66. The Ukrainian Spirit

Battleground

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4.6 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Joining Saul for this week's big interview is American journalist Joe Lindsley, the escaped protégé of the founder of Fox News, who has not left Ukraine since March 2020, when the pandemic began. At the start of the Russian full scale invasion of Ukraine, Lindsley started Ukrainian Freedom News to bring truth to the world and supplies to Ukraine. He speaks to Saul about his work and experiences, and describes the current feelings of the people in Ukraine at the moment. You can check out Ukrainian Freedom News here: https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/ If you have any thoughts or questions, you can send them to - [email protected] Producer: James Hodgson Twitter: @PodBattleground Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:17.5	I'm flying solo today because my co-host Patrick Bishop is on the move, and my guest is American
1:23.0	journalist Joe Lindsley, who, in the first hours of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year,
1:28.9	founded Ukrainian Freedom News, which he's been editing ever since.
1:34.1	Joe, welcome to the podcast.
1:35.7	So, hello from Lviv. Great to speak with you.
1:38.0	Now, you're described on the Ukrainian Freedom News website as the escaped protégé of the founder of Fox News.
1:44.8	So can you tell us a little bit about that?
1:47.0	Your career as a journalist up till now and what you were doing in Ukraine in February
1:51.2	2022?
1:53.1	Yeah, you could say I was running away from stuff.
1:56.2	When I was in my early 20s, I became protege to Roger Ailes, the founder and chairman of the Fox News Channel.
2:03.4	Sort of very strange circumstances, but Rupert Murdoch's consigliary found me.
2:09.6	I was working at the Weekly Standard Magazine, is my first job after university.
2:14.2	And the guy who I would call Rupert's cons consigliary found me and he said my son one day
2:19.6	you're going to run the company he gave me the godfather blessing it all sounds quite extraordinary
2:24.1	because it was pretty bizarre and my first step was to work for roger ails who had founded
2:29.9	fox news and from the moment i went up to new York to meet Ailes. My whole life changed.
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