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Joe Rogan apologized to Spotify and half-apologized to Neil Young and Joni Mitchell in a row over COVID-19 misinformation
Business Insider ^ | 1/31 | Isobel Asher Hamilton

Posted on 01/31/2022 6:30:03 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica

Joe Rogan has addressed recent criticism that his podcast "The Joe Rogan Experience" has helped to spread COVID-19 misinformation.

A backlash from scientists and health professionals prompted Neil Young and Joni Mitchell to request that their music be taken off Spotify, which owns the podcast.

In a video posted to Instagram Sunday, Rogan said of Young and Mitchell: "I'm very sorry that they feel that way. I most certainly don't want that."

He added: "I want to thank Spotify for being so supportive during this time and I'm very sorry that this is happening to them and that they're taking so much heat from it."

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Philosophy
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To: ProgressingAmerica

He realized he is an employee, not an owner.


81 posted on 01/31/2022 7:18:56 AM PST by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: Jane Long

Maybe he’ll have Neil Young and Joni Mitchell as guests?


82 posted on 01/31/2022 7:19:39 AM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

It sounded more like the kind of crap you say when you’re reaching out and trying to calm things down.

What he said that I found disappointing is that he erred in having guests with a differing opinion on his show right after he had on Drs. Malone and McCullough.

I say he double down and invite the opposition to debate any of the good doctors.....they won’t, thus exposing them.


83 posted on 01/31/2022 7:20:08 AM PST by JudyinCanada (Aim low, avoid disappointment.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica
Joe Rogan is an actor turned podcaster who supports Socialist Bernie Sanders. Neil Young is a Socialist from Canada.

The "artists" pulling or threatening to pull their music from Spotify are ones that didn't make much from it anyway.

Spotify is for younger listeners. Ossify is for old fossils.

84 posted on 01/31/2022 7:20:09 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: dforest

He always claimed to be left.

He also claimed to think, and asked some great questions. He has a gift of being a great interviewer. But ultimately, he took the contract.


85 posted on 01/31/2022 7:20:18 AM PST by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: mac_truck

someone explain to me why Dr Sanjay Gupta is doing PSAs on conservative radio.

the man is a dufus, with some kind of a contract.
telling me how to live a better life...


86 posted on 01/31/2022 7:20:39 AM PST by mylife (France? what can you say? How do you rule a land with 246 kinds of cheese?)
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To: canuck_conservative
That's a valid point, but I don't think it changes anything in terms of what I posted. Regardless of who owns the content, Rogan is very much dependent on Spotify's ability to stay in business for him to get paid out on that contract.

It's sort of like those USFL players back in the 1980s who signed enormous contracts with their teams. It didn't matter if a guy signed a $20 million contract over ten years if the league was going to fold after Year 2 or Year 3 anyway.

87 posted on 01/31/2022 7:22:51 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Mr. Potato Head ... Mr. Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets.")
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To: Alberta's Child

Joe may have stock options.

Spotify stock price got hammered last week.

Most people tend to talk their position when it comes to their own wallet.


88 posted on 01/31/2022 7:24:12 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: SmokingJoe

Talk to me when you have a $100 million contract


89 posted on 01/31/2022 7:24:22 AM PST by Codeflier (Please stop calling these violent totalitarian collectivist Democrats, liberals. )
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To: x
"I'm very sorry they feel that way" is not an apology.

This is hilarious! Everyone responded angrily to Rogan without even reading 66 words into the excerpt.

It's easy to be a fool when all you read is the headline.

90 posted on 01/31/2022 7:24:51 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: dforest

Pretty clear that you read the headline and didn’t read what he actually said.

https://www.instagram.com/joerogan/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=6c467b27-07cc-44d9-b0b9-409c3cd51780

Par for the course these days.


91 posted on 01/31/2022 7:26:06 AM PST by TexasGurl24
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To: Raycpa

“Warning to fellow conservatives. This is a fight between two groups of atheists. There is no place for us on either side of this fight. Best to observe from the distance.”

__________________________________________

Hear, hear! Certainly bears repeating.

Sit back and let them play their influence games. I wouldn’t support any of them because they’re not worth supporting. Their foundations are built on sand.


92 posted on 01/31/2022 7:26:17 AM PST by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Pxzftrnqfrn

LOL! So many clowns just regurgitate headlines and never read a thing further.

https://www.instagram.com/joerogan/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=6c467b27-07cc-44d9-b0b9-409c3cd51780

Par for the course these days.


93 posted on 01/31/2022 7:26:45 AM PST by TexasGurl24
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To: SmokingJoe

YEP!

Many of the people in the trailer park crowd simply are incapable of rational thought beyond the one-liners that they throw up. These clowns simply read whatever the media spins as a headline, and then throw up whatever is the trailer park line for the day.


94 posted on 01/31/2022 7:28:55 AM PST by TexasGurl24
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To: Quentin Quarantino

LOVES Uber leftists Tulsi Gabbard and Michelle Obama. Don’t trust him.


95 posted on 01/31/2022 7:30:42 AM PST by LeonardFMason
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To: Fiji Hill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycfARBsz6_Y


96 posted on 01/31/2022 7:30:44 AM PST by TexasGurl24
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To: mylife

I’ve never bothered stealing any music from this Bruce Springfield guy or this Nels Lifgrun dude.


97 posted on 01/31/2022 7:33:47 AM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Pxzftrnqfrn
No he didn't; he is just revealing himself to be what he is. He has never been a conservative but a Bernie Bro, pro gay marriage, pro LGBTQ causes, pro legalizing of drugs, agnostic left-leaning Libertarian. A former stand-up
comedian/actor/boxing announcer who found his moneymaking niche with COVID-19/vaccine/mandates. This will end at some point and then what? He is no Rush Limbaugh.
98 posted on 01/31/2022 7:34:06 AM PST by bella1 (DeSantis 2024)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Rogan caved, he said he thinks having covid disinformation warnings are a good thing - so now every time he has someone on who doesn’t tow the narrative, everything they say will have a disinformation tag on it.


99 posted on 01/31/2022 7:37:52 AM PST by PMAS (Vote with your wallets, there are 80 million of us - No China made, No Amazon)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

They got to him....not exactly a firm believer in first amendment!!!


100 posted on 01/31/2022 7:39:11 AM PST by ontap
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