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Re:Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out ... by zarzavat on Thursday January 27, 2022 @02:51AM (#30097537)
But why? Joe Rogan doesn’t publish news. The podcast is in the form of a conversation between two people. He does talk about current events, just as everybody else does when they have a conversation.

He doesn’t make any claim that is show is anything more than two people chatting. If anyone is using JRE as a trusted news source, then they are an idiot. You can’t stop people from being idiots, nor should we attempt to childproof the entire world on their behalf.

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Re:Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out ... by croon on Thursday January 27, 2022 @04:11AM (#30098086)
Everyone I've ever talked to that listens to JRE thinks what they say on it is generally correct.

I guess you can't stop people from being idiots, but there's no harm in trying.

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Re:Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out ... by blitzar on Thursday January 27, 2022 @04:37AM (#30098258)
> Everyone I've ever talked to that listens to JRE thinks what they say on it is generally correct.

I have tuned in reasonably regularly. I think what they say on there is generally what the person saying it believes to be correct.

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Re:Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out ... by croon on Thursday January 27, 2022 @04:44AM (#30098320)
That I agree with, but that wasn't what I meant, and judging from anecdata, not everyone can make that distinction. It's easy to be convinced by presentation rather than content.
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Re:Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out ... by naasking on Thursday January 27, 2022 @08:34AM (#30100337)
> Everyone I've ever talked to that listens to JRE thinks what they say on it is generally correct.

"Generally correct" is a much lower bar than "always correct". It might even be a bar that JRE can pass.

Edit: where they're talking about factual matters I mean, not where they talk about aliens, big foot, and other obviously outlandish ideas where they're clearly just shooting the breeze.

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