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This whole thing is a way to enrich corporate media and disenfranchise independent journalism.

Joe Rogan or The Young Turks won't be eligible for any of these anti trust exclusions or subsequent payouts. Even though much of America relies on them for political coverage, news and debate.

This whole things is a blatant money and power grab and has nothing to do with increasing the quality of independent, high quality Journalism.

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The two sources you named are barely sources of journalism on their best days.

You might say that, but multiple political organizations through internal polling have found these independent journalists to have such a large audience that they get candidates to appear on them.

There are plenty of publicly available data points that present a reasonable case for this that im too lazy to cite on a friday evening, but there are a few in this reddit post that may help: https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/ben0rp/is_joe_big...

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