Douglas Murray
speaker
622 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 17 Aug
Douglas Murray’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Somebody goes up and shoots up a gay bar.
Whole load of the media start talking about the right wing, about the right wing shock jocks who've caused this.
They go on and on about it day after day until, oh, it turns out the man taken into custody is non-binary.
Story disappears.
That would have been a really interesting story to keep on at, but it just goes away because the narrative isn't the one that the mainstream media wanted.
It's too complex.
So I applaud you, Michelle, when you go and find complex stories and you explain the complexity, but that's not the habit of the mainstream media anymore.
Thank you.
Would that they were still interested in that nuance, Michelle.
Would that they were.
Malcolm Gladwell said we need to define mainstream media.
If we haven't, it's because I spoke to the organizers before this tonight saying, are we going to spend the whole of the debate debating what the mainstream media definition should be?
And they assured me not.
But we can do.
Let me do it in shorthand.
The mainstream media, in my view, would be, for instance, things like government-subsidized media that say what the government wants them to say.
I would say that it was the legacy media, the newspapers we used to trust once and we don't trust anymore, the ones that used to be the papers of record and which have slowly descended into just partisan hackery of whatever their own particular peccadilloes are that month.
Malcolm, you did a little nasty jab there, I noticed, at Matt, by trying to pretend that Matt Taibbi is desperate for the era of white men in broadcasting.
It takes a certain chutzpah to make that claim, but I don't see any reason why that is the case with Matt.
I don't think that you are hankering desperately for a world of white news presenters.
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