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...
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.