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#396 w/ Chris Stirewalt "Fired by Fox, Fixing the News, Eating a McRib"

The Fifth Column

CHAPTER

You're a Multi-Billion Dollar Corporation Supporter

When you broke the top down relationship in the news business, it was replaced with a bottom up relationship. Instead of giving people information, now people were sharing their opinions and beliefs with the outlet. And that sort of sense of belonging and place and validation substantially came to take the place of that informational issue. I overestimated the importance of our division, and I overestimate the importance of what we were doing because the human ego is a remarkable thing. The number of hours in the day of news programming kept going down and the number of hours of opinion programming kept going up. You could see it slipping here and slipping there. But after the 2020 election, I had great relief attached to the 2020

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