{"id":1288451,"date":"2022-02-10T07:58:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T12:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1288451"},"modified":"2022-02-10T13:08:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T18:08:02","slug":"its-not-parody-cnn-really-cant-figure-out-why-joe-rogan-is-so-popular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-not-parody-cnn-really-cant-figure-out-why-joe-rogan-is-so-popular\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Not Parody, CNN Really Can\u2019t Figure Out Why Joe Rogan Is So Popular"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fits-not-parody-cnn-really-cant-figure-out-why-joe-rogan-is-so-popular%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1288451&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/CNN-1-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>CNN is determined to figure out why Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast \u201cThe Joe Rogan Experience\u201d is so darned popular, with millions of listeners around the world. To help crack the case, the media company comprised of journalism graduates and fearless truth-tellers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/don-lemon-praises-jeff-zucker-we-lost-the-man-who-was-the-backbone-the-glue-and-the-spirit-of-this-company\">as Don Lemon might say<\/a>, interviewed two \u201cexperts\u201d as to why Rogan has such a loyal following.<\/p>\n<p>The segment sounded like a parody as it offered the most basic of advice for straight-news journalism \u2014 which CNN supposedly partakes in on a daily basis. In short, CNN\u2019s guests reported back that Rogan is successful because he interviews people across the political spectrum, trusts his audience to make up their own mind, and is entertaining thanks to his background in comedy.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s it. That\u2019s the secret sauce for the JRE. It\u2019s not really a surprise, but to CNN it deserved its own spotlight and film production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Rogan is one of the most popular podcast hosts in the world, despite a series of controversies. CNN Business spoke with a researcher who has studied his appeal to explain why his audience loves him,\u201d CNN tweeted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Rogan is one of the most popular podcast hosts in the world, despite a series of controversies. CNN Business spoke with a researcher who has studied his appeal to explain why his audience loves him <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nfTWkhKeFn\">https:\/\/t.co\/nfTWkhKeFn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ISe2AXGtqY\">pic.twitter.com\/ISe2AXGtqY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CNN (@CNN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN\/status\/1491460324108771330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cJoe Rogan hosts one of the most popular podcasts in the world,\u201d a voice over says over a montage of Rogan saying that he is not an anti-vax person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut despite his claims, he has used his platform to make false and inaccurate statements about COVID-19 and vaccines,\u201d the narrator continues.<\/p>\n<p>Rogan is then heard saying that if \u201cyou\u2019re a healthy person and you\u2019re exercising all the time, and you\u2019re young, and you\u2019re eating well..I don\u2019t think you need to worry about this,\u201d in reference to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The narrator claims that despite false claims like that as well as a racist jokes \u2014 for which Rogan apologized \u2014 he remains \u201cwildly popular.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question is, why?\u201d the narrator said.<\/p>\n<p>To figure out how in the world Rogan has an audience, CNN interviewed Gabriel Wisnewski-Parks, a research fellow at University of North Carolina at Greensboro.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve probably spent hundreds of hours listening to Joe Rogan,\u201d Wisnewski-Parks said in the video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat makes him so magnetic to his audience is his very vocal resistance to tribalism,\u201d the research fellow explained. \u201cThis is somebody who can have on his podcast Ben Shapiro and Alex Jones, and have deep and interesting, meaningful conversations with them and then in one other breath he can have on Cornell West and Bernie Sanders and do the exact same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd this really resonates with people,\u201d Wisnewski-Parks had to explain to CNN. The UNC at Greensboro also said his background as a comedian should not be underestimated in its appeal either.<\/p>\n<p>Another guest whom CNN interviewed explained that Rogan does not edit and produce his conversations the way some outlets do. Audiences tend to like not being forced into one line of thinking, she told the network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Rogan does have these off-the-cuff conversations, and I think that there\u2019s a reason why that format has become so popular.\u201d Kat Rosenfield, a cultural writer, also told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe audience feels they\u2019re being trusted to draw their own conclusions,\u201d Rosenfield said of JRE. \u201cAnd that stands in really stark contrast to the way that a lot of other outlets have sort of shifted in the direction of covering the news, and analyzing the news, in the way that really feels like they\u2019re pushing the audience towards making the proper conclusions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, \u201cJoe Rogan\u2019s podcast absolutely has the potential to be dangerous,\u201d Wisnewski-Parks concluded,\u201d\u2026but it can be just as dangerous if we\u2019re going to start censoring because we need to figure out how to keep open those lines of communications in a way that is both critical and willing to question Joe Rogan\u2019s authority but at the same time recognizes that his appeal and popularity are already entrenched in his audience \u2014 and that\u2019s not going anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnns-camerota-spouts-im-out-of-ideas-for-what-to-do-about-joe-rogan\">reported<\/a> that CNN\u2019s Alysin Camerota was \u201cofficially out of ideas\u201d as to what to do about Joe Rogan as the podcaster continued on without being canceled and banished from society as so many on the left want to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Considering that Rogan has about 11 million listeners per episode while CNN often doesn\u2019t have 2 million viewers per day, maybe all she and her colleagues at CNN should do is try to copy his practice of interviewing guests on all sides of a given issue, allowing the audience to make their own decisions, and bringing with then a sense of humor each day to the television screen.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN is determined to figure out why Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast \u201cThe Joe Rogan Experience\u201d is so darned popular, with millions of listeners around the world. 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