Stephen A. Smith

But then you also have cultural shifts that have happened, which is in how young people think about news. One of the things you see when you do sort of focus groups of younger folks is they find more authority and more relatable, a piece of content that looks like the conversation you and I are having, more than nine pundits at an anchor desk for CNN.

But then you also have cultural shifts that have happened, which is in how young people think about news. One of the things you see when you do sort of focus groups of younger folks is they find more authority and more relatable, a piece of content that looks like the conversation you and I are having, more than nine pundits at an anchor desk for CNN.

When they think of news, it is people with headphones on, on a couch or around a table having a podcast, or it's a streamer doing a vertical video. And that is to them what the sort of traditional image of Walter Cronkite or Dan Rather or Brian Williams at the Anchor Desk is to previous generations.

When they think of news, it is people with headphones on, on a couch or around a table having a podcast, or it's a streamer doing a vertical video. And that is to them what the sort of traditional image of Walter Cronkite or Dan Rather or Brian Williams at the Anchor Desk is to previous generations.

I mean, it's funny, we on our podcast, Mixed Signals, we interviewed Colin and Samir, who are big YouTubers who think a lot about, who sort of talk a lot and think about YouTube. And at one point I said to Samir, like, I mean, so when did you start thinking of yourself as a journalist? Like, how'd you get into journalism? And he was like, what? Don't call me that. That's offensive.

I mean, it's funny, we on our podcast, Mixed Signals, we interviewed Colin and Samir, who are big YouTubers who think a lot about, who sort of talk a lot and think about YouTube. And at one point I said to Samir, like, I mean, so when did you start thinking of yourself as a journalist? Like, how'd you get into journalism? And he was like, what? Don't call me that. That's offensive.

So yeah, I think it's a, that was a pretty striking thing to me. It's a very, it's a totally different ecosystem. Yeah.

So yeah, I think it's a, that was a pretty striking thing to me. It's a very, it's a totally different ecosystem. Yeah.

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I just want to get back sort of to the role that the media has played in sort of politics and public discourse, because that to me has been a fundamental shift, is it was a measure of accountability, right? We called it the fourth state for a reason. You interacted with the media as a politician or a governmental entity because you were For two reasons.

I just want to get back sort of to the role that the media has played in sort of politics and public discourse, because that to me has been a fundamental shift, is it was a measure of accountability, right? We called it the fourth state for a reason. You interacted with the media as a politician or a governmental entity because you were For two reasons.

One, you needed the media to get your message out. That was a fundamental thing. If I was preparing Barack Obama for a press conference, the Faustian bargain in my head is I'm going to take a bunch of questions that are going to be annoying. They're going to be about the things that I know voters don't care about. But the price of that is the airwaves.

One, you needed the media to get your message out. That was a fundamental thing. If I was preparing Barack Obama for a press conference, the Faustian bargain in my head is I'm going to take a bunch of questions that are going to be annoying. They're going to be about the things that I know voters don't care about. But the price of that is the airwaves.