Sam Stein

Not to get into meta-media commentary here, but...

If ever this showed the sort of, not irrelevance, but the diminished power of program news, it's a story like this.

Everyone is just basically seeing live stream coverage or clip videos and reacting to it.

That guy who went on the street, who never protests, he didn't go out there because he was watching the morning segments on MSN or MSNOW.

He went there because he's probably being fed algorithmic videos showing his own community getting fucked up

and democratic lawmakers should recognize that that you know this is where the conversation is right now and this is how people are consuming their news okay

deep breath.

I will say I am outraged.

Like every night I go to bed and I'm streaming through these videos and they're all horrible and you just can't really sleep that well.

And then you wake up and you're like, oh, Trump's now threatening to use the insurrection act and just to start all over again.

And it's exhausting, but it's outraging too.

I find myself just being completely maddened by this.

It's brutal.

For people in the industry, it's really chilling.

I think the public would say, well, whoever this person was potentially leaked classified information.

She's not the subject of the probe.

It makes sense to me that they would try to find out and try to get the information back.

And maybe so, but it's an incredibly chilling and aggressive move that is directly at odds with my interpretation of the freedom of the press.

We have the right to collect information that we then report on.

This reporter has been doing incredible work.