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The longtime journalist Tina Brown has covered some of the biggest personalities in politics and culture. Now, she says she is “burning with resentment” at the “digital barons” who have taken over some of the media’s biggest outlets.
On “The Interview,” Brown shares what gives her hope that people can fight back against the superrich. Read or listen to the full conversation at the link in our bio. Video by Pat Gunther, Mark Zemel and Sophie Erickson/The New York Times
Transcript
I am so bored, frankly, with sort of the uber rich thinking that just because they're rich, they know everything about everything because they don't. I am wondering what your take is on this current media moment where we're seeing a lot of very fraught relationships between media organizations and people with money. The LA Times, The Washington Post. I just wonder, why do you think people like this get involved in journalism? I wish that they would learn something about journalism before they leap in and think that they can just simply buy journalism and then start to insert themselves. I mean, they're so disrespectful, frankly, of our business, if you like. You know, I don't think that I know anything about, you no, I don't know rockets or or or whatever it is that happens on Amazon's platforms. I mean, I would be humbled in the face of such, you know, brilliant engineers or whatever. But they have absolutely no respect for us. Absolutely none. And that is my major beef, you know, essentially, with the digital barons that I am, probably burning with resentment about it at all times, actually. Really? Yes. Absolutely. I find it I find it intolerable, to be honest, because I have such respect for journalists. I have a strong better in in in our profession, and, it's a very proud profession. And I don't like seeing it being turned into this kind of commodity by people who I would have thought one or two of them might care about about it. You know, you rank one or two of them would care, but they don't seem to. You no, it's tragic.
