Joe Rogan Leg-Locks Legacy Media, Nails Its ‘Undeniable Demise’ – Opinion

Last week, I came upon a social media post asking, “Who is Joe Rogan?”

There were many replies.

It was obvious that none who replied had ever listened to the popular podcaster’s show. They were still able to comment because they felt sufficiently informed.

He’s a right-wing extremist, someone wrote. He’s trying to be the next Rush Limbaugh, another insisted. He’s a guy who only says things to shock the audience, one commenter claimed.

If you’re a fan ofJoe Rogan ExperienceYou know that all this is false. He’s a pot-smoking, left-leaning Bernie supporter, in fact.

But he’s also an open-minded man who welcomes interesting guests from all walks and points of view.

And he simply lets them speak — each conversation centers on the guest, not the host.

However, social media users are quick to refer to him as something that is completely out of reality.

And to some extent, it’s no wonder — they likely formed their impressions due to outlets such as CNN.

Incredibly, we’re living in an era when not only online pedestrians bellow about things of which they’re unaware, but talking heads on TV do, as well. You’ve surely seen big news names discuss the “automatic” AR-15 rifle or what some ideological enemy said which they actually did not.

Joe also found himself recently in the crosshairs corporate media. They lambasted him over a guest’s theory on coronavirus conformity, along with his personal use of ivermectin — as prescribed by his doctor for COVID.

That would be, per CNN, the employment of “horse paste.”

Cable News Network host Brian Stelter joined in, describing a Joe Rogan who doesn’t exist.

“You think about major newsrooms like CNN,” Stelter said, “that have health departments and desks and operations, that work hard on verifying information on COVID-19. And then you have talk show stars like Joe Rogan, who just wing it, who make it up as they go along.”

No, you don’t.

What makes an anchorman speak in public about something? It remains to be clarified.

Brian, however, presented Joe Rogan Experience as if it’s a program on which Joe delivers the news.

But it isn’t.

Continuing:

“And because figures like Rogan are trusted by people that don’t trust real newsrooms, we have a…problem that’s much bigger than Spotify, much bigger than any single platform…but that is the heart of this right now.”

As for the potentially disheartening impact of an ill-informed anchorman waxing before the world, perhaps providentially, that world is not so immense — CNN’s ratings have been less than triumphant as of late:

On Thursday’s episode of The JRE Joe noted as much — about legacy media in general.

The Daily Caller reported that he was also calling for an enormous tossing of truths on television.

“Well, the most important thing in the world in media is ratings,” the MMA commentator observed to columnist Ben Burgis.

“And unfortunately, outrage is what sells, and if you can be upset at something. And so there’s, like, a perfect storm with me.”

It’s not going well:

“[T]hey are trying to escape what is this undeniable demise of modern mainstream news.”

“They are just trying to stay alive and trying to get as many views as possible,” he surmised.

They were concerned about this:

“It’s not really that that they think it’s important. It’s they don’t give a [flip] what’s important.”

Are sensational stories going to always attract more viewers or are they likely to be less popular?

Or, major news media are merely the present.

Tomorrow, what information will we have? This will hopefully lead to more information, rather than less.

For the moment, it would appear, Joe’s doing his part.

Places like CNN? It’s not always so.

ALEX

 

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