JVL (Jonathan V. Last)

For sure.

Yeah, I mean, narrowly, I think it's pretty bad.

There are only three major networks and they are declining, but they're still pretty important.

They're big.

And here's the thing that I think people don't quite appreciate.

Yes, in total viewership, networks are declining.

But also in a world of super fracturization and super balkanization of information resources, even having a large audience, a smaller but still an absolutely large audience, you know, I think 60 Minutes was getting 9 million viewers or something like that.

Yeah.

that becomes increasingly valuable because in, in a world of, you know, with a hundred different choices, it's very hard to get, nobody can get to 30 million viewers, but even getting to nine is really hard and really valuable.

And if you can have that, you have a lot of power to set agendas.

You have a lot of power to spread ideas and information.

And so I think it's

It's not great.

And it would be not great if it was all based on incompetence.

It's really not great because it's based on corruption.

And what you have is essentially not just corruption.

A network being dismantled by boobs who don't know what they're doing.

That would be bad, but it's fixable.

This is something different.

This is something close to like a state approved news network where, you know, you're not really going to get anything that the regime doesn't want unless the regime is run by Democrats.