Joe Rogan talks about how CNN can't and wont be honest with their news ever again

....and it made a great deal of sense when he did so. In an episode that featured Tim Pool on Joe Rogan's wildly popular The Joe Rogan Experience the two sat down to discuss how CNN is extremely well-known to be extremely partisan and will stretch the truth, intentionally use misleading statistics, and always choose a particular one-sided opinion on just about anything they ever cover on the network.

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I didn't listen to the entire podcast or whatever they are calling these shows on Spotify now but I listened to enough to hear something that I thought was a pretty profound insight as to how it is that CNN has gone all in on leftism and is unlikely to come back from it in order to be viewed as an honest source of news. It is an interesting theory from a man who consistently calls himself an idiot, as Joe Rogan often claims, even though I think he is far more intelligent and open-minded than basically any news source out there.

He talked about how CNN saw great success with their constant berating of Donald Trump and this in turn meant more money for the company. When Trump was ousted, they saw their numbers plummet because Trump has mostly stayed a bit out of the public eye since the beginning of this year. In my mind and many other people's this was probably a great opportunity for CNN to continue their attacks on whoever is in power, most notably the rather brain-dead person that is in the White House now... yet they don't, ever. They cover up all of Joe's gaffes as much as possible and instead focus on other conservative voices out there in any way that they can and this is because of the fact that the market is inundated with news sources and CNN's remaining userbase tunes in to CNN specifically to hear things that reinforce what they already desperately want to believe is true. If CNN were to change this strategy and all of a sudden actually made an effort to cover all sides of a story and allow the viewers to make up their own minds, they would risk ostracizing the few viewers that they still have left.

Let's face it, CNN is probably correct in this business strategy because in this day and age, people have a lot of choices about where they are going to get their news. So if someone is a hard core leftist, they NEED something like CNN in order to give them more ammunition for their deeply-rooted ideals. I don't need to just talk about CNN with this, the same thing can be said for almost every other news source out there as well such as the biggest one of them all, Fox News. CNN faces more scrutiny than anyone else because they are under the microscope of being "fake news" but the reality is that virtually every major news source is just as fake as CNN is.

If Fox all of a sudden started to have a lot of liberal talking points and opinions on their shows (they do have some, like Geraldo Rivera) they would risk chasing away their viewers as well. CNN is in a much more vulnerable position than Fox though, because there are MANY MORE liberal news outlets in existence than conservative ones. If CNN were to all of a sudden change their entire format, it could spell the end of the company as a whole.

Honestly, I think that the days of network news are likely going to continue their downward spiral as fewer and fewer people actually believe that they are being told anything other than biased lies, regardless of what network they decide to listen to.

I hate CNN and feel as though anyone that takes what they have to say as gospel is likely a moron who doesn't actually care what the truth is, but simply wants to have some charismatic speaker give them nice catch-phrases so they can repeat these tings in public as if they were their own original thoughts.

However, I realize that CNN has built a maze that they can't possibly get through or dug a hole that they can't get out of. If they were to do an apology tour, admit they were wrong and promised to do better from this point forward and then ACTUALLY DID SO and started doing actual reporting, their echo-chamber followers would probably abandon them and move over to MSNBC or a plethora of other confirmation bias news sources out there that exist.

They will never change the way they are and even though their numbers a dropping dramatically and are basically the laughing stock of the news world, they really don't have much of a choice anymore at this point.

Joe Rogan opened my eyes to this and even though he claims he doesn't know what he is talking about, more sense comes out of this guy than all of the people at CNN combined.... maybe this is why he routinely has an audience many times the size of all of most of CNN's shows combined.

From the one hour or so of the recent interview with Tim Pool there was a of great points made. If you want to listen to it, for free, you can do so here and here. You will need to get a free Spotify account in order to listen though and you can just enter whatever email address you want, it doesn't need to be genuine.