. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his book Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire and is also the author of Resurrection and King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero. Remnick has been editor of The New Yorker magazine since 1998. He was named Editor of the Year by Advertising Age in 2000. Before joining The New Yorker, Remnick was a reporter and the Moscow correspondent for The Washington Post. He also has served on the New York Public Library board of trustees. In 2010, he published his sixth book, The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama.
