Kat Rosenfield

I mean, this is one of the interesting challenges of being a culture writer in 2026 is that we are all increasingly...

inside our own siloed ecosystems where we are, you know, people who watch the same shows, consume news from the same source, read the same books.

And I don't really know how you get away from that.

There's very little cross pollination.

We are all in these sort of paywalled gardens at this point, just, you know, consuming stuff that rings all of our particular bells.

And, you know, we occasionally have a moment where an event happens

that cross-pollinates to all of the different

like ecosystems where people are living, consuming entertainment, consuming news.

And what you'll see, and this was very much the case with Minneapolis, is people come out of their little gardens to try to talk to each other and they have been inhabiting completely different narrative realities.

They don't agree on a shared truth about what happened.

And it makes conversation very difficult, which is one of the reasons why I see my job as,

trying to establish what is true.

What are we actually seeing?

How can we understand it better and in depth?

And can we find a version of this truth that we all agree on so that we can then talk about maybe what to do about it?

Yeah, maybe.

I mean, she's up there.

We had a moment during the pandemic, everyone was watching Tiger King.

Yeah, absolutely.

The people who are leading the national conversation about culture, television, art, and so on, they are generally in a rarefied sphere and are not speaking to what is popular.