Balaji Srinivasan

ultimately reports to the publisher.

And so they, of course, they have veto over it and they demonstrate that veto power with the Tom Cotton op-ed and the firing of, you know, James Bennett and, you know, the subsequent departure of Barry Weiss and the Free Press and so on and so forth.

So, yes, of course, they have these various camouflaged things they'll do where they're like, oh, we don't actually control the op-ed page.

Like, of course, they control the op-ed page, right?

Like, clearly, they fired the guy who published this op-ed, right?

And so, duh, right?

And so, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, right?

So, the tone is needlessly harsh, blah, blah, blah.

And look, you know, this is from a certain place in time where everybody was, you know, losing their minds in a certain way, right, in 2020.

And it reads like you're reading something from the middle of the Bolshevik Revolution or, you know, Mao's China or whatever, right?

Fine, okay?

And, you know, because later, you know, there are other... Gosh, there's a guy, Josh Barrow, who pointed out that NYT had no similar reaction to this when some similar kind of event was happening, okay?

I forget exactly what it was, but Josh Barrow, you know, pointed out the contrast, right?

And he's actually...

yeah, it was, it was, this was like a 2022 or something like that.

Um, I forget, I forget what it was, but he's like, uh, maybe it was China and they were shutting down an agency or causing a problem.

And, um, anyway, net net is, he pointed out that they had nowhere near the level of anger about issue X that they did about the Tom Cotton op-ed, even though it was comparable.

I forget what the exact matter was.

Point is, recursing back up a sec.

Um,