Which only reached middle aged and older men who drove a lot

Edit: I don't get the downvotes. In AM radio's heyday, pre-2000, women and younger people were not listening to it at all. Older men were the target demographic. Of course everyone had access to radios, but women and younger people were listening to FM, not Rush Limbaugh. And at home, AM was never on unless you were in a very rural area and an AM station was your only choice.

General "centrist" unbiased news coverage tends not to affirm right-wing beliefs so they have to retreat into fringe independent media.

"Centrist" media tends to affirm things like the results of good science and vague inclusion, so liberals are happy to listen to it. It's only self-described socialists or other "far left" euphemisms that recognize the deference to capitalism as problematic.

It’s not like newspapers or television are much better. The oligarchs bought and control both of those outlets. Plenty of “opinion disguised as news” to go around these days.

Lying is easy and takes less time.

A lot of these shows go hand-in-glove with traditional media. The police-blotter style coverage of local news, wherein a handful of old white people bemoan the latest string of young black man violent crimes gets picked up and fed into the Podcast Racism Engine and spat out as the show's Two-Minute Hate of the day.

Then you have a congo-line of ex-military blowhards telling you how they got rich trading in their service pensions for crypto futures. You have the usual suspects lineup of incel sex pests complaining that America's Newest Supermodel isn't hot enough or isn't Trad Enough, in between reading sponsor copy for whatever PR company paid them to say said Supermodel's name twenty times in a given episode. You have interviews with C-list politicians who come on the show to cry about how you can't say the N-word anymore, on account of the Woke. You have middling athletes at the end of their careers complain about how Transgender high schoolers are ruining the sport. You have middling songwriters at the end of their careers complain about how they pay too much in taxes and hate all three of their ex-wives. You have middling screenwriters demo a pilot episode of a cartoon series about Real Americans forced to use pronouns at gunpoint, then point you to the conservative version of Kickstarter with the promise of a full series that'll never get produced once they have your money. And holy shit will you get an earful about Jesus.

All this takes a bunch of time and networking and tons of money to grease the wheels. Charlie Kirk ain't doing this shit for free. But it's stacked up like any classic MLM, with the kingpins racking in disproportionately more than any of their minions or guests.

It's short-sighted to say these operations are just faster than traditional journalism, though. Lots of the names on that board have been bouncing around for decades. This is a long term, heavily financed, hugely lucrative propaganda machine. It dates back to the Nixon Era (arguably earlier) and quite a few folks have gone to their graves helping to build it.

and also propaganda is easy to digest on the right too.

This is less indicative of the political leanings of the population and more the result of a precise planned and serious effort of the right and rich political machine to spread their message. This is why Trump won 2025 in such a big way.

Edit: but your statement is also true

I don't understand why bubbles with seemingly random positions was chosen to represent this data.

Social media is a tool that could just as easily be used for the betterment of humankind.

Sadly, that doesn't make a few people lots and lots of money, so it doesn't happen.

Agriculture was a mistake.

every technology has had positive and negative. some get weaponized by the powers that be more effectively before the people can ensure safeguards. even the wheel has been a tool of the oppressor while making our lives too comfortable. of late, the powers that be have gained more through technological advancement than the people. i want to see a world where we can invert some of this power stream. after all, it's us, the people, who discovered these advancements, built these wonders, and now find ourselves increasingly imprisoned and controlled by violence

And its here to stay. The way kids are stuck on YouTube is like how old people are stuck on fox news.

I've thought about this a lot. There's no end. If its not Facebook, YouTube, cable, etc. It will be something else. If only our daily lives where interesting in and of themselves. Escapism will always detach us from each other and we will flail on the wind forever.

Last I saw them was them saying the left needs to start treating trans people shittier because my"most Americans are transphobic" and if we ever want to win an election again, we have to be transphobic.

As a trans person myself dating another trans person, where are we supposed to go?

They go where the money is.

i was going to say, there are some other things on here mislabeled as blue

It wasn't over night. For example, their support for harris was far right in the first place.

Yeah. Seriously questioning methodology here.

I honestly had no idea Trevor Noah was still around.

Of the blue bubbles that actually have text (which is already a lot less than that of the red ones), I think I've heard of two or three. I've heard of a lot more of the red ones, and I actively avoid right-wing social media.

I must be missing something. I have been watching TYT recently after being impressed with Cenk's arguments in his appearance on Jubilee. Regarding American politics, he is certainly left. Maybe people on Lemmy think otherwise because we have so many literal Communists, but in their videos they take every opportunity to rant against the "donor class" while criticising Republicans for obvious reasons and Democrats for being pro-Israel, their election shenanigans, or for generally not being radical enough.

The only politicians I've seen get much praise when I watch are Bernie and Zohran Mamdani, so that's about where I would put them. If you don't consider Social Democrats / Democratic Socialists to be left, I am curious where you think the centrist "origin point" of the political compass should be. I would think their policies would be left of the governments of almost any country on Earth.

I'm sure some of these right wing shows are funded by oligarchs and probably buying bot subs.

I dunno who this person is... But this chart was apparently made my Media Matters according to the credits at the bottom.

Shitstaingold: "Muh Superior Western Culture"

Also Shitstaingold: "I never clean my room, have roaches, and never wash my hands"

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Chosen of Nurgle

Yep. "influencers" make their content free. Big newspapers with national reach just refuse to be read online, they want subscriptions.

There's some good community papers but they don't get much reach because the Internet doesn't necessarily show you local stuff

More likely, this is an artifact of a poorly condicted study. As someone else pointed out, John Oliver isn't listed. To me, this just indicates that more left people get their news from sources which didnt fit the study's criteria for whatever reason.

They can't. Which explains the whole manosphere train of thought

They go into listening to those people with less brain cells than an average healthy person. If you have a normal number of brain cells you don't get caught up with that shit to begin with.