With public television, they're making things that aren't driven by advertisers. They're one of the only platforms where we can really mine for truth.
It's tabloid. It's 24/7 news - people get in the middle of a news cycle for 24 hours off of things that previously would never have gotten the kind of coverage that is happening.
What's 'straight news?' I guess a lot of people out there in the general public would probably say the New York Times and Reuters. I just disagree that is straight news.
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
The media these days are not so much interested in saying things truthfully without distortion, without misrepresentation, without ridicule.
Effective self-government cannot succeed unless the people are immersed in a steady, robust, unimpeded, and uncensored flow of opinion and reporting which are continuously subjected to critique, rebuttal, and reexamination.
If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they - the Administration - believe.
Unfortunately, a lot of the mainstream media television is so fake, so plastic, that it's really turned off the younger generation.
I wanted the truth, and I wanted the news, and I'd be damned before I settled for anything less.
