Episode 212 - A Hard Yarn about Clown Repellent - ft. Daniel Morrison

About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of media and citizen journalism on public perception and culture wars, featuring guest Daniel Morrison.

If Daniel wrote these shownotes they would be much nicer. But honestly, this was exhausting. Listening to people who just ramble on about things they know nothing about is tiresome. I don't know how people listen to this for pleasure. It's a genuine waste of time. But Daniel knows all about it. The dopamine hits. The self righteous anger. The feeling of tribalism. It's all baked into the piece. And while nobody seems to actually listen to their longform podcast (their listenscore is average at best), they get huge amounts of reach by making snappy little reels for social media. Reels like the one where they read out an email from the WikiLeaks/Podesta breach better known as 'Pizzagate' - except they don't read out what the emails actually say. Is this intentional or accidental? That's hard to tell. But there's one thing that's easy to see - especially for anyone familiar with DMs work - these unwitting clowns are doing the bidding of billionaires who have pushed an agenda through 'citizen journalists' and astroturf media outlets to destroy faith in institutions and create culture wars to distract us from their efforts to pillage the world for insane amounts of money. The greatest…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jack the Insider, Joel Hill

Guest: Daniel Morrison

Topics covered

• podcasting
• media criticism
• culture wars
• billionaires
• citizen journalism

Keywords

• podcast
• media
• Pizzagate
• tribalism
• billionaires
• culture wars
• citizen journalists

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