Tina Brown

And that's unfortunately what this latest, the newer generation have experienced ever since they've begun their careers, which is very, very sad.

Of course they do.

I mean, the gatekeepers have gone.

Everyone goes, yes, well, as if the gatekeepers were some kind of terrible, you know,

inhibition to doing anything good.

The gatekeepers were also the tastemakers, you know.

So the thing about not having any gatekeepers means that there is no one person who's got the flair, the taste and the courage to say, I like that.

I want to do it.

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?