284: It's All in Girard, Man

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Canon Press

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to Douglas Wilson's The Plodcast, presented by Canon Press.
0:07.0	Yeah. Yes, God, God, God don't never change.
0:22.3	Welcome to the
0:22.8	the podcast this is episode 284 I'm Douglas Wilson I'm glad you joined us good to have you
0:28.6	So I want to talk today about sort of a shake-up or revolution in the realm of media.
0:37.0	When I was a kid, there were three networks,
0:40.0	ABC, CBS, and NBC, and usually one local station.
0:45.9	And there were the standard newspapers.
0:48.9	So there was big media, dinosaur media, there they were.
0:54.0	Okay?
0:55.0	Then in the 80s, I think it was, you had the rise of cable
0:59.3	and networks like CNN and then MSNBC and then sort of late to the show Fox News which came in sort of on the
1:08.9	right and began to dominate the ratings that was sort of the second tier.
1:15.8	Well, as things developed,
1:18.2	the number one show on Fox News
1:21.9	was Tucker Carlson's show. It was sort of a and Tucker Carlson became
1:27.1	the rock star of cable news opinion, let us call them.
1:33.8	And he had really strong ratings and stuff.
1:36.2	Until a month or two ago,
1:38.8	he was preempturally fired by Fox News.
1:42.2	And there are all kinds, there's all kinds of gossip about what went down there, why that happened and what was going on and was it part of the Fox's settlement with Dominion, the Dominion lawsuit over the voting machines and so on.
1:57.0	But that's not my point here. My point here is that just a short time ago a week or so ago, Tucker began, he when he was
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