#028 - Dan Wootton - The Death of Mainstream Media
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2024
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
Dan Wootton is a British journalist and broadcaster known for his outspoken commentary and coverage of celebrity and political issues.
In this interview we discuss the growing influence of cancel culture, government censorship, and the woke takeover of mainstream media in the UK. Dan reveals insider insights from his time in mainstream media, how independent platforms are reshaping public discourse, and why the fight for free speech is more critical than ever. We also get into why independent media is gaining traction, how cancel culture silences dissent, and the chilling impact of advertising boycotts on journalism.
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| 0:00.0 | So what happened is, to use an Elon Musk term, the woke mine virus took hold of the advertising industry |
| 0:08.0 | before other industries actually. So this is quite a few years ago. Yeah. That was supercharged in 2020. |
| 0:14.8 | And what had certainly been developing in the advertising industry then became mainstream. And it infiltrated |
| 0:23.6 | virtually all media organisations. And so for me, I knew I needed to get out, but my move was |
| 0:30.6 | to GB News, which was a new venture that was launching in the UK, and I hoped would be an antidote to the mainstream media. |
| 0:40.5 | It sort of went a bit awry because actually what the people behind GB News want to be is they |
| 0:46.7 | want to be the mainstream. They want to change the mainstream, whereas I wanted to get out of the |
| 0:51.0 | mainstream. |
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| 1:41.2 | Pleasure to be here. I'm going to have friends who are going to be happy I'm talking to you. |
| 1:46.7 | I'm going to have friends who are going to be a gas that I'm talking to you. |
| 1:49.9 | What are you doing getting this guy on your podcast? |
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