Tina Brown

He allowed me to hire and then get the people out.

Benign dictatorship.

Always the best.

Exactly right.

I'm having a good time here.

I'm sort of like, what else do you want to know?

How much, you know, like it was good.

No, Harry just absolutely would not accept that we're living in a post-truth world.

What made him furious was the idea that it had become this, well, we're living in a post-truth world, as if we kind of accepted this grotesque state of affairs.

And he did not accept this grotesque state of affairs, and nor did he think we had to live in a post-truth world.

He believed that journalism was their

to repudiate that whole concept and to keep doing the right journalism, to get it right, to be living in a fact-based world, you know, adhered to rigor, inquiry, you know, telling it real and publishing without fear or favor.

So, I mean, he absolutely did believe in that.

In some places it is.

I mean, the thing is that, you know, I do feel there is sometimes a condemnation of our whole profession in a way that you don't see with like, you don't go to a crappy hospital and blame the entire medical profession.

I mean, you know, there's a lot of bad stuff out there, which I don't even consider journalism.

And it's just digital slop, let's face it, or ranting, which is equally frustrating.

But there's also a lot of very, very good journalism going on.

and brave journalism.

129 journalists were killed last year.