Tina Brown

You cannot do investigations without the structure.

That's the point.

You've got to have lawyers.

You've got to have four or five crack investigators.

You've got to have time, which is the biggest deprivation of most journalists because they're told to file, file, file, file.

How could you possibly go out and do the checking?

Well, the truth costs money.

That's one of the panel discussions that we did in the first year, actually.

Truth costs money.

And that's the thing that I most resent from the tech side of it.

They have the money.

They absolutely have the money.

And if they wanted to, they could say, we're going to use this money to, you know, amplify and protect the truth by actually funding journalism.

They do the opposite.

They have no respect for it and they destroy it.

The million dollars that you've spent on a six-month investigation may just not generate the revenue that you can generate.

And, you know, it'll never be a business model that really brings in a lot of money.

I mean, it will bring in some if you're good and have a big audience of subscribers, but it's not going to be a major profit business.

And that is what their greed won't sort of stomach, essentially, even though they could easily afford it.

Easily, easily.