What's up, guys, this is Jacques, and welcome back to Pop Politically Incorrect, the Politically

Incorrect Pop Culture podcast. I have a great show today with an amazing guest from my

fave show below deck, but first, I want to talk about something that has really pissed me off

this week. Since starting this podcast a few months ago, I have been amazed at how differently I've

been treated by PRs and managers and types like that as a podcaster compared to how I've

been treated in my main job, which is a reporter for a big mainstream media outlet.

There is an attitude from some PR peeps, not all, there are some really amazing PR people in the industry

as well, but there's an attitude from some of them that because you're a podcaster that you'll

literally do anything to get access to talent, it's like you're at the bottom of the totem pole

and you should be grateful for any scraps they decide to bestow upon you because you're not

part of old media, which for some reason

is still treated as if it's more important and better than new media and independent media,

which it absolutely is not. And I'm not just talking about myself and my little three-month-old

podcast. I know people with huge shows that still get treated like crap from PRs. Like,

it's not just me. I am going

to be professional about this. I'm going to keep this vague, so I'm not publicly calling

anybody out of their name, because honestly, it's not deep enough for me to, like, name and shame

somebody, but I got the rudest fucking email from a PR recently, and it just encapsulated

everything that's so dodgy and wrong about

these people. It was demeaning, and I felt like it really just questioned my integrity,

like as a journalist and a content creator and a podcaster, and that really set me off.

There was a presumption that I'm just going to jump through hoops like a monkey in the

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