Curtis Houck
speaker
271 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 8 Jul
Curtis Houck’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.
Appearances
There are plenty of people, if not more, that say, no, they don't like these shows and what's the point of them?
It was Ted Koppel on ABC that did Nightline for the longest time.
couple things number one journalism costs money and i think that's maybe an uncomfortable conversation with some folks um yes you can support them by supporting the sponsors or um you know merely reading that you know analytics and monetization of accounts is definitely a thing but for certain folks you know you have to have payment you know there is a paywall i think at a certain point in barry weiss's
free press is a good example that a lot of things that they put out are in front of the paywall or you just have to give them your email but other times things are behind the paywall at a certain point yeah the the journalists need to be paid to the people producing the work and there's travel costs that are involved and research hours manpower and equipment um so i think that's one uncomfortable conversation i think that consumers need to
More people need to come to grips with it.
I think it's getting better.
But the other thing I would say is continue to do what you're doing.
I've always said that the internet is a net positive because it allows such a huge diversity of resources in the barrier to entry, the barrier to kind of find out about the world around you has never been lower.
So for all the negatives that you can talk about later in the show, which is
Whereas before, if you wanted to know something, you had to go to your public library.
Your family had to have the Encyclopedia Britannica.
You had to be subscribed to the local newspaper.
You had to have tuned in to the newscast at a certain period of time.
Now, thanks to YouTube, Rumble, social media, blogs, Substack,
You can consume all kinds of information while at the same time, yes, trying to find out what's true and what's not.
It requires a little bit more judgment, news judgment on the part of the consumer and where we can come in, folks that care about the notion of a news business and come in and help folks as a resource and a vehicle.
kind of provide the educational know-how and tools to kind of give you tips.
But consuming, and the last thing I'll just say is consuming a wide variety of sources still matters, I think.
Knowing different what people are saying.
I've talked to you about this.
Showing 221–240 of 271 · page 12 of 14
← Previous
Next →