Mike Pesca

I thought it was fascinating.

There was a little bit of snobbery, new snobbery, which is something that I used to have until I got into the TV business.

But one of her critiques of the piece is,

Was that all of this was reported in The New York Times as if if The New York Times reported it, you shouldn't bother sharing it with the rest of the world.

I mean, the whole point of why she started the free press.

Right.

The whole point of, you know, is sort of we're trying to broaden the aperture of news consumption in news consumption in America.

Right.

not narrow it down.

So yes, New York Times readers might have known this story.

What about everybody else?

No offense to New York Times readers.

I'm one of them.

I'm a subscriber, but it's a very narrow set of Americans.

It's an influential set of Americans.

The New York Times has

and there is a reminder that when the New York Times reports something, eventually other news organizations are going to do their own version of the story.

And putting a story that appeared in the New York Times, but giving visual elements to it, can be sometimes more powerful than the original story itself.

So that critique really struck me as her not understanding

what her mission actually is at a news division.