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As Joe Rogan’s platform grows, so does the media and liberal backlash – why?

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Re: As Joe Rogan’s platform grows, so does the media and liberal backlash – why?

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Post by Naac »

0xy wrote: post #101
imposterr wrote: post #91

You know what Joe is? Joe is that fun friend I had in high school that I could just shoot the shit with. He's that dude I got high with in university and discussed all manner of topics with. Joe is the person who in my professional world, does not (and possibly cannot) exist. I miss the Joes in my life, and I think that's what originally led to me picking up his podcast. Sometimes I'm just tired of all the engineerin…

What misinformation about corona did he spread? It's my understanding that governments all around the world and the WHO were also responsible for spreading massive misinformation at the start of the pandemic. For example, WHO were vehemently against border closures with China and they parroted the CCP's lies of no community transmission in late January (despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary). Even Dr Fauci wo…

Could you provide sources for these statements?

Re: As Joe Rogan’s platform grows, so does the media and liberal backlash – why?

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Post by 0xy »

Naac wrote: post #111
0xy wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What misinformation about corona did he spread? It's my understanding that governments all around the world and the WHO were also responsible for spreading massive misinformation at the start of the pandemic. For example, WHO were vehemently against border closures with China and they parroted the CCP's lies of no community transmission in late January (despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary). Even Dr Fauci wo…

Could you provide sources for these statements?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-05/who-coronavirus-updat...

https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-doesnt-regret-advising...

https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152

Re: As Joe Rogan’s platform grows, so does the media and liberal backlash – why?

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Post by anm89 »

unityByFreedom wrote: post #112

Lol what a loaded title. Rogan is the next shock jock, and this kind of article is built to generate more publicity for him. Not much else to be said. Enjoy it for entertainment- it's not a substitute for journalism.

Except nothing hee does is particularly shocking.

Re: As Joe Rogan’s platform grows, so does the media and liberal backlash – why?

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Post by koonsolo »

donmcronald wrote: post #42

I’ve never really watched Joe Rogan and haven’t followed the current controversy, but I was surprised when Spotify signed his big deal because I knew enough to know he was polarizing. Did Spotify know what they were buying?

The less you know, the easier it is to have a strong opinion.

Re: As Joe Rogan’s platform grows, so does the media and liberal backlash – why?

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Post by unityByFreedom »

anm89 wrote: post #114
unityByFreedom wrote: post #112

Lol what a loaded title. Rogan is the next shock jock, and this kind of article is built to generate more publicity for him. Not much else to be said. Enjoy it for entertainment- it's not a substitute for journalism.

Except nothing hee does is particularly shocking.

Wrong. Check out his subreddit and sort by top or controversial. There's plenty of controversy. It's literally how he got big.

Re: As Joe Rogan’s platform grows, so does the media and liberal backlash – why?

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Post by neonate »

gilrain wrote: post #36
eloff wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, I've got nothing against transgender people. I've got a problem with transgender activists going after people like J.K. Rowling, and trying to deplatform her, for her completely reasonable opinions. Fortunately in her case, she's too successful to deplatform, no publishing company is that stupid to turn her away. I'm also deeply horrified what's happening to young girls especially where they are deciding the…

Wow dude, being trans is not a "contagion of the mind". This is wildly and dangerously hateful.

That's not what the GP said. Let's try to be fair.

Re: As Joe Rogan’s platform grows, so does the media and liberal backlash – why?

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Post by dogma1138 »

Barrin92 wrote: post #40
alexashka wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are you comparing Joe Rogan's 'toxic sludge' to? Let's have a list of programming that's excellent by your standards that also has millions of listeners for each episode for comparison.

I don't listen to that many podcasts. Tyler Cowen has an excellent podcast called Conversations with Tyler, Russ Roberts is a long time podcaster/blogger with a focus on economics, Lex Fridman has a good science/compsci focused podcast and Sean Carroll's Mindscape as well as Ezra Klein's podcast I think have almost always high quality, fairly diverse guests. I'm well aware none of these have the audience that Joe Rog…

Lex and Sean started because of Rogan telling them they should, in fact they pretty much owe most of their audience to him.

Re: As Joe Rogan’s platform grows, so does the media and liberal backlash – why?

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Post by dogma1138 »

JesseObrien wrote: post #79
doopy1 wrote: post #72

I like the JRE podcast a lot, but I come for the guests. Joe Rogan is an entertainer and taking what he says on the podcast as authoritative "news" is poor judgement.

I've always looked at it this way as well. Echoing some other commenters here, I don't understand why he's polarizing. I haven't heard he himself present a lot of polarizing views on things. His guests on the other hand, some are absolutely off the charts in terms of how polar their views are. The reason his podcast is popular is because his guests are almost always interesting and contrary to a LOT of media in our e…

He is polarizing because some people think he is perpetuating what to them is “wrong think”, sadly that notion comes primarily form the more left leaning people in society, the amount of times I’ve heard him described as Alt-Right and thinking really?

What Joe reminds me is of is the era of old school broadcasting where you had giants like Mike Wallace who were willing to interview pretty much anyone of note.

And while Joe’s format is pretty much free form rather than researched guided interview it’s very different than what you have on the media today where you have essentially people form only one side of the spectrum or worse the BBC style of “balance” where on each subject they’ll get the two biggest loons they can find to balance eachother out.

IDGAF that Alex Jones was on his show I didn’t watch that episode because he doesn’t interest me, just like I didn’t watch the episodes with Abby Martin who’s pretty much the left wing version of Jones.

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