How the Media Fell Into a Trap of Its Own Making | Molly Kingsley

The Rubin Report

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News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Molly Kingsley about the lasting impact of Covid-19 on democracy, individual rights, and societal norms; the lack of accountability in the aftermath of the pandemic and the erosion of democratic principles during the crisis; the conflicts of interest in the UK's pandemic response, the broader implications for freedom, and the role of media in shaping public perception; the need for a truth and reconciliation process; the importance of continued vigilance and activism to protect democratic values; the hope for change inspired by developments in the US and the growing pushback against government overreach; and much more. ----------------------------------------------- Reserve your 1st edition copy of our new book, The Best of Our Inheritance. Pre-Order open until March 14, 2025: Link to book: https://www.arcforum.com/store/p/the-best-of-our-inheritance-arc-research YouTube - @arc_conference Twitter - @arc_forum IG - @arc_forum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The other bodies that it affects is the media. So, you know, media takes money from Big Pharma,
0:07.1	from Big Tech, from government. And it is a huge machine, really, that is arrayed against the
0:14.3	individual and it makes it incredibly hard to fight. You know, we are trying to fight it. And it's
0:18.8	impossible almost to know where to start.
0:22.0	But ultimately you have to start somewhere and you have to hope that what is happening in the
0:27.2	US will have an impact. I mean, we're in a very interesting position now because it's almost
0:30.6	like at least some elements of press in the UK. They don't know what to do because they can no longer maintain the lie, like the truth has got out.
0:40.7	And the public are not stupid.
0:42.5	The public know the truth.
0:44.0	And the more the media refused to even acknowledge that there is another narrative.
0:49.1	And actually, that narrative is blessed with truth and authenticity in the way that the COVID narrative was not.
0:55.9	You know, what'd you do about that?
1:01.0	All right, so this is a conference, obviously, about human flourishing and freedom and individual rights and all that. You have been talking about
1:12.3	COVID and how it affected this country for quite some time. We sort of left COVID behind.
1:19.6	We don't talk about it anymore. There was never a mea culpa. There was never a real post-mortem
1:24.9	on what happened. So where are you at with COVID and what we should be looking
1:29.7	back at and maybe re-evaluating? I mean, I think that's such important point because the fact we
1:36.3	don't talk about it, I just find staggering. So, you know, I believe so I'm Jewish by heritage.
1:43.1	And honestly, I think what happened during
1:45.4	COVID went beyond any reasonable way a democracy should function. I mean, I query whether the UK,
1:53.5	the US for that period could even call themselves democracies when you see what happened in terms
1:58.0	of, you know, the denial of rights, the censorship, the coercion.
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