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On Sunday night, Ted Sarandos was at the Kennedy Center, in Washington, honoring Bill Maher at the annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. During the afterparty, I’m told, one attendee asked Ted whether Netflix would ever get into the TV journalism game. “Ted firmly slammed the door on it, saying very directly that he has zero interest in being in the news business,” a guest present at the event told me. Among other things, Ted cited “the problems it can cause with global governments who are unhappy with the coverage.”