CV and mad panic behaviour

[LP]

I read a mainstream media article today that exposes the inequity of Facebook, Instagram and Spotify, and how complicit they have become in spreading COVID misinformation for profit.

Joe "The Gish" Rogan gets about $100M per annum from Spotify for spreading his garbage information, apparently that's about 20x the going rate for the same number of hits/streams paid to a musician or singer.

Now if those social media platforms are truly paying Rogan $100M per annum for his COVID dribble, how much do the platforms make from COVID disinformation, it must be billion$ and billion$?

If this exposed detail is true, how could anyone trust or believe Rogan or any social media platform ever again?

Now it seems this is going to blow up for the social media giants, not because of those rallying against COVID disinformation, but because of the remuneration disparity, dollar$ talk!

[madbluboy]

He isn't the biggest anti vaxxer going around. It was one of his podcasts at the start of the pandemic that informed me how bad covid is.

He's just becoming another victim of cancel culture.

[LP]

He's just becoming another victim of cancel culture.

Looks like he pulled the wool over a few eyes, if he gets cancelled it seems he can afford it! ;D

An associate at work did a quick calculation on what local girl "Tone ands I" would be worth if Spotify and other social media valued and remunerated her the same as Joe "The Gish" Rogan. Apparently she has earned about $43M from streaming of her hits, if she got Rogan's pay deal she would earn about $720M!
(Rather than hits I think he used some complex time basis, equivalent streaming minutes per artist)

Has Tones and I been ripped off?

Rogan is a king of spin, he uses the Gish Gallop technique, slick and smooth but very very little of what he speaks stacks up.

Gish Gallop is a technique, named after the creationist Duane Gish who employed it, whereby someone argues a cause by hurling as many different half-truths and no-truths into a very short space of time so that their opponent cannot hope to combat each point in real time.

It sounds slick, it sounds knowledgeable, but when it's slowed down and analysed it turns out to be a hundred different flavours of the same bull5h1zen!

How much does internet nurse Dr John Campbell get paid, and does this explain his sometimes controversial deviations from reality?

[LP]

I thought I might have been harsh on Joe Rogan when I gave him the label "The Gish".

Then today I found this article that makes an analogy with Gwyneth Paltrow, Joe "Goop" Rogan, ............. ouch!
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/02/...c-grifter/

He is just one step away from Fish Slapping it seems, accompanied by a jar of "training modality" vitamins, allegedly a bargain for about US$140 a bottle!

[DJC]

Crosby, Stills and Nash have joined Neil Young in pulling their music from Spotify:

We support and agree with Neil: Joe Rogan’s podcast on Spotify is dangerous misinformation.

While committed to the expression of alternative opinions, knowingly spreading misinformation during this global pandemic has deadly consequences.

Older folk will be frantically downloading ?

[capcom]

A few more hop on for a ride aboard the Marrakesh Express

[Lods]

Just crank up the YouTube.

[Professer E]

Got a problem with Crazy Horse DJC?

[Lods]

Crosby, Stills and Nash have joined Neil Young in pulling their music from Spotify:

Older folk will be frantically downloading ?

Older folk have the vinyl

[LP]

As each day passes it's looking more and more like the COVID disinformation thing is really just a smokescreen, a trigger to vent some backlash against social media over royalty disparities, based on what Rogan earns rightly so!

I don't get why younger artists are yet to jump on board, maybe they are scared to losing the followers, but perhaps they are more beholding to the social media royalties than the older artists who tasted success under different conditions.