For a certain sect of people who may not necessarily claim the left or right, it’s been a fascinating couple of decades for the legacy media landscape.
Institutional trust in the establishment media and elected officials are at an all-time low — leading to the rise of independent content creators gaining near-equal footing as the media titans who had monopolized the space in years past.
The meteoric rise of podcasters like Joe Rogan and Theo Von has an almost direct correlation with the fall of the legacy media, and that’s no coincidence.
Rogan, in particular, has become a digital king in the podcast space, boasting a podcast that’s become one of the most popular in the world.
The aspect of Rogan that’s so unique is that, due to his previous endorsement of President Donald Trump leading up to the 2024 election, he’s effectively been branded by the left as a right-wing nutjob.
(To be clear, given his pro-abortion and pro-universal healthcare stances, Rogan is decidedly not a conservative.)
Regardless, because of this Rogan-Trump tie — which honestly appears rather frayed these days given Rogan’s stance against the Iran conflict — Democrats have made it no secret that they’re looking for “their own” Rogan.
And it appears that they’ve chosen the worst possible candidate to fill that role.
In apiecefor the New York Times, contributor Ezra Klein spilled quite a bit of digital ink on the topic of far-left streamer Hasan Piker being the Democratic response to Rogan.
As Klein correctly pointed out, however, Rogan is about as centrist of an independent as one can imagine. The left simply doesn’t like him because he won’t adoptallof their talking points.
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