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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Rogan is a host. Are media hosts responsible for everything their guests say? If CNN interviews a general who says a country is harbouring terrorists, and public opinion is moved marginally towards a war against that country, is CNN responsible for those consequences?
And even if there may be a case for removing that episode of Rogan’s podcast, it’s clear that ideological enemies of Rogan smell blood and want the whole show removed from Spotify. Which is getting into the realm of pressuring Spotify (and by extension iTunes, etc) into hosting only Blue Tribe content. The ideal of broadly popular, non-partisan platforms is not shared by everybody. Some would very much like a world where all media, news, and entertainment platforms took a clear stand and declared allegiance to their side of the culture wars. Which I think would be a very bad thing.
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Host isn’t a protected class. A Host is responsible for all content if that content is left unchallenged. If before airing the Malone podcast every time Malone misled or lied or Mischaracterized a voice over jumped in to correct the record maybe you could say that the host was doing their job. Giving a person an 11 million person audience Comes with significant responsibility.
If CNN knows that this general is going to lie on the air and they do absolutely nothing to challenge or indicate that the general is lying then CNN should absolutely be blamed.