we all know that real meaning, gaston meanin significant meaning accrues. netflix and people are binging. >> it was flashy video and graphics and cable news, short sound bites. attention spans get shorter and shorter. >> we're in the editing room and using these news pieces, i'm here such and such and speaking to somebody, and that person speaks for a minute. now i'm hearing somebody, and that person speaks for two seconds. then they tell you what they said. i'm worried if lincoln did the gettysburg address, today. some politician would say, lincoln just tried to distract us from his miserable campaign out west. >> there's so much written about our historical literacy and how it's not being taught well about how people don't know much about their history so there is a certain dichotomy here that you've been so successful in telling the stories of our past. >> it tells you that there's pent-up demand, there is hunger, curiosity, we all can look at nice u tube things of kittens and balls of string. but we need longer-form things. >> what do you tell them? >>