Even at this late date I still don’t like Tucker very much, and he and I would still disagree violently on many things.

But Jimmy Dore and others brought him to the light in some important ways, and his Fox bosses kicked him to the curb, and made him think even more. He’s thinking hard, thinking well, and it’s interesting to listen.

He’s started doing his own stories with only a producer and cameraman in tow. He’s expanding out to a network (TCN) and enthusiastic about what he could achieve with a team of 50 or 100.

Even more significantly, Tucker Carlson (just like Glenn Greenwald) is convinced that the advertiser model of funding a news show (the way Ed Murrow and Walter Cronkite did it) is dead, because advertisers can be pressured into not advertising, and that means censorship and rule by oligarchy.

What they call the ‘Subscriber Model’ is the only thing left.

Something less like NBC or YouTube, and something more like SubStack or a less squeamish Patreon.

(YouTube is cracking down on multiple new fronts. Trying [and so far failing] to ban adblockers, for example.)

They discuss why that isn’t perfect, and I’ll add a thing they didn’t mention. The System can still whack you at the credit card processor level, or freeze your bank account. It happens already and it will happen again and again.

Glenn has Rumble and Rumble is immune to it all, in the short term.

It will probably be the same for TCN, for a while yet. I don’t know if I’ll watch it, but I’m glad anyway.

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(Same interview, on the subject of capitalism, as filtered through DueDissidence.)