speech. so now the pendulum has swung in their favor. what happens if it swings the other way to them? i love what you guys said. i think a lot of this has to do with who has power and who has control. so much of the left is used to having power and control over the media. it made me think of a couple stories. umm, one, when i was state department spokesperson in the last administration, we had legacy media seats on the plane. those seats belonged to the secretary of state. i opened up two seats to start getting new voices, new people in. i brought guy benson on one. i wanted to bring in new voices to cover foreign policy, because we only had legacy media institutions doing it. you would have thought that i touched a third rail. you did. i touched a third rail. i had a conversation with twitter. i said i just want to understand why the ayatollah who chants death to israel, death to jews, you know, not just the
anything can happen but it is devolving it down to the user level. dan fifer is all excited about it. it could do to tv what blogs did no newspapers by removing financial and structural advantages of legacy media institutions. no offense to me i guess, but the idea speaks to that. some of what goes on, particularly on the documentarian side if you re at a protest or looking at police conduct or in the middle of tunisia, you have some of that power to share it out there. what s interesting about that is two things. one, it is so easy to use. everyone jumped on it because it piggy backed off the existing infrastructure of your twitter network. this wasn t another social network where you had to ask all