You always own your intellectual property, mailing list, and subscriber payments. With full editorial control and no gatekeepers, you can do the work you most believe in.
At the end of the day, guardrails—like all institutions—are just people. We need a broad civil society coalition to stand together in defense of liberal democracy.
The warning from Jane Featherstone this week about the future of scripted TV prompted me to write about other producers who have the same concern about factual TV - not the type of factual as entertainment telly, but the factual TV that is journalistic in nature. The streamers don’t do that type of TV - they are in the entertainment game…