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I prefer the Crooked Media shows, especially Pod Save America. But I usually check out the most recent MeidasTouch when I’m all cought up with my podcasts.
I’ve been listening to pod on an off for years. Quality is always there and they’re upfront about their positions so I feel like I’m listening to actual discussion, not someone trying to convince me. I need to check out MeidasTouch I guess
I used to listen to pod save America but got turned off in 2015. I’ve always felt they were too much of the pearl clutching DNC type. I like medias more than something like chapo trap house. I generally don’t like things that talk about current events though. The ones I like are just preaching to the choir and don’t really accomplish things for me.
Why don’t they list MeidasTouch in the headline?
Better title: “Pro-America podcast MeidasTouch dethrones shitty pro-donvict podcast in the charts”
Eeeeh. I can’t be the only one who won’t touch something described as “pro-America” with a ten foot pole.
I think it’s a mistake to let the right winger take claim to everything related to patriotism and national symbols.
I will say, before the election, i was watching them pretty hard. I dropped it for my own mental health after the election though. I wasn’t a huge fan of Ben Meiselas because he became more and more sensational but I really liked Michael Popoks legal commentary. I felt like Ben started shading into the tone and repetition patterns of the far right podcasters but either way, they both always had their facts straight and everything they said and predicted was backed by evidence and legal experience. Popok is a smart fuckin dude though.
Also, I’d say they’re “pro democracy” as that’s the line they always pushed unless it changed after the election.
If you want to ease into it just check out Popoks stuff as it’s way more objective. I learned so much about the legal/judicial system from him and it was all validated by other sources.
I’m still subscribed but otherwise I share your thoughts exactly. Is also how I heard of the gal defending Luigi, I really enjoyed her stuff with Popok. I still feel like I can’t get back into any of it anymore though. Like what does it matter if everything they say is factually accurate if at the end of the day the law doesn’t matter and facts don’t seem to matter.
Agree popok is the juice on that channel. Agnifilo used to be there a lot too
Aww, did she leave? She didn’t have popoks stage presence but she was still sharp as fuck
newsweek.com, a known right wing source, thats why.
Any nothing of value was created or destroyed.
I think this is the chart they are talking about, if anyone’s curious.
womp womp, isnt that what the right wingers say… Only they originally said it about a story about seperating an “illegal imigrant” 10 year old girl with downs syndrome from her parents and keeping her in a cage, if I recall correctly. And then they refused to apologize for it.
Not only that, but they very much acted like they were the ones who were owed an apology
Hmm, one success speaks more to that one podcast’s popularity than a political shift.
Is that his wife smiling menacingly to the right of the thumbnail?
Bias fucking bullshit. Why is Joe Rogan named and not the podcast that usurped him? Media fucking blows
They name it in the first sentence, and at least for me, given it’s longevity and word of mouth I know what Joe Rogan implies, but if you said “MeidasTouch” in the headline, I’d have no idea the implication of that shift, since I haven’t listened to either of the two.
You can do both in a title.
If they just put the name I would have no idea who they are. Writing the full name plus “,an anti-Trump podcast” would be a really long title with extra info they get in the first sentence.
Wanting to stop at the headline is a bad habit. Just click the article and complain if the name isn’t right there.
“Anti-Trump podcast MeidasTouch dethrones Rogan in charts”
That’s two fewer words than the original headline. 🤷♂️
Be that as it may, we know that the majority of readers wouldn’t read past the title. Knowing this, NewsWeek still decided to not include the name of the anti-trump podcast which dethroned Joe Rogan’s podcast. I think this is the bias that they are referring to.
You can, but clickbait rags want you to click to find out what they intentionally left out of the title.
Wdym? It literally says the podcast name is “The MeidasTouch Podcast” in the first sentence.
Per the other comment, headlines. Internet dwellers read the headline to decide whether or not to read something. You can think of a headline as involuntary information injection.
