Traditional media is currently surviving due to the influence of Boomers, Big Pharma, and professional sports contracts.

“what is keeping traditional media in place three things one is Boomers one is Big Pharma and the other one is sports”

Broadcast television is a dying format that is overly restricted by commercial interests and governmental narratives compared to the depth allowed by podcasting.

“Like this is a bad format. You have to break for commercials every seven minutes. No conversation could ever get into depth. There's executives in your ear telling you what to say and what not to say.”

Traditional media is no longer effective because it relies on superficial content rather than meaningful, honest conversation.

“that's why the mainstream is dead and that's why no one cares”

Mainstream media networks like CNN are failing because their on-air talent is fundamentally uninteresting and out of touch.

“these people are fundamentally uninteresting right and that's why they're furious at people like Joe Rogan and yeah Yours Truly this shouldn't have happened”

The traditional model of broadcast journalism is currently in a state of decline or death.

“I just think that mode of journalism is dying, if not dead.”

The center-left must learn how to effectively influence the media environment, as they currently lack the unified communication apparatus that the political right possesses.

“it's impossible to take an idea and to get it out as much into the media environment as it is when the Republicans can pilot an idea and have it completely accepted before launching it out, and then on the left we just don't have that that apparatus and infrastructure.”

The Democratic Party should shift funds away from television advertisements and invest more heavily in independent media and online content creators.

“I've spent honestly much of the last 10 years uh going to meetings with donors to try to convince them that to take take some of that money they were spending on TV ads that were largely being shown to people over the age of 65 and put it into any form of content creation that could be influencers p”

The Democratic Party failed to properly utilize influencers and podcasters, leading to a missed opportunity in the recent election.

“this election was dubb the podcast election and we missed it by virtue of not validating any of our podcasters in the podcast election”

Democrats should proactively challenge conservative narratives by deploying people to appear on conservative media outlets.

“the third thing is I think as as Democrats we should train and support and deploy more people to go on conservative media and blow up their narratives cuz if if we go if if the right goes unchallenged on their Turf then huge numbers of people only hear the far rights perspective”