Who’s the “mainstream media” these days?
The traditional (i.e. up to maybe a year ago) answer would be: it’s the New York Times, the Washington Post, CBS, NBC, the BBC and so on. In Canada it would certainly include the CBC, the Toronto Star and that other “national newspaper” (the name slips my mind).
Wrong then, and certainly wrong now. Measured by audience, influence, whatever metrics you want to use as a gauge of a dominant “mainstream” media operation, the answer today surely must include, maybe even start with, Joe Rogan.
Rogan has demonstrated a tendency to bend with the wind in the past.
He has become a celebrity talk show host (Interview with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck) and consequently a part of the establishment media.
In 2 or 3 years he’ll be the new Howard Stern.
