Oliver Darcy

I think he's misguided.

I mean, I don't really understand what he's saying.

He says that the press missed stories because they spent too much time interviewing or focused on the viewpoints of academics and elites.

I think that's a...

Strange way to say we talked a lot to experts.

And typically, I think, Don, when you're a journalist, you're trying to get authoritative information to audiences.

And how do you do that?

If it's a medical issue, do you go talk to Joe on the street?

Or do you talk to a doctor who knows what they're talking about?

But you would never go to Joe on the street and ask him or her, you know, what do you think about vaccines?

Should I be taking a vaccine or not?

Right, exactly.

On foreign policy, you would want to know, look, we just attacked Venezuela.

You would go to maybe a retired general or someone who's been in foreign policy and say, what happened here?

What are the geopolitics at stake?

You wouldn't go to some random person on the street, generally.

Now, you might go to them and ask them again, what do you think about Donald Trump attacking Venezuela after having that authoritative information?

But journalists go to experts because they're trying to relay good information to the public.

And so to, I think, attack that is strange, but it's what Donald Trump has been whining about for the last 10 years, because he doesn't like when the news media goes to experts, because they often contradict or pour cold water on what he's saying.

And so there's been this anti...