Re:Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes
by rsynnott on Friday April 09, 2021 @06:44PM
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Eh? Rogan is a podcaster. He is one of very few with a publisher/distributor; the vast majority are independent. 30 years ago (apart from pirate radio, I suppose) there was nothing like podcasts at all. Media has never been less centralised than today.
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Re:Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes
by skohan on Saturday April 10, 2021 @02:23AM
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It can simultaneously be the case that media is radically less centralized than it was 20 years ago, and that it is significantly more centralized than it was 20 months ago.
To make an analogy, the average life expectancy has increased massively since the iron age. That does not mean we should not be worried if we observe a decrease in average life expectancy year over year.
Re:Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes
by rsynnott on Saturday April 10, 2021 @09:10AM
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I mean, one podcaster has effectively taken a network contract (in the traditional media sense); as with virtually all such contracts it is restrictive. Nothing has changed for the million or so podcasters who have not sighted network contracts.
Meanwhile, podcasts generally continue to become dramatically more popular, thus taking more and more media consumption time away from the large networks.