Joe Rogan and the Fifth Estate: How the Podcaster and a Group of Cable News Exiles Became More Powerful Than Traditional Media
variety.comJoe Rogan, Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson help tip the scales for Donald Trump’s win over Kamala Harris — and shatter the paradigm of an influential fourth estate in the process?
As far as CNN commentator Andrew Yang is concerned, the answer is yes. On Nov. 7, while conducting a postmortem with Van Jones on the cable news network, the former Democratic presidential candidate derided the Harris campaign’s decision to snub the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast. “And they turned it down because she was too busy?” Yang scoffed.
Instead, Trump hit Rogan’s Austin, Texas, studio in the final days of the campaign, racking up a massive audience. “On YouTube alone, … 48 million views,” Jones marveled.
On a night when Harris could have fielded easy questions about some of Rogan’s favorite topics — from the benefits of psychedelics to the existence of extraterrestrial life — she chose to make a surprise visit to “Saturday Night Live” for a 90-second cameo.
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