Tina Brown

Whether it's somebody running a streaming service or somebody running a book publishing company or somebody running a magazine.

You want those people whose taste is confident.

And unfortunately, lacking those gatekeepers now, it's just this big blob out there of just sort of, you know, stuff and dross that comes careening at you.

And you don't know where to find the good stuff.

I think that's the biggest problem of our time is that, you know, there is brilliant writing out there.

I mean, I see it all the time.

But finding it is like the needle in the haystack.

It's like I'm always feeling, what have I missed?

What have I missed?

Because somebody will say, oh, did you read that great piece?

It's like, where?

What?

You know, I thought I've got like a thousand sub stack, you know, things.

I'm reading social media.

I'm reading the old guard stuff.

But my head is exploding.

There is nobody who can actually tell you, very few anyway, that can corral the good stuff for you and tell you this is needed.

And I personally miss it very much.

And I think other people miss it.

They're exhausted, you know.