Journalist: Behind The Scenes Of News Media Lies Revealed | Melanie Phillips Interview

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.5 • 13.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Melanie Phillips (Author, Columnist, Broadcaster) about the incident that caused her to leave The Guardian, liberalism’s inability to defend the west, and how conservative’s failures paved the way for the current woke politics of the left. Melanie gives a behind the scenes look at the newsroom of The Guardian. She shares the moment that she discovered their double standards and the response she got when she pointed it out. Melanie wonders why it's hard for liberals to admit that some cultures better than others. Melanie discusses her advice for how to save liberalism from woke politics by supporting conservative principles and why conservatives lost the culture war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Dave Rubin and this is the Rubin Report.
0:06.3	As always, guys, click that subscribe button on YouTube and don't forget to tap that notification
0:11.6	bell so you're alerted of our new videos.
0:14.2	And joining me today is a journalist, author, and columnist for the Times of London.
0:19.2	Melanie Phillips, welcome to the Rubin Report.
0:21.5	Thanks, Dave, for a good to meet you.
0:24.6	I'm glad to have you because I mentioned to you right before we started here that for about
0:28.1	two years I've been getting emails and tweets and Facebook messages and all sorts of things.
0:33.2	People saying you got to talk to this Melanie Phillips.
0:36.8	Now you're in Jerusalem now but you also split time in London.
0:41.2	For my American audience that may not know you.
0:43.9	Can you just do a little Melanie Phillips 101, a little bio before we get into the specifics
0:48.6	of your work, your writing, your speaking, your books, that sort of thing?
0:52.3	Sure.
0:53.3	Sure.
0:54.3	I am a British Jew, born and bred in London of parents who were themselves born and bred
1:01.2	in London, had a fairly conventional upbringing of the type that British Jews in the 1950s
1:07.4	had.
1:08.9	Parents not very religious, not very observant, but nevertheless belonged to an orthodox
1:13.8	synagogue.
1:15.3	I went to Oxford University and read English literature which fits you for everything and
1:21.2	nothing and fell into journalism.
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