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Ep. 3389 CNN Begins MASSIVE Layoffs and Cuts— Top Talent Gets the AXE!!! · Turley Talks

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  [SPEAKER_00]: The liberal globalist order is on its brink and awakening a new conservative age.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Dr. Steve Turley joined me every day as we discover answers to today's toughest challenges and explore the re-bondalization of conservative civilization.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is Turley Talks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What if I told you right now as you're watching this video?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Not just one, but two of America's most powerful media empires are literally imploding before our very eyes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's true.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Stick me the very end of this video because I'm gonna show you exactly how we are witnessing the complete and total collapse of the legacy media complex in real time and how that same legacy media is doing everything they possibly can to hide from you just how catastrophic their collapse really is.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let me hit you with some facts that'll blow your mind.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: MSNBC's prime time viewership has plummeted by an astonishing fifty-three percent since the election.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They've gone from one point three million viewers to a pathetic six hundred and thirty-two thousand.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We get more views daily on this YouTube channel than MSNBC gets with their multi-billion dollar budget.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But it actually gets worse.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thankfully for MSNBC, there's another so-called news network that's even more embarrassing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that, of course, is CNN.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They've lost nearly fifty percent of their prime time audiences, well since November, over thirty percent during the course of this year of twenty twenty five.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But that now means that they're sitting at just three hundred and ninety thousand viewers.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One of our single videos.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: can get more views than that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And here's the real kicker.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Here's the real embarrassment.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In their evening prime time coverage, they so-called major news networks are getting beaten by the food network.
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  [UNKNOWN]: I mean, think about that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: More Americans would rather watch someone cook dinner than listen to Anderson Cooper or Circle Back Socky lecture them about climate change.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's not just a ratings decline.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's a total cultural rejection.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Meanwhile, Fox News is absolutely dominating with two point six three million viewers on average per day.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Why?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Because they're actually in touch with reality.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They give their viewers reality instead of lecturing them on pronouns.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, here's where it gets really juicy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Their respective parent companies, both Comcast and Warner Bros.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Discovery, have basically said, we don't want these failing networks anymore.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're just going to spin them off into separate companies.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So Comcast is creating something they're calling spin-co.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: How's that for being subtle, right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Spinco to dump MSNBC in some of their other channels that aren't making them any money anymore.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Warner Brothers discoveries doing the same thing, separating CNN, TNT, TBS, and their other cable properties into a global linear networks division.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Translation, these parent companies are cutting their losses and saying good luck surviving on your own.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's like, it's like when your parents, you know, kick you out of the basement, except in this case, the basement was subsidizing billions of dollars in losses.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, here's where the story gets absolutely delicious.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And no, I'm not talking about the food network.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The man Warner Brothers discovery has chosen to oversee particularly the CNN bloodbath is a fellow by the name of Gunnar Weedon Fells.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, if you don't know who that is,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Weedenfels is the same financial executioner who acts the Batgirl movie fiasco.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Again, you may not have heard of this because it never got released.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Warner Bros.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Discovery had scheduled the rollout of a new Batgirl movie as their latest in the DC Comics movie series, but it was already getting such blowback for its alleged wokeness before it even opened.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And weenfels came in and he was like, he completely acts to
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's because he isn't some Hollywood insider worried about hurt feelings.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He's a German cost-cutting machine who delivered two billion dollars in cost savings in twenty twenty four alone.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And his job is very, very simple.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Take a chainsaw, like Xavier Malay, like chainsaw, to everything that isn't making money and gang.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Guess who's next on the block for this guy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: CNN.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: CNN is about to get chainsawed big time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They've already weathered over two hundred layoffs the beginning of the year and more are coming.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, if you want to know why these networks are failing, just look at what they're paying these clouds.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, financially, just think about what kind of disaster this is.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Anderson Cooper, I kid you not.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Anderson Cooper is pulling an eighteen million dollars a year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Isn't he a Vanderbilt kid to stunning?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jake Tapper is getting seven point five million.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Caitlyn Collins the repulsive Caitlyn freaking Collins is pulling in three to four million a year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Dana Bash is making three million a year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: These people are making more money in a year than most Americans will see in a lifetime and then they have the audacity to lecture us every night about equity and income equality.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Any quality I should say.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But you want to know the best part.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The only person at CNN who's getting a pay raise right now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you know who that is?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Take a guess.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The one and only Scott Jennings, that's right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They're alone.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Token, conservative, regularly destroys those overpaid liberal blowharts on live television every night.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And he's getting a pay raise.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He's the only one.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that, I mean, you want to talk about some sweet irony right there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: CNN itself knows that their loan conservative is basically the only reason why anyone still watches their network.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let that hit you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Even CNN recognizes that it is conservative voices that are keeping their network afloat, barely.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So they're throwing money at him while firing everyone else.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, according to industry insiders, the real blood bath is coming this fall.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Once these networks are officially spun off from their parent companies, they're going to have to survive on their actual revenue instead of being subsidized by more profitable divisions.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's when you most likely see some of the big, so-called talent take a hit here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's what happened to Joy Reed, Jim Acosta, Chris Cuomo, Don Laman, and of course most recently Steven Cober and the canceling of the late night show, that spector is going to come for the wider CNN and MSNBC lineup.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But if you've been with us for some time, you'll know precisely why this collapse was inevitable.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We've been predicting it for years now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's not a matter of if.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: the collapse of the legacy media is only a matter of when.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's because there are two overall converging dynamics playing out here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: First and foremost, the legacy media made a fatal mistake that was absolutely devastating to their bottom line, to their business model.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They embraced what's called advocacy journalism, particularly during the Obama years.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In other words,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The legacy media believed, you know, even though they were always biased, they believed they could completely abandon journalists, standards, starting in the Obama years and become radical partisan activists.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And somehow, at the same time, they presume people would still trust them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So this is key because the business model in the legacy media, or just a news media in general, and a kind of commentary with me, the business model is based on trust.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's based on the notion that we are delivering
