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When my most trusted source for news is a jagoff nightclub comedian, the mainstream news media has a problem
By Kent R. Kroeger (April 23. 2018)
CNN is engaged in a smear campaign against YouTube podcaster Jimmy Dore, host of the self-titled The Jimmy Dore Show.
The question is, why?
The Jimmy Dore Show on YouTube has 350,000 subscribers. Without access to the audience metrics, I’m guessing Dore pulls in 40 thousand viewers a day.
Not a huge audience by cable network TV standards, but nothing to sniff at either. Particularly if you are CNN whose prime time shows attract around 900,000 viewers in a typical prime time hour and regularly finish third behind MSNBC and Fox News. When you finish third in a three person race, that means you finished last.
By comparison, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow attracts the biggest cable news audience at around two and a half million viewers every night.
To be accurate, most of these YouTube podcasts engage in news analysis and media criticism, not original news reporting. Dore stands out from other podcasts, however, due to his sharp comedic timing and effective use of long pauses. Unlike most other podcast hosts, Dore doesn’t ramble and keeps the conversational fillers like ‘uh’ and ‘um’ to a minimum. His thoughts are…
