"When it comes to personality-based talk shows, podcasts have already achieved parity with AM/FM radio, according to a Westwood One analysis of Edison Research's “Share of Ear” study. It also reports that both adults 18-34 and 25-54 spend more time with personalities/talk shows via podcast than on AM/FM." https://www.insideradio.com/podcastnewsdaily/note-to-radio-personalities-without-a-podcast-strategy-nows-the-time/article_b636a8e0-af82-11ec-8d8b-ab1283ab91a5.html
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Note To Radio Personalities Without A Podcast Strategy: Now's The Time.
When it comes to personality-based talk shows, research shows podcasts have already achieved parity with AM/FM radio, while adults 18-34 and 25-54 spend more time with personalities/talk shows via podcast
From “This Is Not Propaganda”
Peter Pomerantsev
Conspiracy theories have long been used to maintain power. The Soviet leadership saw capitalist and counterrevolutionary conspiracies everywhere; the Nazis, Jewish ones.
But those conspiracies were used to buttress an ideology, whether class warfare for Communists, or race for Nazis. With today’s regimes, which struggle to formulate a single ideology, the idea that one lives in a world full of conspiracies becomes the worldview itself. Conspiracy theory replaces ideology with a mix of self-pity, paranoia, self-importance, and entertainment.
Erdogan, Trump, Putin, Orbán, and the rest invoke conspiracies to explain events, often hinting at them without going so far as stating them directly, which only strengthens the sense that what they are establishing is a more general worldview than any single theory. In Russia, this phenomenon is captured by the catchphrase of the country’s most important current affairs presenter. “A coincidence—I don’t think so!” says Dmitry Kiselev, as he spins between tall tales that dip into history, literature, oil prices, and color revolutions, always returning to the theme that the world has it in for Russia.
And as a worldview it grants those who subscribe to it certain rewards: if all the world is a conspiracy, then your own failures are no longer all your fault. The fact that you achieved less than you hoped for, that your life is a mess—it’s all the fault of the conspiracy. More important, conspiracy is a way to maintain control. In a world where even the most authoritarian regimes struggle to impose censorship, one has to surround audiences with so much cynicism about anyone’s motives, persuade them that behind every seemingly benign motivation is a nefarious, if impossible-to-prove plot, so that they lose faith in the possibility of an alternative, a tactic the renowned Russian media analyst Vasily Gatov calls “white jamming.”
And the net effect of all these endless pileups of conspiracies is that you, the little guy, can never change anything. For if you are living in a world where shadowy forces control everything, then what chance do you have to turn it around? In this murk, it becomes best to rely on a strong hand to guide you. “Trump is our last chance to save America,” is the message of his media hounds. “Only Putin can raise Russia from its knees,” say Trump’s Moscow counterparts. “The problem we are facing today is less oppression but lack of identity, apathy, division, no trust,” sighs Srdja. “There are more tools to change things than before, but there’s less will to do so.”
Peter Pomerantsev
Conspiracy theories have long been used to maintain power. The Soviet leadership saw capitalist and counterrevolutionary conspiracies everywhere; the Nazis, Jewish ones.
But those conspiracies were used to buttress an ideology, whether class warfare for Communists, or race for Nazis. With today’s regimes, which struggle to formulate a single ideology, the idea that one lives in a world full of conspiracies becomes the worldview itself. Conspiracy theory replaces ideology with a mix of self-pity, paranoia, self-importance, and entertainment.
Erdogan, Trump, Putin, Orbán, and the rest invoke conspiracies to explain events, often hinting at them without going so far as stating them directly, which only strengthens the sense that what they are establishing is a more general worldview than any single theory. In Russia, this phenomenon is captured by the catchphrase of the country’s most important current affairs presenter. “A coincidence—I don’t think so!” says Dmitry Kiselev, as he spins between tall tales that dip into history, literature, oil prices, and color revolutions, always returning to the theme that the world has it in for Russia.
And as a worldview it grants those who subscribe to it certain rewards: if all the world is a conspiracy, then your own failures are no longer all your fault. The fact that you achieved less than you hoped for, that your life is a mess—it’s all the fault of the conspiracy. More important, conspiracy is a way to maintain control. In a world where even the most authoritarian regimes struggle to impose censorship, one has to surround audiences with so much cynicism about anyone’s motives, persuade them that behind every seemingly benign motivation is a nefarious, if impossible-to-prove plot, so that they lose faith in the possibility of an alternative, a tactic the renowned Russian media analyst Vasily Gatov calls “white jamming.”
And the net effect of all these endless pileups of conspiracies is that you, the little guy, can never change anything. For if you are living in a world where shadowy forces control everything, then what chance do you have to turn it around? In this murk, it becomes best to rely on a strong hand to guide you. “Trump is our last chance to save America,” is the message of his media hounds. “Only Putin can raise Russia from its knees,” say Trump’s Moscow counterparts. “The problem we are facing today is less oppression but lack of identity, apathy, division, no trust,” sighs Srdja. “There are more tools to change things than before, but there’s less will to do so.”
From the "we promise we aren't alt right" wing of the libertarian movement.
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I blame the Babylon Bee's descent in humor to be responsible for mainstreaming bad jokes in Republican circles. They used to be funny, and now it's just easy jabs with no effort, so morons see the clicks and jump on board.