being raised. literally hurting people again. the question is whether facebook will change on its own or will they be forced to change? it will not. think about this congress regulating. think about the 30s when the communication act was written versus this congress today. that s really frightening, too, because we don t have people on capitol hill that can regulate. in our final minute. we talked about ozzie media last week, this facade of a media company claimed to be a somewhat. car lotion watson on the today show claiming he s coming back. six days later, i see no tweets or instagram posts. they re not really back. they brought back a few newsletters that hit my inbox. the other problem is there s troetly a trust gap between every stakeholder ozy would have to work up to get its company up
over others. by now i m sure you heard about carlos watson and the implosion of ozzie media. the media company never really achieved prominence in the field of journalism, nor did it ever make an impact producing multimedia content, but that sure didn t stop investors from filling watson s coffers with more than $70 million in funding. why? because he had that gift of making white people comfortable. for those of us who don t prioritize their feelings over our actual equality, funding for our platforms is far less available. in 2017, venture capital investment reached just over $84 billion. now, that s a height not seen since the dot com bubble of the early 2000s, but practically none of that money went to startups run by people of color. a majority of funds went to college educated white males. white people make up more than 70% of venture capitalists while
about the bombshell allegations being made by his client tonight and ozzie media is shutting down less than a week after a new york times report uncovered a string of lies and misrepresentations surrounding the company. tonight, i m talking to ben smith, the times reporter that broke that story. let s get started. all right. stalemate sunday, that s where washington is tonight as divisions within the democratic ranks keep two bills that are critical to president joe biden s agenda from getting to his desk. to be fair, it s not exactly the entire democratic caucus that s in fighting. it s actually two senators. two out of 50 that are holding it up. now progressives remain steadfast in that the bipartisan
i want to check the sourcing out there. yeah, it s funny how many people find their principles after they leave the trump administration and starting up books. william barr is an example there. woodward and costa, we have not been seeing them in six months, they have been writing this book. there are so much in there. we want to ask them about general milley, did it go down the way it went down. general milley says he was just doing his job and a lot of people knew he was not going back channel or not undermining anyone. a lot to ask, busy morning. along with joe and willie and me, we have our jonathan lemire and washington editor, ozzie media and katy kay is with us. president biden will deliver his first address, the united nation general assembly since taking office. the president arrived in new
vivica a. fox. you know who s been hustling in and around the beltway for years. she started with bbc news. lead washington anchor for many years and is now with ozzie media. she s the best selling author of the confidence code. thanks to both you have for being here. you re welcome, darling. you re welcome. good to have you. help me with it. womenomics. you can do it. i m learning as i go. that s part of journalism and being a person. we re going to go to you first. your debut on the beat. what is on your fallback list? on my fallback list, oh my