Tina Brown
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I really believe that Fox News has been the single most damaging thing that has ever happened to America.
The incredible thing that Trump proved, and he's so good at it, he understands the media so much better than the media understands him, even now.
There's no journalist, really, who's going to say, I just had a long conversation with the president, but it's all rubbish and I'm not going to print it.
They'll never get another one.
And also, it's like, you just got to scoop.
We've really got to the point where you just think, well, what is really happening?
The disinformation and the confusion has become so toxic because people literally don't know what to believe anymore.
I straddle.
Thank you very much, Ali.
I know that Harry was very fond of you, so it's great that you said that about him.
And Truth Tellers really, you know, tries to valorize great journalism, which is what he did, you know, and he believed in how important it was in not just journalism,
Media is not just a sector, you know, it's the critical infrastructure of civilization in a sense.
And he believed that very keenly.
And that's what we do at Truth Tellers.
We put those people on display and say, truth matters.
I would say it was a slightly sort of split level childhood in the sense that my father was a film producer.
And so I was sort of exposed to all those kind of actors, producers, directors.
But we also we lived in the Thames Valley because he used to work at Pinewood Studios every day.
And so I was sent to these kind of posh country day schools and posh boarding schools.
So I had this other life, which was these kind of Debbie girls who used to go to Jim Carners and things.