Francis Foster

Of course it doesn't.

What's really cool is not to be a prosecutor to defend and punish what the officials think is right and wrong, but to be a detective, not a prosecutor.

What's really going on?

Why are all, why do these people think this and are doing this while these other people

Be a detective.

That's the original idea of news.

So what we have here are two different ideas of news, which have been with us since ancient days, which we thought we banished in the 1735 Zenger case, but are very much with us today.

An official establishment view that is frozen and is negotiated within itself.

unaccountable to the general public or a form of news that is constantly curious that holds its ideas very lightly because other evidence might emerge they might have to release those ideas that understands that the world is complex and different and variegated and therefore fascinating two different ideas of news and what we're seeing playing out with all these

battles on X and on YouTube, is these two different ideas are in a death match, in a duel, and only one can win.

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

Will it be dictated by the professionals, the experts, the people who know better,

Or will it be wild and wooly and unpredictable and fun?

This is why we love you.

Okay.

I don't think there are advertisers like, I know the network news is full of like incontinence ads and things for old people, right?

But it's not because those people run the news.

I would be shocked to learn that Bayer or Merck or Pfizer actually says to the anchors of the evening news, don't do this story or do this story.

That would be shocking to me.

But they don't need to.