David Pakman

When we don't like the decisions Twitter's making about what can be published, we say the government now tells Twitter that they have to publish certain things like during the pandemic, for example, or whatever the case may be.

So I think that those are kind of the building, the most important building blocks right now

But it's an authoritarian movement far more than republicanism was really for the 20 years prior to Trump.

I really started just out of boredom.

A community radio station when I was in college started up.

And at that point, you just had to sign up and you got a show.

It was like a very low barrier to entry.

So it was easy to get a show.

But very quickly, you know, I came up when podcasts were growing and then YouTube for news and politics content got going.

And so I got involved in that.

The biggest difference now from when I started was when I started, the pie was getting bigger so fast that as there were new entrance creating content.

it had no importance whatsoever on your audience because the pie was growing so quickly as people transitioned from cable and broadcast radio to podcasts and online video.

That's changed now because a lot of that transition has slowed down.

There's sort of like a critical mass that was reached and then growth slows down.

So, so a lot of the people who have trans who did transition over to digital media,

Um, have done so already and there's sort of like a smaller opportunity for the pie to grow and so many people are now doing this.

So I think I benefited a lot from timing in the sense that I got in early enough to build an audience and I was recently talking to some Canadian journalists who were just getting going in this and I said, I, it would be very difficult to start right now because there are so many more people doing this than, than there were.

I think that that's great in terms of democratization.

And also it does put a little bit more of the onus and responsibility on the audience when it comes to media literacy and determining what exactly am I getting here?

Is this trustworthy?