If you're looking for moral clarity, you're not going to find it in Hollywood. I would be uncomfortable working there with that money because I didn't call on a couple of years ago. And also, you know, Vice has a- and journalists there have a decision to make around whether they want to work. The question is, do you totally isolate them, which in many ways makes them more dangerous?
Kara and Scott are back to discuss the demise of a journalism antitrust bill, as well as a potential deal between Vice and a Saudi media giant. Also, Twitter says payments to a whistleblower shouldn't affect its deal with Elon Musk. Then, Friend of Pivot Mark Bergen chats about his new book, “Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination.” Plus, Scott was on Bill Maher!
You can read the statement we mentioned from Little People of America here.
Mark Bergen is on Twitter at @mhbergen.
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