Jones fretted that streamers and podcasters are bringing in views that cable news cannot come close to touching.
Online news channels like TYT get way more viewership than CNN or CNBC. Hell, even smaller YouTube channels have better viewership.
People are sick of the corporate bootlicking crap. There’s major right wing channels funded by billionaires, there’s corporate channels that are dying off, and there’s left wing channels funded by viewer small dollar donations.
People don’t like being lied to? Weird.
No, people love being lied to, they just want their flavor of lies whispers into their ears and nothing else. They don’t want news, they want affirmations that they’re right all the time.
And that’s what social media and a lot podcasters, like Rogan, do.
Very much so. There is also this concept of groupthink. Basically, if a few loud people online or bot accounts support a particular opinion, then people see that & their viewpoint becomes similar to how they think others view the issue. We are generally taught to try to fit into society, so if people believe that society thinks or feels a certain way, then they will often try to follow suit. Especially if they see others being ostracized for having a different viewpoint. However, that doesn’t mean that the viewpoint was right or correct. As we see throughout history, the general public can often have very different ideas than the innovators & independent thinkers. I’d much rather we teach people to be authentic to themselves & to reach their own conclusions, and stop grouping everyone into two sides that must agree on everything.
Are we supposed to weep that van jones’ employers are losing market share? The news is almost completely editorial now anyway, masquerading as news. What did they think would happen?
