Story is very fresh right now with several outlets blowing it up as a 'we won!' moment and AOC calling for his arrest for incitement or some shit.
He needs to do a Rubin or something similar as he was the one thing that made people even watch fox sometimes because of his anaylsis. I sense Fox's viewing figures are going to dive again...
This is unfortunate, because even though he may have a bigger audience being on his own, he was reaching a lot of folks on Fox who are boomers and who do not seek out alternative content. Now he will reach only people who are already critical of the establishment.
It depends, I've seen more boomers using YouTube now and podcast information services. I think we're at the point it's less tech illiteracy and more loyal viewing patterns so once what the watch is gone and the switch, they're never coming back.
It's cultural. Just like how Zoomers were raised by iPads and phones, Boomers were raised by the television. So they have an entire lifetime of reflexively turning on the TV and absorbing whatever it outputs.
My parents are hilariously frustrating with this. I will go on and on to them about how insidious TV is and how propaganda-laden all TV news outlets are and they will totally agree with me. Won't stop it from being on the TV though. And if I am there and I see it on and I mention it again, they will agree but then say "we know it is biased BS but then where would we get news from?"
my mom is the same way. she litterly goes stir crazy and starts pacing wildly around the house. she 'has' to do something, and sit down for the tv is it. she can't accept that the restlessness comes from lack of purpose, and she just needs a fucking hobby as an outlet. but she is 'to old' to 'learn' because you are 'born with all your braincells you will ever have, and they just die of after that' (supper old quack science)
She is anti tv now, so she just watches youtube all day, the algorithm feeds her stuff it thinks fits her views, trying to pull her to the mainstream, and she just clicks through her subscriptions and the alternative stuff, and ignores the mainstream stuff.
the only way she was able to make the transition was to get a roku (which she used to love, but has moved away from as they locked down and got more shitty) to make her youtube on the tv work like a cable box.
My dad is exactly the same way. I've repeatedly told him that TV news is BS propaganda, and he even agrees, but he still nevertheless tunes into it.
You can't put a group of people defined by being born in an 18 year period into a category like you're trying to do.
People are individuals. You might be able to predict trends, but not individuals.
You should be addressing concepts here. Some people are going to keep watching Faux, some are going to leave MSM altogether. Try to exert some influence in the right direction when you get a chance.
Generalizations are 100 percent necessary to have any meaningful discussion about many of the topics discussed on this board. That doesn't mean there aren't plenty of individuals that buck the trend, and it doesn't mean people shouldn't do all they can to help those that seem helplessly predisposed towards being apart of the trend. This is setting aside whether or not this specific generalization is accurate or not.
In my family (not the other poster) we have no ability to influence when the older generation.
They watch the perceived "authority figure" on tv, use it to jockey for position amongst each other. There's not much space left for us that doesn't threaten their sense of losing control to their "below them" children.
I've been able to convince my older family of this or that, or convince them something they're pushing is bad before, but all that happens is they go back home to watching their media and debating amongst themselves and come back just more enraged that I disagreed with their group consensus - who's fundamental center is the big screen they watch every day.
With them captured by the big screen there seems to be no room left to influence them.
Tucker leaving Fox is another nail in the coffin of traditional television media.
Who is going to watch that shit anymore when all the talent has gone elsewhere?
Boomers are going to finally start using Youtube so they can subscribe to Tucker.
It will hopefully bring some of those people over to alternative content specifically to watch Tucker. And, once there, their eyes will open even wider.
They will find another limited hangout for the boomers dont worry