Barry Diller

I have like a word bubble above my head about it, but

It is a great discipline.

And I've seen so many situations where that was not recognized, where prevarication or other methods where you're not aware that that clock ticks and

And every action you take is then your actions.

Well, the Fairness Doctrine was a fundamental tenant of broadcasting, which meant that people

You had to, in any dissemination of anything, you had to present, if there were two sides to an argument, you had to present them fairly.

You had to be fair in your presentation.

And this was...

along with a lot of other regulation thrown out some time ago, and I think is very unfortunate for the common wheel, as they say, meaning that that proviso for broadcasters, that and the fact that they still are, but they were licensed because they were using the public airways belonging to the public.

And so you felt a responsibility there.

if you were in that world, to do the right thing.

And we can define right in all sorts of different ways, but we all know what the mainstream of right is.

To a very large degree, that's kind of been tossed.

Oh, my God.

I mean, we're in a very difficult period about information, about facts.

There is so much from our leadership that is not based on facts, is not true.

It's promotional or it's just outright.

not factual and we hear this thing about quote fake news principally by people who are faking news uh not always of course and listen i hate the right as much as far right as much as i hate the you know the the woke left is as horrible as the woke right or woke right is whatever say it

But we have lost a central fact-based method for the dissemination of, call it news, broadly speaking.

And every bird brain knows this.