and developed by an intelligence agency. You know, Thomas, I mentioned to you right before we started recording that I used to do a television show on the RT network. I ended the program before... Or right around the time that the war in Syria began, but before it really got crazy. And it was not a political program, but every morning we would have meetings, editorial meetings, where we would have to let the director of the news department know what we were putting out there. And I remember just one distinct moment right now as you're talking, where I had a very specific framing and he was questioning it. And I was like, well, what do you mean? He was, well, his response to something like, how do we know? This very sort of open-ended question, how do we know? And there was a... I distinctly remember on multiple occasions, there was this tendency to want stories to openly question established narratives. And clearly, it was not with the best intentions. And there's a kind of embedded (33/43)
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