Libby Emmons

I did not vote for Obama, and it was because of Afghanistan.

Yeah, he was an ultimate insider.

And I think that's what people, I think that's what the political class wants.

They want more insiders.

They want to get rid of the fringes entirely.

They'd be happy to get rid of Piker.

They'd be happy to get rid of, you know, Trump.

They'd be happy to get rid of everything on the edges.

I don't think the second thing is is I think that the corporations that would be doing the buying would tell themselves the second thing, but would actually still just keep doing the first thing.

You know what would happen?

What was that thing where the CIA infiltrated all of the media?

Yeah, Mockingbird.

And that never ended.

No.

Well, but I think that one thing that we had during the Mockingbird era, if you will, is we had a shared information network so that everyone was getting the same news.

And everyone was able to talk to each other about the same news.

I mean, now we're in a situation where just as someone curating news for readers and trying to figure out what's out there, there's no clear news cycle at all.

It's entirely fragmented.

And a shared culture is useful.

We might be lied to the whole time anyway.