Oliver Darcy

I mean, it's a very awkward place to be.

And I'm very thankful that I decided to leave the network and to launch Status because we're totally independent.

And so I can now cover CNN and all these companies aggressively.

There's no awkwardness.

I'm not seeing anyone in the cafeteria.

And it does just allow you, not that I was pulling punches while I was there.

I think anyone who was reading the coverage would agree that wasn't the case.

But it just allows you that additional breathing room to tell it like it's really happening.

Broadly speaking, I think it's media executives, media companies, and tech companies bending the knee in a very overt way

manner to Donald Trump and to power.

And I think that's kind of the through line that we're seeing across industries, whether it's Hollywood, whether it's Silicon Valley, or whether it's the news media.

And there are a lot of examples, unfortunately, of this happening, whether it's at the Washington Post, whether it's at Paramount, whether it's at Meta or Apple or Google, it's happening across the board.

And I think

Unfortunately, it's the story that we have to cover.

And I think, again, being independent, not working for these companies, not getting a paycheck from these companies, not being supported by them allows us to say, wait a second, this is very abnormal behavior.

This is really, frankly, embarrassing behavior for them and to call it out.

And I think that's actually what made us attractive to subscribers because they don't really get this coverage from other people because they're part of the problem.

You know, their organizations are.

I think you're exactly right.

I think like the YouTube audience in particular is growing every single day.