Amjad Masad

Yeah.

Yeah, that's what I was going to say.

They're not incentivized.

You want a career in journalism, being authentic is not the way to go.

Which is so crazy.

Right.

Such a crazy thing to say.

Yeah.

But then I think there's probably a naivete that we all have about past journalism that we think wasn't influenced and was real.

I think there's probably always been horseshit in journalism, all the way back to Watergate.

Tucker Carlson enlightened me in the true history of Watergate in that Bob Woodward was an intelligence agent, and that was the first –

assignment he ever got as a reporter was Watergate.

What are the odds that the biggest story ever you would give to a rookie reporter?

You wouldn't.

And that the people that actually involved in all that were all FBI.

The whole thing is nuts.

It was an intelligence agent.

I mean, who knows now?

Because now it's owned by Bezos and he just...

recently made this mandate to stick with the actual story and not editorialism and to this is the what I was talking about a trend in Silicon Valley of like founder owners stepping in and actually becoming managers well they kind of have to otherwise it's bad for the business now because because of the hunger for authenticity the more you have bullshit the more your business crumbles right it's actually like negative for your outcome