Tyt Interviews

One of the earliest digital entrepreneurs, Drew Curtis built Fark.com into a hugely popular news aggregation site to rival Huffington Post, Drudge Report and Yahoo. Now he’s set his sights on a new challenge: an upstart independent campaign for governor of Kentucky, running on a platform of getting money out of politics, data-driven policy making and adopting best practices from other states’ experiences. Does he really have a chance? In this interview, Curtis and The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur discuss: - What, exactly, “Fark” means anyway - How idiotic non-news has come to dominate the mainstream news media - Whether the electorate is primed for a candidate who’s not about “business as usual” - Massive government corruption that’s hidden in plain sight - Can a gubernatorial candidate win by admitting that his/her state is not number one? - How fact-and-data-based governance would function - Curtis’ chances of breaking up the two-party duopoly in Kentucky and across the country Check out the Drew Curtis for Gove