I buy about $1 500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I’m looking for the crack in the fabric.

Gregory frames mainstream newspapers as both indispensable and unreliable: he consumes them heavily not out of faith in their accuracy, but to detect the moments when the official story fails to hold. The “crack in the fabric” suggests a larger social and political weave—consensus narratives, institutional credibility, and media framing—that occasionally reveals contradictions, suppressed facts, or unintended admissions. The line reflects Gregory’s career-long posture as a comedian-activist and skeptic of power: he treats the press as a site where propaganda and truth coexist, and where careful, adversarial reading can uncover what authorities would prefer remain hidden.