Heather Cox Richardson

Some of us would love to have Internet access.

Just say it.

But basically, people don't want to be lied to.

They want the information, but they also don't want politics to absorb every minute of their lives unless there's somebody who treats it like baseball and really loves this stuff.

Most of us are not like that.

Yeah.

So when you think about what the future looks like for news, I'm actually really hopeful from it.

That is, people want to hear what matters in their life.

And you know, that's actually really interesting.

Like,

Think of all the things you've had to learn this last year that you never thought you would have to learn.

In the past, we created new media and we're doing it all over again.

And how much longer are you going to be able to keep the Fox News channel going as its people age out?

I'm not going to argue with that.

I will say, I think that they have gone so far that it has become a caricature.

And of course, that's what White House spokesperson Stephen Chung has been saying.

Oh, we're just trolling you.

Because, you know, when Trump puts those plaques up underneath the former presidents that are

you know, even with his misspellings and capitalizations, those are our freaking tax dollars.

You know, when you think about the way that this administration is spending money, our money, on things like those stupid plaques or, you know, changing the name of the Defense Department to the Department of War, which is not legal until Congress does it, you know, which is supposed to be up to $2 billion.