stations and do the things that we need to do to defend democracy and defend journalism. let s talk about that means. what is meditation s? mean the job of a journalist is twofold, it is to bear witness into this to hold power into account. and that is what these journalists were kicked off twitter were doing. right? it was gaslighting for him i must say, they were engaging in doxxing. because when i first saw that tweet, i thought to myself, what is somebody doing to elon musk? our journals being irresponsible? no, journalist are doing exactly what journalists are built to do and are supposed to do. so what does battle stations look like right now in this fight to keep twitter from becoming this cesspool of toxicity? i think it is too late to prevent twitter from being a cesspool of toxicity. i think the fundamental issue is that twitter was never a great place to conduct journalism and politics. they were always deep flaws. and offered huge potential, because it gave the disadvan
journalists, but the cost has been very high. and it s getting much much higher. and i think we need to recognize that we just can t have a nice things like a centralized twitter. but this thing has gone too far. and that mosque is literally going to pull people back, he s going to ban people, and he s going to do whatever it takes to keep the attention on him. this is his soap opera, and he is the star, and i don t think that any of us can do anything about that. because as you say, this is not about the first amendment. it is a private company. but we do not need to give him our attention. and i think most important thing that i talk about battle stations, is for media organizations like nbc to recognize that they need to support their journalists. there is an extraordinary nbc journalist, ben collins, who has currently been suspended for doing something on twitter that, honestly, i don t think anybody other than nbc believes was problematic. it was in fact completely appropriate.
process is unfair to that because the press sometimes questions their motives. sometimes questions their actions. and i think that in this particular case, what we have going on here is a direct attack, by elon musk, on journalism and by extension on democracy. and i think policy makers and journalist have to go to battle stations here. what does that look like? battle stations? you ve often said that social media is kind of incompatible with the informed electorate that one it needs to preserve democracy. so, one might claim that some days you are kind of doubts on twitter and facebook, and the things that they have done. why do we need to bother to fight for this? would it matter? i thought to myself, last, night i don t know i suspect that i get suspended from twitter and i thought, i don t know if i care about much. i ve missed the people i interact with on twitter but, does it matter? so i think the couple things that we need to understand. we have tried, over the past ten
questions their motives. sometimes questions their actions. and i think that in this particular case, what we have going on here is a direct attack, by elon musk, on journalism and by extension on democracy. and i think policy makers and journalist have to go to battle stations here. what does that look like? battle stations? you ve often said that social media is kind of incompatible with the informed electorate that one it needs to preserve democracy. so, one might claim that some days you are kind of doubts on twitter and facebook, and the things that they have done. why do we need to bother to fight for this? would it matter? i thought to myself, last night i don t know i suspect that i get suspended from twitter and i thought, i don t know if i care about much. i ve missed the people i interact with on twitter but, does it matter? so i think the couple things that we need to understand. we have tried, over the past ten years to run experiments with highly centralized commu
and rockets with high precision. join me now is the admiral james the former supreme allied commander of nato, and he s also an nbc news chief international security and diplomacy analysts. admiral, good to see this morning, thank you for being with us. great to be with you, and before we launch, just back to twitter for one second and battle stations and sanctions, i am very proud that i am sanctioned by vladimir putin. i think that perhaps in the future of being sanctioned by twitter as a journalist maybe a comparable badge of honor. it may well be, sir. i just described the patriot missile defense system as a game-changer. i did want to know, from somebody like you, who s actually an expert at this, i don t diminish the sophistication of this military effort that is gone into holding russia off since february, but this feels like a big deal to me. it is a big deal, ali, and this is a terrific weapons system. defensive, it has been around for decades. highly accurate, we have