So Newsweek wants everyone to see Joe Rogan’s name but not MeidasTouch.
Headlines are important
Do we have a source other than newsweek?
They listed the source in the first sentence.
From Podscribe. Scroll down to “Top Podcasts by Downloads & Views per Month”. It’s a shame Newsweek didn’t show their work.
If only they would bother to vote.
That’s where you come in my friend. It’s going to take boots in the ground and hard work to get people to vote. I’m going to do my part, I hope you will to. 💙
Let’s see if there’ll be another chance.
Wish this podcast got attention before the election.
Just listened a bit. These guys deep dive quite a bit, but I hope that this bump is from people who are previous Trump voters that now realize how fucked they are by Trump and get angry.
Do they actually do interviews with experts? Or is it just two dudes pretending to be experts and presenting (mis)information
Jon Stewart’s podcast is also good if you want interviews with experts. He also gets far more nerdy and into the weeds in his podcast than he ever was allowed to on TV or streaming
Yes they do. They also interview a lot of the Democratic congress critters. The lawyer that represents Luigi has been a regular contributor to the Meidas Touch for the last year or so.
Unlikely. Trump is a cult. He can do no wrong.
Not with that attitude. But go off! keep perpetuating it
What else could he do that he hasn’t already done?
Apologize and show humilty and remorse for his actions and those he’s insipred and enabled?
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“Heil Satan!”
Might lose 3% of his cultists. The rest will be “I’ve always been cool with Satan, just like Russia!”
Leave Satan out of this.
Shit, I think we’ve all been asking ourselves that on a regular basis for years now and here we are still regularly surprised.
And would it harm him? Probably not.
It’s been 9 years and an unfathomable amount of indictable behaviors in broad daylight recorderded in 4K… I’m done holding out hope for these people, they are sick.
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He’s created that in large part because of the media environment around him. Many republicans were upset and outraged on Jan 6th until they heard the fox news, rogan, etc line
Change the media consumption and a lot will follow from there. Changes to which media are more dominate are going to matter more than people think
According to Podscribe.
Which collects data from more than the single-source Spotify.How the fuck did Klandace get such a boost?
By having a black female, the right can point to a single source when accused of being either racist or misogynist. No longer do they need to remember two separate podcasts to affirm they are neither racist nor misogynistic. That leaves them much more time to beat off to JRE and his clones and lesser offspring.
Probably by buying subscribers like Shapiro did. Pump the numbers up, get a boost for the algo, get more clicks.
Ugh Ben Shapiro is that high?
For me it’s the recent percentage in increased subscribers. Is Ben Shapiro better/worse than Rogan? Isn’t he branded as a more “intellectual” to those who listen to both? F.
Candace Owens is higher…
candace dick fit in my ass
Wait a minute … THIS IS THE BAD PLACE!
@WhatAmLemmy figured it out? @WhatAmLemmy?
Yeah, this is a low point! This one hurts!
Made me audibly laugh in my head
That shaved ape moron Dan Bongino is that high? Times is bleak
Podcasts are thinking for people who can’t read.
I’m making a rather cruel joke, but I do find some friends who struggle (lazy / busy, I’m not sure why) to read a news article I might share with them and, who will share with me some 20 sec Instagram clip with the words flashing up with Peterson or Rogan “slamming”, “owning”, “destroying” the libs. A quick Google usually dispels the quote or shows that the subject is not so simple.
I should also add I do listen to podcasts and radio and there’s nothing wrong with both.
I don’t have time to read…I’d love to but I can’t. Gotta mortgage slave and take care of/support a crotch goblin
Broke: Joe Rogan pwning the libs
Woke: TrueAnon pwning the libs
I’m these people. Probably read like 7 books in my life but dozens of audio books 🤣. I get distracted while reading a book. Can crush audio books when I’m cleaning or driving though.
Audiobooks count. You’re still getting exposed to the same, long, fleshed-out ideas in story form.
