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🗓️ 29 June 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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0:00.0 | Sup ya beautiful bastards. It's like a billion degrees outside, but I'm still wearing a hoodie because I hate my body that much. |
0:06.8 | Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show. It is Tuesday, June 29th, 2021. Hit that like button and let's just jump into it. |
0:14.0 | And the first thing that we're going to talk about today involves a sentence. I have very rarely been given the privilege of saying without sarcasm, and that is Donald Trump was right. |
0:22.6 | About at least this one thing and not all the other stuff because he's a crazy person, but yeah. |
0:26.6 | Even all the way back in 2017, Donald Trump famously said, and granted the first part of the sentence is wrong, |
0:31.6 | another reason that we're going to win another four years, okay, you're wrong on that part, |
0:35.6 | is because newspapers, television, all forms of media will tank if I'm not there because without me, the ratings are going |
0:42.0 | down the tubes. And that last part, as it turns out incredibly right, but even as I said back |
0:46.8 | in 2020, I welcome that. It's anecdotal, but most of the people I know that voted for Joe Biden |
0:52.4 | just won it off of the crazy train. |
0:54.4 | What's really interesting about this data from ComScore is that while almost everyone has been |
0:57.7 | hit pretty hard, the outlets hit the hardest have been the most extreme. Far left monthly traffic |
1:03.1 | dropping 27.3%, far right, monthly traffic, 43.8%. There you're comparing places like Mother Jones |
1:09.9 | and Newsmax. Then as we come in from the more extremes, but still partisan, we see left-leaning traffic dropping 16.7% right, right? You're comparing boxes to Fox Newses. Also, as far as engagement on social media, we're seeing massive drops there as well. Axios reporting the data from censor tower showing the downloads of fringe rights, social networking apps like Miwi, Rumble, Parlor, and Cloud Hub have plummeted. |
1:31.6 | With data from NewsWIP showing left-leaning and right-leaning publishers have seen social interactions on stories drop by more than 50% |
1:37.3 | While mainstream publishers have experienced a slightly more modest drop of 42% |
1:41.1 | But also, once again, none of this should really be surprising. I mean, |
1:44.6 | think about it, a big part of the reason, especially last year that the ratings were so huge. |
1:48.0 | One, we were all locked inside and we took to the internet and news and that like became many |
1:52.9 | people's world. But also because, too, it felt like every time you look to the internet, you were |
1:56.9 | like, am I, are we going to die? Is the country about to explode? I mean, it's the same reason that people watch live police chases |
2:03.4 | are like the guy that goes over the Grand Canyon |
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