If you only remember two things about the government pressure campaign to influence Mark Zuckerberg’s content moderation decisions, make it these: Donald Trump directly threatened to throw Zuck in …
  • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    551·
    2 days ago

    Rogan is one of the dumbest people on the planet and got famous making people eat blended rats on TV.

    How the hell did we get to a place where we’re looking to him for legitimate journalism?

    • rational_lib@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      2 days ago

      He was a first mover on podcasts, and already being a reality TV celebrity he got a lot of big guests early on.

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      39·
      1 day ago

      A generation of people used a comedian for news, and now they are mad it’s a different comedian.

      • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        1 day ago

        One of them is an uncritical moron. The other one actually made some salient points on occasion.

    • Free_Opinions@feddit.ukEnglish
      410·
      1 day ago

      He has never claimed to be a legitimate journalist. He has said repeatedly that you shouldn’t take him too seriously - he’s a cage fight commentator after all.

        • Free_Opinions@feddit.ukEnglish
          311·
          1 day ago

          …and? We can’t have people having public conversations online then because some might take it too seriously? I don’t see how this is a criticism towards Joe.

      • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        1 day ago

        Maybe he should shut his mouth instead of just spewing stupid and obvious lies instead of hiding behind lazy shields like I’m NoT a LeGiTiMaTe JoUrNaLiSt or I’m JuSt AsKiNg QuEsTiOnS?

        I hate how people defend stupid celebs spewing obvious lies like this.