Oliver Darcy

academic movement that's happened in the country.

And I think you really saw it with COVID where Dr. Fauci was villainized for just giving basic medical advice, right?

They didn't want to hear from Dr. Fauci.

They wanted to hear from these kooky scientists that were telling them what they wanted to believe, right?

The conspiracy theorists who told them what they want to believe.

When on January 6th, they don't want to hear from the cops.

No, they want to hear from Steve Bannon or Tucker Carlson concocting deep state conspiracy theories.

And so the root of what Tony is saying, I think, is somewhat insidious as it comes from a movement that rejects expert opinion because it doesn't conform with their preferred political ideology.

And so while I can understand wanting to capture the mood of the country better and find more effective ways to do that, I think every journalist does.

attacking of going to experts is very strange to me.

And by the way, Don, I have not noticed, he's only been doing it again for a few nights.

I have not noticed him go to random people on the street and ask them for their opinions on things.

It seems to me when CBS Evening News does a piece, they go to the elites, which are actually people in the administration right now.

When Donald Trump attacked Venezuela, it looked like he had an elite do a few segments with them, which was the Secretary of Defense.

It looks like he's having elites be the subject of his piece on immigration raids when they talked to Christine Ohm.

I haven't seen them.

I mean, I could be wrong.

I haven't seen them go to the random people in Miami.

necessarily and get their takes on various issues.

They usually go to the experts or the people with authority or some sort of office.