Francis Foster

I think that's a Nixon quote.

It's a Nixon quote.

It is, yeah.

They have two conflicting ideas of news, which emerge from two different parts of our history.

News sort of starts to begin in ancient Rome.

They were trying to control rumors.

And as bad as we think the internet is, ancient Rome was far worse.

In the 1400s, along the River Rhine, is this idea that free speech is necessary for social peace.

The Dutch ideas of the Rhine River tolerance come here.

The upper class

of New York is terrified.

They fear the accountability of the opinions of people.

And what we're seeing playing out with all of these battles on X and on YouTube is these two different ideas are in a death match.

Depending on which side wins depends on how we will see reality in the coming decades.

There is a lot to talk about, and...

A lot of what people when people fight about news, which they do on the Internet every moment of every day, it's because they have two conflicting ideas of news which emerge from two different parts of our history.

And once you understand the history of news, you'll understand why both sides feel so intensely about their point of view.

Well, let's do the history first.

Yeah.

OK, so as all good histories, let's start with caves and cave drawings.