Malcolm Gladwell
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You cannot say anyone can become a doctor and then complain when the surgeon takes out your spleen and thinking that it's your gallbladder, right?
Now, why am I making such a big deal about this?
Because trust is not about content.
Trust is about process.
And there is one institution here that strikes me has a commitment to the right kind of process and a whole set of other institutions that most assuredly do not.
A couple of things that I'm puzzled over.
One is that I thought that since you guys were in favor of the proposition, you would at some point have given us a definition of what you meant when you used the phrase mainstream media.
I'm still waiting for that because what it seems to me that you're doing is you're giving a bunch of very cogent and accurate critiques of the media.
But the proposition before us is not that the media behaves nicely and well all the time.
It's whether the mainstream media does.
And without you giving us any direction about what you mean with that phrase, I'm a little lost.
And for example, Douglas, I noticed in your comments to me right now, you said that I, would I have been called if I were not who I am?
It was very...
puzzling locution, but if I were someone else, would I have been called, if I had been quote, and I'm quoting from you, if I had been, if someone else had been quote, grossly defamed in the mainstream media.
But I wasn't grossly defamed in the mainstream media.
I was grossly defamed in the non-mainstream media.
Which is my point, right?
Second thing was, I was greatly amused by the affection Matt Tiabi has for the age of Walter Cronkite, which he seemed to hold up as a kind of golden moment.
In that moment, the mainstream media was populated entirely by white men from elite schools.
Why you would have had
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