“Good afternoon, everybody. Good afternoon.” “What I really, really don’t like, and what I find hard to make peace with is that there are some people on one end of the spectrum who are sitting behind their keyboards, writing dangerous or defamatory headlines, knowing that it’s going to work as clickbait, because any context in the rest of the article protects them, and there’s nothing you can do about it. And at the other end of the spectrum, you have Nobel Prize winners like Maria Ressa, who is literally putting her life on the line, and war correspondents who, again, are putting their lives on the line to bring us the truth. So that to me is the spectrum. And my life has been covered by this end of the spectrum, which I will be damned if those journalists are going to ruin journalism for everybody else because we depend on it so much.” “You did say in your book, you said, ‘I began to think at some point that Murdoch was evil.’ You’ve had very strong words about Rupert Murdoch and what you think he did in this phone hacking scandal. What is the goal of this lawsuit, which has been ongoing now for a very, very long time?” “The goal is accountability. It’s really that simple.” “Thirteen-hundred people, from what I’ve read, have settled with the Murdoch folks. And of the 40 claims that originally joined with you in this action, it’s down to now two. And so you think that everybody has just settled because it just doesn’t make any economic sense to continue?” “No, I know why people have settled. They’ve settled because they’ve had to settle. So therefore, one of the main reasons for seeing this through is accountability because I’m the last person that can actually achieve that, and also closure for these 1,300 people and families.”
