This “presenting both sides” bullshit. Sometimes there are just not “both sides”
You don't have some lunatic on your show to present "the side" calling for all blue eyed blonde haired people to be murdered because this guest says they eat Christian babies for lunch, and THEN another person who says this is horrible, dangerous and entirely wrong…You don’t present “both sides” of this discussion if you yourself aren't a grifting loon thirsting for money. You don’t find a middle ground, where you only kill a few blue eyed, blonde haired people. Some people enjoy giving racists, the violent, the mentally ill, “equal time”. If 99% of the facts are on one side, 99% of the content should be there as well. That's "balanced". Some people in today's world invent controversy and conspiracy in the face of facts for fame and money, that's what people seem to assume should be done these days.
I guess there’s nothing wrong with having a guest who advises drinking your own urine to cure Covid-19, as long as you come back later to interview an expert infectious diseases doc who says not to.
Nothing meaningful comes from presenting "both sides" of these types of discussions. They are dangerous to groups of people who want to believe. There's a lot of quacks, grifters and plain nutjobs challenging scientists and public health experts to debates these days. If you’re a smooth-talking charlatan who’s talented at Gish galloping, you can “win”. Real scientists and doctors are doing real work and not clowning around on podcasts arguing with known grifters.
Yes, I know it’s all about the clicks, the entertainment, the eyeballs on screen… basically the money. I’m just so fucking tired of contrarian attention whores using the excuse of “presenting both sides” when what they really mean is “I like money”
Rogans only sorry because he's "pissed off". Not because he's spread dangerous and false medical information in a very delicate era of powerful internet grifters and politicians, when these kind of things can literally cause death. Public speech has public consequences.
Joe Rogan - : "8 months ago if you said you could still catch COVID after getting the vaccine, you would have been BANNED from social media" Where the hell does he come up with this shit?
Spotify paid Joe Rogan 100 million dollars. Spotify advertises that the only way to listen to Joe Rogan is with Spotify. But they also seem to want to be not responsible for anything he and his guests says, and any consequences after. Thats like me giving a 3 year old a loaded handgun in a crowded room and then saying I'm not responsible if anybody gets shot. But ..hey, at the end of the day.... If You think guy Rogan is awesome and do what he and his grifting guests suggests you should, and you end up dead or injured? Knock yourselves out. He's basically just a grifting shock jock that makes money by being controversial. He can't abandon that technique because it's what has made him successful. His apology and appeal to "differing viewpoints" is pure deflection from the core issue that he needs to be controversial in order stay popular with his audience.
You don't have some lunatic on your show to present "the side" calling for all blue eyed blonde haired people to be murdered because this guest says they eat Christian babies for lunch, and THEN another person who says this is horrible, dangerous and entirely wrong…You don’t present “both sides” of this discussion if you yourself aren't a grifting loon thirsting for money. You don’t find a middle ground, where you only kill a few blue eyed, blonde haired people. Some people enjoy giving racists, the violent, the mentally ill, “equal time”. If 99% of the facts are on one side, 99% of the content should be there as well. That's "balanced". Some people in today's world invent controversy and conspiracy in the face of facts for fame and money, that's what people seem to assume should be done these days.
I guess there’s nothing wrong with having a guest who advises drinking your own urine to cure Covid-19, as long as you come back later to interview an expert infectious diseases doc who says not to.
Nothing meaningful comes from presenting "both sides" of these types of discussions. They are dangerous to groups of people who want to believe. There's a lot of quacks, grifters and plain nutjobs challenging scientists and public health experts to debates these days. If you’re a smooth-talking charlatan who’s talented at Gish galloping, you can “win”. Real scientists and doctors are doing real work and not clowning around on podcasts arguing with known grifters.Yes, I know it’s all about the clicks, the entertainment, the eyeballs on screen… basically the money. I’m just so fucking tired of contrarian attention whores using the excuse of “presenting both sides” when what they really mean is “I like money”
Rogans only sorry because he's "pissed off". Not because he's spread dangerous and false medical information in a very delicate era of powerful internet grifters and politicians, when these kind of things can literally cause death. Public speech has public consequences.
Joe Rogan - : "8 months ago if you said you could still catch COVID after getting the vaccine, you would have been BANNED from social media" Where the hell does he come up with this shit?
Spotify paid Joe Rogan 100 million dollars. Spotify advertises that the only way to listen to Joe Rogan is with Spotify. But they also seem to want to be not responsible for anything he and his guests says, and any consequences after. Thats like me giving a 3 year old a loaded handgun in a crowded room and then saying I'm not responsible if anybody gets shot. But ..hey, at the end of the day.... If You think guy Rogan is awesome and do what he and his grifting guests suggests you should, and you end up dead or injured? Knock yourselves out. He's basically just a grifting shock jock that makes money by being controversial. He can't abandon that technique because it's what has made him successful. His apology and appeal to "differing viewpoints" is pure deflection from the core issue that he needs to be controversial in order stay popular with his audience.
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