233:. She wanted to bring her generation, which ignores mainstream reporting and goes online for hard news, back to television. Minkovski has said that the show's sarcastic and satirical tone is aimed at a younger audience. The programs focus on topics like government spying, the Federal Reserve, and America's undeclared wars, as well as media laziness, Washington corruption, Wall Street tomfoolery because, according to Minkovski, "there is a need to open people’s eyes. I think that unfortunately some people don’t always want to hear the truth, and it might not be pretty, but unless you put it in their face and make them hear that truth, there can’t be change. I think that’s the way the country becomes better."
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Minkovski complained about an interview program that introduced her as "a hard-left, Russian-born, 'blah blah blah' who works for the
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called the show "an in-house attempt at a newsy cult hit" and noted that "her meatiest segments were about government spying, and the
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