you are not ready for. as you mentioned, she was 19 when she got pregnant and her story is nuanced. it s complicated. it is not easy. and i think these are the stories, especially right now, that we really need to hear. i feel as though there is an implicit challenge that you were offering to all of us, which is to take the time out of our week and sit with listening to these stories, some of which will resonate and will confirm the way we already think about things, and then to also listen to the stories, right, that s the work of the people who we do not immediately agree with. why is that important in this current environment? yeah, i think it goes to the heart of something that we are addressing, which is, what is opinion journalism for? and our answer is that we want to hear from people whose lives kind of intersect with this urgent political moment in some way that can help you understand what s happening. you are right, we might not
i ve seen the rise of opinion journalism. i just don t know how this could fit into anything that we would call journalism. what we have learned during the trump years, and particularly during the rest of this hearing, the level of coordination that is, you know, kind of off the charts. i never would have thought, even fox, maybe call me naive, but the idea that, you know, running things passed president, you are texting, saying this is going to destroy which we have built, that s what those texts say. it s not just his legacy, but what we have built. that is just an extraordinary thing, and the tragedy of it is that there are millions, and millions, and millions of americans out there who cannot discern that this is actually not true. they see news on the screen, they make things that think a little wacky, but they believe it s the truth floating around and that may leo. and that is a tragedy here, because that is what has cost us, or is costing us our
about how they see the world? it s hard to answer that in the abstract, but i think, basically.| don t want to hire people who a fair minded reader is going to think that they cannot totally trust on the subject. for any reason including because they have such a public stake in a side of an argument that you as a normal person are going to feel like it s going to be hard to trust them. i m interested to ask that question, because obviously rupert murdoch is investing heavily in opinion, and substack is really built around people whose opinions are really seen as valuable in and of themselves outside of a larger organisation. presumably, opinion has to be part of the equation here. i don t think we anticipate launching with much opinion journalism. i think there are ways, particularly getting scoops and breaking news, and a sort of open minded analysis that can connect with an audience without that kind of strident opinion that is often just