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Hello, I'm Bonnie Yeager.

I'm born and raised in Los Angeles.

So my question has to do with the crossover between politics and culture.

We've had a lot of experiences in the last week or so, and I'm just wondering how you think that culturally, where it comes from how, what's going on with that? The intersection of politics and culture? I don't know. I mean, it's something that we talk about every week in terms of what are we going to do for our show, because Slate also has a political gap fest. And there's obviously so many questions, almost every question, this political question, very quickly becomes a cultural one as well, right? I mean, the Mike Daisy topic that we talked about tonight could just as easily have been, and it is, in fact, being taken on as a political one. Yeah, and the movie, I mean, the movie under it's like, of course it is. It's got to be a bit... And all these wonderful things she said about Zoe Dachnell, or not wonderful. Very political. I mean, yeah, I mean, it's just like the movie wouldn't have any trance and see if you didn't feel like it we're reflecting back on our current social arrangements, right? And so it's inevitably political at some level and that's why it's good. You wouldn't say, oh, here's where my aesthetic experience of Hunger Game stops, and here's where it's, you know, flattery of my political predisposition begins.

Or maybe you would.

All right. We have a question on your right.

Hi, Keith Woodhouse. You guys talked about Mike Dacey as an actor who was violating

journalistic standards of accuracy and fact-checking. Just a few weeks

ago or months ago, Arthur Brisbane, who's a public editor of the New York Times, wrote a column

where he asked whether journalists should report lies when told by politicians as lies, or whether

they should just sort of give up on that responsibility

entirely and wash their hands of it. I think a lot of readers are also more and more critical of the

false equivalencies that a lot of newspapers engage in in order to achieve the appearance of balance.

So I'm wondering if these journalists stick standards of truth and accuracy are actually

as clear cut as you're sort of suggesting there. Yeah, I mean, I think it's one of the things that

is a little tricky with journalists who are standing up and pillaring Mike Daisy is any of us,

when we write a story, we have to balance the need to be totally factually accurate and the need to be entertaining.

And, you know, I think the question that political reporters face for newspapers,

whether they just kind of take down what the politician says on the stump

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