Surprised hoe has anytime to podcast while he is dick riding musk and his billionaire pals
Surprised hoe!
Meh. Dumb voters will just flock to the next trigger topic.
You’re not wrong but any cultural shift like this is enough to cling to optimism. If/when the fast food catches up to Trump and he croaks JD Vance will be the one trying to defend these trash policies. Him (or anybody else) are not going to be as effective bullshit artists…
LOOK HOW DESPERATE I AM FOR GOOD NEWS. LET ME HAVE THIS!!!
The Republicans aren’t looking for leadership or ideas, they’re looking for a strong man who beats his chest at “Soy boy rivals”
Vance… aint that guy
Listen. It’s not just dumb voters. It’s a conservative propaganda vessel that funds any right-leaning talking points. It’s madness being poured into any willing ear, all it takes is a little fear to let them in. I want to believe that individual volition trumps this by-the-numbers propaganda, but the proof is in the pudding. Make people scared and isolated and you can make them believe whatever shit you want (at least, on a macro scale)
Totally. I know plenty of people who would be considered smart by any standard, but when you’re mainlining propaganda every hour, of every day, for multiple decades… it’ll twist a person.
And it’s everywhere!
Don’t trust the mainstream media they say, but these days Facebook, YouTube, instagram, etc have billions of users worldwide. Those are mainstream media.
So in a way they’re right, but they seem to think Facebook and YouTube are some hot new thing and they can be trusted because they’re not part of “the establishment” or whatever. Those of us who were around since the beginning saw the decline from cat-video-sharing-platform to propaganda outlet. Hopefully more people start realizing it.
100%.
When I think about it for a while, my thoughts always come back to “What is truth? What is a fact? Why do I think my news consumption is more factual than this person’s news consumption?”
I’m not a philosopher, and I think it’s a tricky question to answer. I’ve found myself on the Stanford Philosophy Wiki. There’s a ton of good stuff in there.
Of course, on a practical level, you’re rarely going to be debating “what is a fact?” when you’re arguing with your MAGA relations. My “normal” answer is that I try to get my news from sources that have reputations for fact-checking / rigor (AP / Reuters etc etc).
However, if you’ve spent all your time consuming Fox / Newsmax / AM Radio in the late 90s / aughts, your mental model of AP / Reuters is not my mental model. Anything outside of your right-wing bubble is to be shinned. To you, AP and Reuters do not have a reputation for rigor. They’re part of a liberal conspiracy funded by the government and George Soros to demonize conservatives / brainwash the libs.
It’s a tricky problem. I feel like we’re in an era where the Dawn of the Internet / Social media is analogous to the advent of the printing press. We just don’t know how to handle the firehose of information.
There’s a huge part of me that thinks that recommendation algorithms need to be regulated.
Honestly, where it really breaks down for me is how they constantly portray other people as villains and tell you what their beliefs are.
There is no problem with gay rapists, immigrant murderers, trans baby-eaters, etc etc. No more than any other segment of society anyway.
I was taught not to always believe what others say about… others. If you want to know where someone stands, talk to them, don’t take a 3rd party’s word for it.
Although that doesn’t apply to people who confirmed super-liars.
You make a really excellent point.
Something similar is playing out with DOGE finding “waste” and “fraud.” Very little in the say if of evidence, much in the way of waving around papers at a press conference / shitposting on Twitter and screeching “Woke DEI spending has been slashed.”
Tbh, I get it. I understand why it works. Most people aren’t political junkies. Most people don’t really follow the news. They’re busy just trying to get through their day.
That said, I read a good comment once- “You might not care about politics, but politics cares about you.” I only wish more people understood that. Unfortunately, our economic system works against it.
Random aside, I wish we had strong labor unions in the US. They’d be very beneficial at this time.
Change conservative to liberal, right leaning to Democrat and you’ve just described MeidasTouch. They’re nothing but mouthpieces for the DNC. The way that people like Rogan were mouthpieces for the RNC.
