I tend to cut people a lot of slack on things that some see as outrages, cover-ups and howlers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, when Joe Rogan couldn’t get Sanjay Gupta to condemn CNN for calling Rogan’s Ivermectin treatment “horse medicine”, some screamed foul. And it was a terrible look – but what, yo8u want a guy to shade his employer on the biggest podcast in the world? Be reailstic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And a few weeks back, when the pit reporters translated “F**k Joe Biden” into “Let’s Go Brandon”, some howled the network was covering up for Biden’s growing unpopularity. No – in that case, she was doing what everyone working live in the world of broadcast <\/em>(as opposed to cable or webcasting) is trained to do from the first time they take a microphone in front of a crowd; take any FCC violations that slip through and try to neutralize them, to prevent as many FCC complaints against their hundreds of affiliates broadcast licenses as possible. Because someone will <\/em>complain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (And honestly, that particular meme may be the closest thing to “fun” we’ll have this political cycle). <\/p>\n\n\n\n And so my inner solomonic pollyanna is fighting with my pouncing Republican and education-reform zealot on this bit here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n