Is the media blurring the line?

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]It's kind of this unique feature of American journalism that you have this extremely partisan opinion section side by side with hard news. In the newsroom, it's very clear to them what the difference between those two things.

[00:00:14]But for a lot of people, it's just content and it's hard to make that distinction. And maybe when everyone was reading a physical newspaper and there were different sections and you could say this is the new section and this is the editorial and by the way, these are the comics. This isn't journalism either.

[00:00:28]>> [laughter] >> Um maybe that was an easier case to make. So now you have this situation where journalism is competing side by side with other forms of content in a way it never has had to before and that has all kinds of implications for the trust as well because if in the public consciousness, everyone is just consuming content and they're going from New York Times article to cat video to my ex's vacation photos to state-sponsored propaganda to hate speech like just back and forth between all these different types of content. In your mind, it's all kind of equal.