Derek Thompson

Can we just hold on that?

I'd actually love to hear what you think about the downsides of overlarding the news environment with, say, too much political news.

What is the strongest argument you can muster that we are over-served?

That not just Politico itself, but the cultural moment that it helped to create

leads to a kind of political coverage that is bad for us, that is in fact that supersized box of Doritos that we shouldn't be consuming.

Just to weave this back into the history of The Post.

So you leave in 2006.

You start Politico 2007.

You go on to found Axios about a decade later.

The Post later brings in Ezra Klein.

He starts Wonk Blog.

He leaves to start Vox and his enormous podcast.

Do you see a kind of parallel timeline for The Washington Post where –

it owns big stakes in the stars that it helped to create and nurture.

That it's this kind of conglomerate or, you know, landing zone for Politico and Axios and the Ezra Klein product.

Is that a plausible sort of Earth 2 second timeline?

Or do you think that it's, to a certain extent, the nature of entrepreneurs to leave the places where they get their start?

And before we get to what the Post should not have done, I think it's actually worth slowing down in the 2010s to remember a kind of golden age for the Washington Post.

The boom years, really.

I mean, Marty Baron comes over from the Boston Globe, and whatever...