and that game was, you know, when we go into a pitch meeting with a reality star, we say, go crazy. do some nutty stuff. like, you know, it doesn t really matter what you say, whereas, i think, in the news business, people are looking at him based on content. it really isn t about content. it s about show, it s about performance, it s about what jeb bush said, which is sort of endless chaos. and yet briefly, final point is that reality shows themselves are not as popular as they once were. right, it s almost like they sort of birthed their demon spawn and now kind of roll up and die. so, you know, reality is going to be around for a while, was it s not the cultural force it was, which is sort of fascinating. is that because it s been diluted? i think it s lost a little bit of the sense of fun, when we were doing it eight to ten years ago, the buyers to a certain degree have forgotten why reality is fun, michael
first, this isn t about content. it s about numbers, durations of calls. so that produces the privacy infringement. second, what this order doesn t tell us is what the government can t do with that information, how it can look at it, how it can disseminate it. and the law requires a set of procedures called minimization procedures that would limit what the government can do. and third, we ve heard some from pete and others is that there is in this case oversight by congress and the courts. all that being said, this is still obviously something that s got to be examined. let me bring in alexander. you heard the list, alexander, numbers, duration of calls. you re not being actually, quote, unquote, listened to, any of the things that michael just lined up make you feel any better about what s happening? no, unfortunately, they don t. the national security agency now has the authority to track the calls of every american, even purely domestic calls. and that s incredibly unsettling. s