Posted on 12/20/2024 9:40:07 AM PST by EnderWiggin1970
Last week, a cable news pundit struggled to understand the new media landscape. So he sought advice from his teenage son.
He asked the youngster to name the most influential people in the world today.
Can you guess the names he picked? Here’s what happened:
I’m thinking to myself he’s going to say Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Jay-Z.
He says Kai Cenat, Adin Ross, Jynxzi, and Sketch. I don’t know who he is talking about.
I said ‘What platforms are you on?’
He said ‘I’m on Twitch, Kick, and Rumble.’
I said ‘That sounds like you need to go to the hospital.
What are these platforms? I’m telling you guys, the mainstream has become fringe, and the fringe has become mainstream….
There are people out there that are getting 14 million streams. And we are on cable news getting one or two million.
This is the new reality. The future of media has arrived—but people above a certain age won’t even recognize the names.
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propagana is now propaganda
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I have never heard of any of these names—and I listen to a a wide variety of (mostly non-political) podcasts.
If you go to this web site there are seventy million different podcasts—crazy times:
Are you serious? Seventy million?
Yes—at the link—seventy million—search for your favorite hobby or interest—there will be plenty to choose from...
I post links to a lot of different podcasts and videos that I think may be of interest to folks here.
But—even here people have a very wide range of topics that interest them—and what I may find fascinating may be boring or irrelevant to someone else.
My 14 yr old who watches zero TV and doesn’t know who or what ABC, CBS, FOX or NBC are, recognized all of them.
At the beginning of the coverage of the 2024 election, former US Senator Heidi Heitkamp was on NBC (I believe). She was talk about the all but inevitable election of VP Harris.
She talked about the low turnout of white males between 20 and 30 and indicated that Joe Rogan’s interview and subsequent endorsement of President Trump was of no consequence. She was completely out of touch and I doubt she knew much about Rogan and his influence with young white males.
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