HWFO on Ken LaCorte Big Pod
A light happy podcast full of low grade media bashing for a quiet Thursday
Ken LaCorte is a former Fox News Executive and used to be somewhat or largely responsible for their web content arm. He left them, started his own media thing, and got in deep with the New York Times for some of the things he was doing on social media, got cancelled and his Facebook page nuked, and now he’s running podcasts and doing some other stuff. This was a fun discussion, light on the deeper HWFO material. No yammering about “egregores” or similar. What I liked about it was I was able to get his perspective from inside a media giant on how they work, as I tried to flip the thing into less of an interview and more of a discussion.
It’s also significantly shorter than many of my other appearances, so it should be easier to digest. Have fun with it.
Nice discussion and I was surprised to hear you bring up the band NOFX. The reference got me motivated to pull out the 'White trash, two heebs, and a bean' album for the today's playlist (despite the fact that they, like Social D went full-retard during the Trump years).
Follow up question / comment. Is it just me, or have you also noticed that the biggest punk fans from the 80s and 90s seem to also be in favor of big government? I was having this discussion with a friend who is about 20 years older than me (he was listening to Black Flag in his teens whereas I was listening to Pennywise). We both noticed that the overwhelming amount of support for Bernie or even Hilary came from this group of individuals. It just strike me as odd that you can listen to the Dead Kennedys sing "Chickenshit conformist" or NOFX "murder the government" and then pull the lever for Sanders when he is the definition of bigger government.
As H.L. Menken said, "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserves to get it good and hard."