Scott McFarlane

And I hope this announcement is important.

Hey, Ben, it's never been more important.

to be a reporter than it is now.

Let's just reflect on the significance of this moment.

You have this distinctive, if not historic, moment of political toxicity, political violent threats, a challenge to the separation of powers, challenges to democracy.

It's never been more important to be an enterprise investigating reporter.

And it's exciting to have this platform.

People who watch, who listen, who I know care about these things.

It's in their DNA.

It's in their bones.

They care about the future of this country and the future of democracy.

And we have now this limitless platform and this limitless opportunity, Ben, for unfiltered, unadulterated reporting, independent reporting where everybody has some skin in the game.

I think the values are pretty clear, and I hope they come across as consistent.

I've been championing this for quite some time.

Not going to platform conspiracy theories, not going to platform lies, and not going to allow the whitewashing of history.

And that's the ethos at which I'm tackling reporting, have been for some time now.

And I think when we launch the program, the daily program, it's going to be an informational, newsy program.

But going with that value statement of we don't,

platform lies and things that are corrosive to our country and corrosive to democracy.

And I'm not an opinionist.