

"In today's world of fake news, fake facts, and untethered souls, people are looking for something to hold onto," said technology analyst Josh Crandall of Netpop Research. It isn't likely that Rogan's ratings will suffer even as he is being called out. "We have a content policy and we do remove pieces that violate it," added Ek.Ĭomedians have generally not called out one another – and Rogan has become a power player of sorts thanks to his popular podcast, but that didn't stop comedian/singer Brian Gaar from suggesting, "Joe Rogan is Alex Jones with a better agent." "What I will say is we have 8 million creators, and hundreds of millions of pieces of content," Spotify CEO Daniel Ek told Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw on the matter.

To date Spotify, which hosts the podcast, has also stood by Rogan. He is certainly a student of the no press is bad press school of thought." "Some advertisers might care, but this is a guy who has grown a following by being controversial.

"It could make an impact with advertisers, but as he already has such a large following it isn't likely to have an impact," Steinberg noted. "He already has a loyal audience and the chatter isn't going to result in the loss of his fan base," added Steinberg. "Rogan has shown how it is increasingly possible to get attention under the purview of free speech even as it tests the boundaries of what is free speech or at least good taste," said futurist and trend expert Scott Steinberg. Joe Rogan seems to be one," noted blogger Matthew Sheffield is unlikely that any of those calls for his firing will be heeded. Unfortunately, many people have come away w/the faulty idea that science is just a bunch of opinions. "The COVID experience should have taught us that science is about continual revision and hypothesis.
