Hitler had this understanding that you speak to people's deepest, darkest emotions and give them voice that can be incredibly effective.

BE THE MEDIA is uplifting and empowering.

We're going to put Hulu ahead of you, unless you pay up.

I don't think anyone at Google feels happy about it, but they've been in some sense, you know, enslaved to their business model, and so they have to satisfy their advertisers.

I want to say, however, one thing our media in America has done which didn't happen in other totalitarian states is it has very effectively stood up to Donald Trump who has obvious fascist tendencies and his - who's a temptation like all authoritarian figures to try to crush the media or make it obey him. As that - the media has, in fact, stood up to him and has refused to bow out or cower.

The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.

Starting with radio, starting with television, we got used to this idea of stuff being free as long as you just watch a few ads.