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  [SPEAKER_00]: reliably accurate information to you that can pass the truth mustard, right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The media was always supposed and always touted itself to be an objective mediator, hence the term media, an objective mediator of information or at least a reliable mediator of information.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That was the business model.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And what happened is that particularly during the Obama years, again, the media has always leaned left.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's all kinds of reasons for there's been a number of studies on twentieth century media that found from the beginning of the twentieth century onward.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It had this left wing tilt regardless.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: During the Obama years, they assumed they could actually completely abandon journalistic standards, the very standards that elicited the trust that they are reliable mediators of information.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They could abandon those journalistic standards and become rabid partisan left wing partisan activists and yet somehow people would still trust them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We saw it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, and then that went on steroids during Trump's first term.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It had continued through the Biden years.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And now, of course, Trump's glorious second term where they're just all basically eating crow at this point.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But they thought they could lecture half the country.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: call us deplorable, racist, fascists, and that we would just keep watching them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Saying, yeah, I guess you're right, since you're the reliable mediators of information, I guess we are deplorable.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They actually thought, again, there was a certain kind of narcissism here where they thought that they could convince the audience that stuck with them, that Biden's economy was the greatest economy in the history of the cosmos.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But the Southern border was absolutely and totally secure, more secure than even during Trump's years.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that Kamala Harris was going to win in the landslide.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They honestly thought they could get away with supposedly reporting such things.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And guess what?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They didn't.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They didn't.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Their own audience has abandoned them two to one.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They've left.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Trust in legacy media is hitting all time low, just thirty percent according to Gallup.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So that's the first dynamic, the assumption that they could embrace advocacy journalism.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: while at the same time believing that people would still trust them as objective journalists.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, that was not going to happen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, advocacy journalism and objective journalism are mutually exclusive.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They're contradictory.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So they can't exist.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Aristotle would say contradictions are that which rocks dream about.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Just a very inventive way of saying, it's something that can't possibly exist.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But then, that leads to the second dynamic that's happening, conjointly here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that involves the rise of the alternative media, which is now become increasingly the new mainstream media, Elon likes to say that on X, you are the media now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And what this means is that people aren't just changing the channel, they are core cutting entirely.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: More and more they are core cutting.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They're coming to platforms like YouTube, rumble, acts to independent content creators and journalists to podcasts to places where they can actually get honest information, transparent information, be a part of the conversation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's why I always say make sure you let us know what you think down in the comment section below.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You are the media now, right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They can do all that without being talked down to.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Without being talked down to by coastal elites who've never worked a real job in their lives.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And the embarrassing truth in all of this is, while CNN and MSNBC fire hundreds of employees and beg for subscribers, independent content creators are building multi-million dollar businesses with nothing but a camera in the truth.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Joe Rogan gets more viewers in a single podcast episode than these networks can get an entire week.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The beauty of what scholars call the network society.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We talk about that a lot.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Network society is a social, that's what we're living in now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a social order, comprised of the internet, and digital technologies, that network society enables independent content creators to bypass the gatekeepers of the legacy media in a manner comparable to how email and texting bypass the post office.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: While at the very same time, because of the network's design, because of our digitality, because of our shared connectivity and the internet, information has been radically democratized.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There was a time when legacy media outlets had a privileged access to information that we simply didn't have.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And we had to go to them to get that information.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They were once indispensable.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So they once had a legit monopoly over information.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Those days are over.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Post internet, those days are over.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We all now have the same access to the very same information that anyone at CNN or MSNBC has, which means that we're all now in a position to fact check them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's so key to why they are dying.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The people are now in a position to be able to fact-check the self-enointed fact-checkers and we've consistently found them to be wanting.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The legacy media gatekeepers are losing their grip and they're terrified.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They can't control the narrative anymore.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Twenty twenty four proved that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They can't decide what information you're allowed to have.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We the people have spoken.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're speaking with our wallets and we're speaking with our attention.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And we've chosen new media over the corrupt establishment.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Press.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Ultimately, this isn't just about ratings or money.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This really is about the future of information in America.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're watching the final death throws of a system that was actually built to control what you think and how you vote.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When CNN and MSNBC complete their collapse and make no mistake, they will collapse.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It will mark the end of an era.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The era where three networks and a handful of newspapers could decide what stories matter and what stories get buried.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The future belongs to creators who build direct relationships with their audiences.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have corporate overlords telling them what they can or cannot say, who understand that their success depends on providing value instead of propaganda.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Bottom line.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The legacy media is dying because they deserve to die.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They abandon their responsibility to inform the public and decide to become activists instead.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They chose propaganda over truth, ideology, over journalism, and activism over accuracy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The American people have rendered their verdict and it is devastating.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: These networks will either adapt or become irrelevant footnotes in media history.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Based on what we're seeing right now,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think we know which way this is going.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The revolution in media isn't coming.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's already here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And we are winning.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So what do you think?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let us know in the comments section below.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Are you ready to celebrate the collapse of fake news media?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Or do you think these networks can actually somehow save themselves?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let us know in the comments section below.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You're not gonna hear anywhere else.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Love you guys.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: God bless.
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