"Will anybody be able to police what Carlson says, or is this the point? It's just a free for all?" NBC News's Tom Costello asked earlier this week of Tucker Carlson's new Twitter project, neatly summarizing the increasingly odd relationship between the mainstream media and the audience it serves. With traditional outlets shedding trust among a public that disagrees with journalists about the role of news media, a talking head publicly frets about the fired nationalist host setting up shop on a platform where he'll have to please nobody but his fans (and, presumably, advertisers).
