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Media and Journalism
Episodes · 12 months
10
Nov 2025–Oct 2026peak share, Feb 2026
Share of analysed episodes per month, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026: 2 of 3,584, 1 of 3,862, 1 of 4,115, 4 of 4,226, 1 of 4,731, 0 of 4,438, 0 of 4,230, 0 of 4,319, 1 of 4,515, 0 of 4,419, 0 of 4,624, 0 of 4,594.
All time
23
+46 via 30 narrower
On record
28
took a position
Where they standLast discussed
3mo ago
Jul 30, 2026
Where they stand
Camps of opinion · 2Positions people took on this topic in transcripts, grouped by school of thought. The bar shows each camp's share of the people sorted into a camp. It is not a poll and not a share of any audience, and people whose position fit no camp are left out of it. Within a camp, people with demonstrated expertise on the topic come first, then those who reached the most listeners on it. Positions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Share of people placed in a camp12 people
58%
42%
- Criticize mainstream media bias7 people · 58%
- Defend traditional journalistic…5 people · 42%
Criticize mainstream media bias
Mainstream media outlets have lost credibility by operating as biased, establishment-aligned, and untrustworthy partisan activists.
7 people · 7 episodes
Mainstream journalists are effectively part of the establishment rather than objective reporters, and their criticism of new media accessing the Pentagon shows they are partisan activists.
“These journalists that were in the Pentagon, they were not journalists. They were mocking bird media. They had the reason why they didn't have any kind like they could do whatever they wanted was because there was no distinction between them and the administrations they worked under.”
Timcast IRL · Oct 2025 · 1 episode · 271K views on this topic
Mainstream media outlets have a documented pattern of reporting false narratives and biased information regarding Donald Trump.
“How many more BS stories are we going to have to hear? They're worried about one guy, one freaking guy who was in a gang.”
PBD Podcast · Apr 2025 · 11 episodes · 5.8M views on this topic
The speaker contends that mainstream media credibility has collapsed because they have lost the trust of the American public through ideological bias.
“we're living in an age where people just don't trust what they hear but there is a partisan divide in that because Democrats 54% Trust in Media so above the 50% number Independents 27% Republicans ready 12% Trust in Media this is why the rise in podcast pbd Rogan so on and so forth is blowing up bec”
PBD Podcast · Dec 2024 · 9 episodes · 4.5M views on this topicDefend traditional journalistic…
Journalism requires traditional institutional structures, adversarial roles, and local reporting to properly serve the public interest.
5 people · 5 episodes
Journalists should not be cozy with presidential candidates, as their role in a debate is to be adversarial and tough.
“we're not supposed to be chumming with these guys it's supposed to be adversarial it's a presidential debate let's go let's get it on that's what I thought”
Shawn Ryan Show · Sep 2024 · 2 episodes · 3.6M views on this topic
Matt McCusker believes that journalists are important as they act as a necessary check on political power.
“they're an important check on power”
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast · Apr 2021 · 1 episode · 1.1M views on this topic
Media companies undermine the quality of journalism by laying off local reporters, who serve as the crucial bedrock for national reporting.
“every National story is a local story first right and it's some local story it's some local reporter to do it and then the national reporter come in and go get the [ __ ] out yeah yeah but you wouldn't even known about it if it wasn't a local reporter and so you know that's why I tried to tie in wit”
Flagrant · May 2023 · 1 episode · 672K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
In the transcripts
Episodes discussing this topicIncludes episodes tagged with a narrower subject. Each is marked with the subject it came in through.
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Over time
Share of episodesThis topic's episodes as a share of every episode we analysed, in each complete month. We analyse more episodes every month, so a raw count would mostly show that growth. Recent months fill in as transcripts are analysed.
Complete months · first on record Sep 2019