Aidan McLaughlin
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378 appearances
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1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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reality.
And, you know, it can start with the cable news networks.
Yeah.
And I think that one of the problems that I'm I don't know if you've noticed this in your foray onto YouTube as you've built up a nice audience, but there are strong, strong incentives to be partisan.
Yeah, I was talking to a guy that manages a YouTube channel and he said that they started doing really aggressive anti-Trump stuff where every title of every YouTube video is, you know, Trump humiliated and it worked.
And now that's all they do, even though the website that the YouTube page is attached to is a lot more nuanced.
And so I think that there is a gap in the market.
moderate, smart, nuanced conversation.
But as you know, the most important thing is personality.
I think it's a harder hill to climb.
The partisans have it a lot easier.
But if you are going to do nuanced, smart coverage like you do, Dawn, you have to have a good personality.
And not a lot of people that work in cable news are able to carry that on their
Right.
Yeah.
I mean, that's the hard part.
I've always found that it is easier for conservative and right wing voices to go independent.
They have cult-like audiences.
They have extremely obsessive audiences.
And also, if you had previously worked in legacy media, let's say you worked at the New York Times or at ABC News, and you go independent, the audience that loved watching you on ABC is just going to continue watching ABC News, where if Tucker Carlson leaves Fox News, he's going to be able to find an audience independently.
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