Media consumption is decentralizing from large mainstream outlets to smaller, niche, and often isolated digital platforms.

“Everybody has been decentralizing. Even, you know, with all due respect, Joe Rogan's views appear to be lower than they were four or five years ago because more and more channels keep emerging and people are seeking out their hangouts.”

The mainstream media has historically misled the public on major events.

“If you go back through history of all the things of your lifetime, none of them hold up and they wouldn't have if we had the internet at the time, like 911, finding the passport in the rubble, that kind of They always have sucked at it. They just made you stupid.”

Ian Bremmer claims that major US news outlets have become more politicized and less objective than they were a decade ago.

“So much of that is framing. It's not that the journalism is wrong, but the stories that are being picked and the way that they are being reported and the angles on them are much more politicized than they used to be.”