Joe Rogan recently slammed “corporate media” and the “deceptive” coverage of Donald Trump’s warning of a “bloodbath,” a point his guest quickly pushed back on via Mediaite.
It has been noted that author and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt joined the Joe Rogan Experience to discuss social media and its influence on younger generations and at one point the conversation turned to the media.
Rogan talked about Trump’s controversial “bloodbath” comment as an example of why people don’t trust corporate media.
Rogan argued:
It’s actually important to highlight how not just inaccurate but how deceptive the media was in their depiction of what he said, and that they are taking this quote out of context and trying to say that there is going to be a civil war if he doesn’t get elected, which is not what he was talking about at all. It’s so disturbing that they would, first of all, that they would think that they can get away with it in this day and age with all of the scrutiny and with social media and with all the independent journalists that exist now, which is one of the more interesting things about the demise of corporate media.
Rogan then shouted out “real ones” journalists like Matti Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald. The former is likely best known for being part of the Twitter Files, and the latter made his name helping to break the story of Edward Snowden whistleblowing on the NSA’s surveillance programs on U.S. citizens.
“The demise in trust. Trust in corporate media is at an all-time low, so this has led to a rise in true independent journalists. The real ones out there. The Matt Taibbi’s and Glenn Greenwalds, the people that are actually just trying to say, ‘what is really going on and what are the influences behind these things and why are these things happening?’” Rogan said.
Haidt then summed up Trump’s argument as, “if i don’t win, the country’s over.”
“Yeah, but what he’s talking about is the subversion of our economy and the subversion of our democracy, that we will never have an election again. I don’t think he’s saying it’ll be a bloodbath in terms of of a civil war. He’s saying the economy’s going to be destroyed,” Rogan said.
“I was listening for that. I was thinking maybe it’s a metaphor, I didn’t hear any — I mean the bloodbath…” Haidt said as Rogan jumped back in.
“It’s an unfortunate term. I don’t think he’s saying it’s a civil war,” the comedian and UFC commentator said.
“It sounded to me like he was. It sounded like if he doesn’t win, there will be violence,” Haidt said, adding you have to give Trump “a hell of a lot of the benefit of the doubt” to believe the comment wasn’t an “aside” referring to violence.
Rogan argued Trump is “full of hyperbole” and he shouldn’t have used the “terrible term.”
“Joe, I don’t think we’re not going to settle this,” Haidt said after some back and forth.
Though he didn’t agree on Trump, Haidt admitted corporate media is losing public trust and it has “violated its duty many times.”
