People who do podcasts are seeking popularity for several reasons. A big one is that they get paid based upon the number of followers.
Thus, they tend to exaggerate and sensationalize to get more followers.
“People who do podcasts are seeking popularity for several reasons. A big one is that they get paid based upon the number of followers.
Thus, they tend to exaggerate and sensationalize to get more followers”
I think you skipped some steps in your logic here.
Let us go through this slowly.
Podcasters have two main duties.
These choose guests.
They question those guests.
So if they want to “exaggerate and sensationalize” they could either choose guests who do that or ask questions that do that.
In the case of Shawn Ryan his interviews are among the best I have heard—very fair and focused on getting the information out there.
If his guest chooses to “exaggerate and sensationalize” that is on them, not Shawn Ryan.
Many of the most popular podcasts got that way by being fact based and not “sensational”—by filling gaps that are not filled by the mass media.
They conduct in depth interviews with people instead of thirty second soundbites like the mass media uses.
Imho it is the mass media that sensationalizes and exaggerates—much more than most podcasters out there.
The folks being interviewed are giving their opinion—the burden is on the viewer/listener to research the issue further.