![]() ![]() ![]() And just as some children will always pull the wings off flies and fry small ants with their toy magnifying glasses, so a certain number of adult inadequates will find meaning in their lives by sniffing around the seats in the public square until they find an aroma they can claim offends them. Meanwhile human nature remains what it is. And if writers, artists, thinkers and comedians do not occasionally tread on them, then they are not doing their jobs. He focuses on the silence from the institutions that we might reasonably expect to speak up: All ages have their orthodoxies. Journalist and author Douglas Murray’s piece is over a year old but it has aged well. In a bitter slugfest that featured tense confrontations, impassioned oratory (especially from Douglas), and several almost unbelievably petty exchanges, Douglas and I swung the vote 39% Read More › cancel-culture-stockpack-adobe-stock Type post Author News Date JCategorized Censorship Tagged Cancel culture (strategies for fighting back), Douglas Murray Fighting Back Against Cancel Culture With Douglas Murray We may need to start asking ourselves some hard questions News J2 Censorship They were telling the truth, as it turned out. 82% of thousands of audience members claimed to be willing to change their minds. The outcome was remarkable: As Taibbi tells it: A pre-event vote of attendees and listeners showed 48% support for our “side,” versus 52% for theirs. On November 30, at the prestigious Munk Debates in Toronto, 20-year news veteran Matt Taibbi and author and columnist Douglas Murray faced off against New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell and New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg on the question: “Be it resolved, don’t trust mainstream media. TagDouglas Murray press-and-media-camera-video-photographer-on-duty-in-public-new-stockpack-adobe-stock Type post Author Denyse O'Leary Date DecemCategorized Business and Finance, Censorship, Media, Politics Tagged Declining accuracy in media, Douglas Murray, Douglas Murray at Munk Debate, Malcolm Gladwell, Matt Taibbi, Matt Taibbi at Munk Debate, Matt Taibbi on media, Michelle Goldberg, Munk Debate 2022, Victor Davis Hanson Veteran News Hound: Why Not To Trust Mainstream Media Anymore Matt Taibbi and Douglas Murray’s resounding triumph in the Munk debates sheds light on why mainstream media are dying Denyse O'Leary Decem6 Business and Finance, Censorship, Media, Politics ![]()
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