Recovering Journalistic Integrity | Kendel Ehrlich

Take us back.

Let me ask you this because you all were running as a Republican family in a very blue state.

In 1990, when you think about the cultural political climate then, I mean has it always been nasty and partisan or was it – have we entered kind of a new era in terms of kind of partisan politics and nastiness and talk to us about that.

So I'm gonna steal what my husband, how my husband would answer this because he'll take you to the history books and say Adams and Jefferson and it was nasty.

They took out ads in papers then.

And really went after each other and undercut each other in business.

And so there are degrees.

I think we always say the era that we're in is the worst.

But people have always said that.

Exactly.

People have kind of always said that.

But I will say that social media is... has given a platform to every human being.

And we did not run during the social media era.

I mean, emails, yes, but it wasn't heavily.

Bob left office in 2007, so now it's almost coming on 20 years.

I think that's the year

Instagram was born.

Yeah, and the—

Twitter was 06, and I think Facebook was like 05, maybe, or maybe 03 or 04.

Yeah,

and the cell phone, as we know it now, was 2010, I think.

The

iPhone.

The smartphone, yeah.

And