We used to live in an era or we thought we lived
in an era, where the digital revolution would allow

us to embrace different ideas, different cultures,
different people. It would expand our horizons,

it would give us a view into different ideas and
different worlds and in fact and it has but one

of the consequences of that is that uh people
are overwhelmed by this proliferation of bits

of information. Some of it's interesting, some of
it's not interesting, some of it's lousy, some of it's crappy

um and there has been at a certain point a kind
of retreat from information because it is so harsh

and so uh out of context, so unframed and news
organizations are finding that people are

uh they don't want to watch the news at night.
Kind of because they have a pretty

good idea of what went on do they need more information? Sometimes they do. So mostly they don't.

That's one of the reasons in my opinion
for the success of something like Netflix

because you can stream entertainment
without the intrusion of advertising.

You paid a monthly fee for it of course but it is
a kind of relief from the assault of daily news.