Karen De Coster » peggy noonan http://karendecoster.com Tue, 22 May 2012 00:06:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Peggy Noonan Bemoans the Loss of the “Tribal Chieftains” http://karendecoster.com/peggy-noonan-bemoans-the-loss-of-our-tribal-chieftains.html http://karendecoster.com/peggy-noonan-bemoans-the-loss-of-our-tribal-chieftains.html#comments Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:22:40 +0000 Karen De Coster http://karendecoster.com/?p=6857 In her Wall Street Journal column this morning (“Keeping America Safe From the Ranters”), Noonan yearns for a new generation of media shills to carry on the state’s agenda, with class, dignity, and humanity, just as the Elders of journalism, or Tribal Chieftains, did before them. She writes:

Who are the Elders? They set the standards. They hand down the lore. They’re the oldest and wisest. By proceeding through the world each day with dignity and humanity, they show the young what it is that should be emulated. They’re the tribal chieftains. This role has probably existed since caveman days, because people need guidance and encouragement, they need to be heartened by examples of endurance. They need to be inspired.

…The new Elders will have to rescue America from the precipice. They’ll have to be mature, think of the collective, of the country as a whole.

Like all statists of the Old Guard, or its followers, she deplores the new media platforms.

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