Independent media outlets are getting destroyed by YouTube and a pending piece of legislation
could be why that's happening. You and I did this story a while back and it, it, the, the reason
it's such an important story is where you have this corporate media cartel run by three owners,
the big three that own all of corporate media. And the, what they're trying to do is put independent
news, programs just like this out of business. And they're, they're doing a pretty darn good job
of it right now by spreading around billions of dollars to Google and YouTube and saying,
hey, we want to pay our way in and we want you to minimize the impact of independent media.
Right. This is a very weird piece of legislation because it's being sold to the public under a
completely false pretense. Mm-hmm.
It's the journalism competition and preservation act, JCPA.
And what the JCPA says it wants to do is we just wanna level the playing field. We wanna make sure
if, if Facebook or Google, if they're sharing the story from your outlet
that you get compensated accordingly. Mm-hmm.
And so who's gonna determine what appropriate compensation is. Oh, well, let's put together a
panel of these big multimedia companies. You know, you got your New York Times, your Fox news, your
NBCs, they're gonna be the ones who create what they're describing as the media cartel
that gets to set these rates and of course, directly negotiate with these big tech giants.
And we know how that will end if this becomes law. Well, okay, look, I'm, I'm gonna date myself.
Air America, you were working with me all the way back to the Air America days.
You were a producer for Air America. It was Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo, Bobby Kennedy, Chuck D,
just this really, Cenk Uygur, just incredible lineup of, of people that were trying to introduce
progressive radio into the vast market. All right. When we saw, saw this happening back then,
the people who got nervous was corporate media, because we weren't telling the corporate media
stories. We weren't worried about advertisers that are telling us, no, you can't, you can't
do this story about this product that's killing people. We, we didn't worry about it. And so
corporate media has been dumbed down to where not only do they not tell those stories, but now the
American public is seeing that they're not getting really good news from places like CNN or MSNBC
or Fox, because it's so jaded and it's so, it's so arranged. So there's cable cutting taking place
all over the, all over the country right now. Yeah. And those networks do, you know,
to a degree, they walk on eggshells. We can't say anything hyper offensive or else we're gonna
turn off the advertisers. And more importantly, we've gotta make sure it's YouTube ready. That's
the point of these segments. Short, quick, make it to where YouTube cannot object to any of it,
make it broad enough to where it's gonna show up in your suggested feed,
no matter what you're watching. And that really is what is killing the independent media here.
Because we talk about details. Right.
We talk about stories behind the story. And it is all connected too, with this JCPA,
because these outlets understand these corporate media groups are now going to be the ones who are
gonna be negotiating. We gotta keep 'em happy so they don't demand a high price.
Right. What better way to do that
than to push their content and push out independent media. Now.
It's already happening. Well, it is.
If you go, if I go to one of your segments on Ring of Fire, whatever you're talking about,
you would think, okay, Farron is talking about this story. Right.
So, so behind there, if you look at the lineup that comes behind you, it's gonna be MSNBC,
MSNBC, MSNBC, CNN, CNN, CNN, Fox, Fox Fox. Why is that? They're not talking about this topic,
but they're buying their way into, as soon as your video goes off, they are, they're put up there.
Whether somebody wants to, to follow their stupid story or not, it's automatic pilot. That's what
Google and that's what YouTube is doing right now. Right. And, and, you know, I've talked to all
sorts of people that do this on YouTube every single day as well. They've all seen their
traffic decrease. And a lot of it is because you're not showing up in those recommended
videos anymore. We have had plenty of people email us over the last years.
Saying, where are you? Saying I was watching your video. I stepped
away. Now it's CNN. Why, why is this happening? Right.
So it is this algorithmic shift that takes place every so often with YouTube. But every
time it shifts, it's more and more corporate. It's, it's not, look, it's not an accident.
Right. Oh, you got, you've got the big three
spreading so much money around. Google is eating it up. YouTube is eating it up and they say, oh,
we, we don't wanna say this, but oh, by the way, we're gonna put you as the next related story.
MSNBC, you're the next related story. CNN, you're the next related story.
Doesn't matter whether it's related at all. And it, you know, doesn't it make sense if
you do a video and you're doing a story that your next video should come up? No.
That's how it used to be many years ago, yeah. It used to, it used to be like that. But now
corporate media is in charge. Keep, keep cutting your cable. That's the best advice I can give you
because CNN obviously couldn't do this. They, they stream for what? 48 hours or
something like that, then they were gone. All right. Farron, thank you for joining me. Okay.
Thank you. That's all for this week, but
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