Oz Veloshian

It can be both.

entertaining and valuable, a la the puppet regime.

And I take some hope from that, meaning I'm not as grim about the noise as control, even though as I, I mean, I brought it up in the first place, I'm acutely aware of the degree to which that is a theory of the case.

I just think that objectively, the information environment is worse today than it was 20 or 30 years ago.

And we don't believe as much in our established media organs

And I think with good reason.

And there's much more disinformation out there.

And that's a problem.

And people are getting more addicted in their own filter bubbles and they're not listening as much across those streams.

And that's a problem.

But it is very different from saying that the information environment is controlled, that you don't matter, that you can't make a difference.

I'm very sympathetic.

to people that are in positions, they're senior positions, they're in the establishment media, but they are working for someone else.

And they understand that that means that they can be fired.

And the media companies right now are mostly downsizing.

They're mostly shedding employees because they're not performing as well.

The ad revenue isn't what it used to be.

And so these people are scared.

And they're not doing the same job that they were doing 20 or 30 years ago.

And I think that that means for someone like myself, I don't answer to anybody, it's more incumbent on me to be out there.