Tina Brown
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And unfortunately, what it's leading to is just a lot of people checking out.
So it's a very demoralizing time.
You know, I'm always being asked by sort of young people at, you know, journalism colleges and so on, like, how do I get into journalism?
And I look at them sort of feeling like – often I say, actually, you should go to India because India, in fact, has a very vibrant literary culture.
You know, there's not much literary culture about anymore, you know.
India, for some reason –
There's a lot of sort of interest in intellectual debate.
And, you know, you go out and everybody's talking about articles and pieces and books.
And there seems to be a great deal of energy.
So it's a long way to go, shall we say.
I just can't believe that your advice is go to India.
It's not popular.
I will say that when I say that you do see the light fade from the eyes, you know.
Well, I mean, I didn't understand their relationship at the time because you never saw Epstein with her, actually.
When Ghislaine was kind of working the scene,
I think Epstein was slightly in her rearview mirror when I knew her.
I didn't really know about that background with Epstein until I read about it later.
I think that she was...
an abused figure herself, actually.
I mean, her father, Robert Maxwell, was a really terrible, tyrannical guy, a press baron at the time and a crook.