Juno News - October 27, 2020


True North Speaker Series – Conrad Black


Episode Stats

Length

2 minutes

Words per Minute

106.68423

Word Count

216

Sentence Count

10


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 You cannot have a functioning democracy without a free press.
00:00:14.280 You can't have anyone intervene with the free press, they have to be free.
00:00:18.900 And yet if the public is so disrespectful of them, the continued existence of a free
00:00:23.100 press will not become, or at least will feast to be, a matter of great public urgency.
00:00:29.840 And what we need is a more honest and respectable press that re-earns the respect of the country.
00:00:44.660 In being so successful in the real estate business, in the toughest city in the world, and reviving
00:00:53.760 so quickly from a real economic crisis, and with such ingenuity.
00:00:58.560 And in becoming an instant, and for a prolonged period, television star, something that proverbially
00:01:07.000 millions of Americans spend their whole lives trying to do without much success.
00:01:11.440 In all of that, I believe that he achieved more before he became president than any previous
00:01:18.440 president, except those who were president who had been instrumental in founding the country
00:01:25.720 and setting up its institutions.
00:01:27.440 And I believe, as I mentioned, that he's been the most successful first term president in
00:01:39.680 the history of the country, except for Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Mr. Nixon.
00:01:42.440 In that the history of the country of Australia or the global government, he's been born in the
00:02:00.480 nation.