John Skipper
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Podcast Appearances
All these people are, it's so amazing.
You have to ask yourself whether you're doing more net good or more net bad.
You decided weighing in would be more net bad, right?
Correct.
The publicβand part of what you want to do there, which is noble, well said by you, but you do deal with the fans and the public, and the fans and the public are going to be on the side of this woman.
So criticizing her, making this a big deal, is nothingβ
different than what we're seeing in the backlash to DEI and in this country, which is you guys are overwrought about something that we don't care about.
And trust me, 99% of people watching that don't care about the definition of a reporter.
And by the way, you can't make it precise, right?
I don't actually, I'm not familiar with her work.
I don't know what she does.
I don't know whether enterprise, you can't do that.
You could not do that, right?
Because you would lose credibility when you investigate Steve Ballmer or Bill Belichick.
And you have to be able to say, nope, far as anybody here can see, I don't have any rooting loyalties.
I'm not pulling for anybody.
I am pulling for truth.
And that's my job.
I agree with that.
I don't know what her β she's a beat reporter, which by β you know, is an adjective which by itself confines to some extent what she does.