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submitted 9 months ago by mozz@mbin.grits.dev to c/videos@lemmy.world

"With our show... no one in their right mind would try and do a show about prison health. No one. No one wants to hear about that. But they should know about it! And so we're going to force-feed it to them, and we're in a very very lucky position, because we don't have the commercial pressures that other certain news outlets do have. So we are lucky to be able to follow whatever interests us, and force-feed it to people, but they can't or won't do that.

"And so you are left with kind of yammering talking heads on TV who are are really not talking about much. The problem with being in a perpetual election cycle -- and we're in election year now, it never really feels like the election year stops -- that's the problem, right? And that takes out all the air from a room, because you're just talking about people, candidates, politicians -- whereas policies are much more important than politicians.

"But we are focused on the personalities, and that's easy to do, but it's not the most important stuff."

-John Oliver

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[-] can@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[-] tryagain@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Not that I won't go back and watch the whole thing, but also I wanna see the quote, so thank you

this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2024
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