PUBLISHER 6 AUGUST 2025 www.goodnewsfl.org Good News • South Florida Edition “Jeremiah was a bullfrog was a good friend of mine. I never understood a single word he said” are the opening lyrics to this song, interestingly enough, titled “Joy to the World” and made famous by the rock group 3 dog night. Continuing on through the lyrics of the song, you come to the part where it says, “If I were the king of the world, I’d tell you what I’d do; I’d throw away the cars and the bars and the war and make sweet love to you.” Knowing that in Revelation 19:16 there’s only one King of Kings and Lord of Lords and that He is the supreme ruler in both Heaven and on Earth; however, it’s nice to dream. “If I were the king of the world,” I would start by buying up certain highprofile media like the New York Times, the Washington Post and the LA Times. The media is not the problem it’s the journalism schools that the editors now hire graduate students from as their reporters. You see, early in my career, I worked at the Miami Herald in subsidiary operations, but I had occasion to spend considerable time in the ‘newsroom’. The city editor would bark out, “Feldman” or “Smith” or “Jones” get over here… and you’d walk over to his desk; It’s kind of like referred to as the “bullpen,” and he would semi mumble the orders he wanted you to do: is “get” the story, and he would tell you what the story would eventually be and you would use your modest investigative skill to track down and speak to people, get quotes and write the story that he’s asking you to “get.” Now, I say that delicately because there’s a difference between “get” and “report.” Report would be like a traffic accident; report what happened, but “get” is to manufacture the story to fit the narrative. He wasn’t asking you to lie or be untruthful, because he was going to be the arbiter of what was truthful in his editing role and duties based on confirming sources and in important issues, third-party corroborating, but you were tasked with the responsibility to “get” that story, i.e. campaign, bribery, payoffs, shady deals, etc. So if I were king of the world, the first thing I would do is to buy the NY Times and WAPO and the LA Times. I would probably immediately fire every reporter and anyone with editorial responsibilities that has been hired in the past 20 years, and I would put a moratorium on hiring any employee who is a graduate of Columbia University, Harvard or New York University, or any Ivy League journalism schools in the Northeast. I would only hire journalism graduates from the Midwest schools, primarily city colleges or state universities that foreign interests have not specifically bestowed huge endowments in their journalism schools: to re-shape, re-frame and re-narrate a new twist in the truth since the major media is still the genesis for breaking stories where “bloggers” get the sniff of the trail, and then run wild with it in their Internet freedom. America has run amok from with fake news, fake stories and fake narratives and nonexistent facts. It’s all opinion from people who intrinsically hate America by thinking their hatred will reshape America into a better place? They never once suspect that they were mind controlled and manipulated in the college journalism schools. Heck, they could pass the polygraph test, thinking their truth is the real truth. The mind control has been deep and complete. I have witnessed the background of what generally was true, unbiased and unmanipulated fact gathering organizations that would get a source, get a confirmation and get a third collaborative source, and only then with an important story, would it actually run - once that story was broken in any of the major media. The rest of the media was onto the next story, because they had already been scooped. It taught and developed young reporters to be vigilant and nimble and to find credible sources for corroboration. This no longer exists in today’s media world. Therefore, it’s hard to teach that foundation unless we have journalism schools that have the temerity to teach students to search for facts rather than opinion that is generally passed off as reporting when in fact, it has nothing to do with reporting, but it has everything to do with spinning. What has happened to an industry that I felt walked on hallowed ground of integrity and professionalism but now those two words - “integrity” and “professionalism” - are words only found in a dictionary, but not in the marketplace with the current media. Somehow, we have to break through and recapture our soul. I have faith and trust, we will. On a happier note, this song ends: “Joy to the world, all the boys and girls joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea joy to you and me.” If I Were the King of the World - Leslie J. Feldman - Publisher Advertising: We reach over 110,000 readers each month. 80,000 in print and 30,000 via our online digital edition. Placing an ad in our publication is affordable and effective to help grow your business. Call us today! Distribution: Available in more than 800 locations throughout South Florida. To become a free distribution point for the newspaper, please contact Shelly. 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Sylvester Memorial Library at South Florida Bible College, located at 2200 SW 10th St. in Deerfield Beach. The accredited Bible college is celebrating its 40th Anniversary equipping students for ministry in South Florida and experiencing rapid growth. Read the full cover story on pages 28 and 29. Photo credit: Justus Martin www.justusmartinphoto.com Good News • August • Volume 27 Issue 5
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