Russell Crowe

So now you're saying that you can't make a negative comment about somebody who's in power because they will now take your house away.

That's crazy.

I was probably a relatively early adopter of it.

But for a while there, it was like, oh, this is the thing that we've been looking for in that I can put a –

post up here saying that i'm going to do a show in germany and i don't have to spend a dollar on advertising right or you know do the interviews and stuff you know and for a while there it was really potent but uh it's definitely dropped off you know it seems like there's a whole lot of people the people that you'd want to be reading your stuff that have just decided you know my life's a lot better if i don't yeah that's the problem i just get away from this negativity

Anger is all based on misinformation.

They've had their morality rewired because they've been pummeled so much by stuff, by somebody who doesn't care what their response is, doesn't care whether what they're publishing is true.

They just don't care.

I mean, I don't know if you ever saw it, but I played Roger Ailes in a TV series called The Loudest Voice.

Mm-hmm.

which basically is the beginning of Fox.

And Roger had been a political pundit.

He'd worked on television in the 60s, but then he met Richard Nixon and became an advisor to Nixon.

And he tried to set up a White House news service back in the late 60s.

Tried it again in the 70s, tried it again in the early 80s, but the technology just wasn't there.

And the money wasn't there.

But then he met Rupert Murdoch and explained to Rupert that all you need to do to attract 50% of the news audience is just make a decision politically.

Because that's half the available audience.

I can't remember all the figures and everything, but the way he set up Fox News, it just became an absolute cash-cranking machine because they got it into the affiliates and stuff like that by offering it at a lower price.

And then, you know, got to his subscriber numbers that still had it making money between advertisers and subscribers at that lower price.