Philip Balboni has done it all. Victory & tragedy. Built his own cable network. Co-founded GlobalPost & World Political Review. Board & Executive Member of Columbia School of Journalism. Won every major award in American Journalism. Lost a reporter, Jim Foley, to an ISIS execution video.

We asked him the questions everyone else is too polite to ask.

• Did the legacy networks drift left first, or did Fox and GB News just find the audience they’d already lost?

• Who actually runs a newsroom now. Journalists. Politicians. Or Big Tech?

• Can “independent and nonpartisan” survive when journalism and academia lean left?

• What losing Jim Foley taught GlobalPost about the real cost and value of journalism.

He didn’t dodge one of them.

Arsonist or fire department. You decide.

In Search of Sanity. Listen now.

Fly the Stars and Stripes today and you’re either a patriot or a problem, depending on who’s watching. Put up a St George's Cross in England and you're either patriotic or prejudiced. What changed?

This week we discuss record-low patriotism numbers in America, a lamppost flag war in Britain, a Church of England warning shot, and a straight answer to the question nobody’s asking plainly enough: Why did the flag stop being ours, and start being a side?

Conversations over confrontations. Ideas over ideology. Make sure to subscribe to our free Substack if you enjoy the content.

You already know the algorithm is playing you. What nobody tells you is you can play it right back.

This week on iSoS, we dig into the actual science of why outrage spreads faster than good news online. Then we discuss some concrete moves that flip the script and start feeding you content that makes you feel like a person again, not a gladiator.

Discussed: Media Literacy, Social Media, Politics, Bipartisanship, Online Discourse.