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The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces

www.mediamatters.org The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces

As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, the influence of this media ecosystem becomes more prominent — and Media Matters has found that the most popular of this content is overwhelmingly right-leaning.In a new study, Media Matters assessed the audience size of popul...

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The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces

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I’ll believe Joe Rogan and comedians like Theo Von (who I grew up with, incidentally) have a big audience but who the fuck listens to all those other people? Podcasts aren’t like the AM radio of yore where people listened to Rush Limbaugh and then just passively listened to whomever was next. Most conservatives I know who are into talk radio listen to sports stuff like Bobby Hebert bitching about the Saints to calm down after a loss.
ESPN radio parodied it so maybe my experience is different. https://youtu.be/lb-FL5j3FTU
- It looks like a lot of these are people mostly on YouTube so they will be passively listening to whatever auto-play picks for them next.
  The main audience for these isn't the boomer conservative listening to talk radio on his way home from work. These are younger men listening to it in the background while they play video games. Hell they have asmongold on here and from what I can remember he was just a WoW streamer a couple years ago.
  
  I went to summer camp and high school with Theo Von Kurnatowski and he’s a good dude. I took Art III with him and he wrote poetry. He’s probably the same person in private now but all the incentives in the “talk radio” podcast industry are to be the next Joe Rogan.
  
  I mean, people change but if he’s right wing now, it’s going to take us a generation to clean their mess up.

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