00:13It's distressing when you see the sort of conglomeratization of huge media organizations
00:26that one might imagine would provide enough revenue and foundation for risk-taking to still occur.
00:38But sadly, that is rarely what you end up seeing.
00:42There does seem to be a certain discourse that is threatened at the moment,
00:45and we saw it this year at the beginning of the year at the Berlinale
00:48with everything that happened with Tricia Tuttle.
00:50And I don't know, do you see that cultural institutions are becoming
00:56potentially more and more threatened by political pressure?
01:00Do you see that, what happened at the Berlinale happening again?
01:05Well, yeah, I mean, I think Germany has a unique and specific series of,
01:13and at times contradictory, attitudes or laws even around how we discuss Israel, for instance.
01:28And there's this happening on the one hand,
01:32where speech is kind of being watchdogged, perhaps, and limited,
01:41and people have a hard time just saying, you know,
01:43it doesn't have to be about Jewish people to have problems with the policies of Netanyahu or whoever it may
01:54be.
01:54So it's, Germany is a unique case, but I think we're feeling similar things,
01:59but a crackdown on content and what is called ideology or point of view in the United States.
02:05And it's targeted at the media, and it's targeted at the news industries,
02:09and it's targeted at universities.
02:11So it is a time to remember how important it is to protect our freedoms and our ability to speak
02:22freely.
