[MisterBastahrd]

Joe Rogan has a platform because he will allow any idiot on his show and just babble about whatever it is they want to talk about. He's not a journalist, he's a 3 hour ad placement masquerading as a podcast. Lex Friedman is even worse because he gives the impression that he's an intellectual but he plays the same game. At least you know going in that Rogan behaves like a meathead.

[newsreaderguy]

let "idiots" babble and get their arguments refuted by further discourse. Sorry that i don't feel the need to have a magical truth authority tell me whats right or wrong. You don't know what a journalist is.

[MisterBastahrd]

A journalist is supposed to pursue the truth, not be a firehose for incoherent stupidity. I'm sorry your education system failed you.

[slices]

a guy with a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering, who then worked for years at MIT, isn't an intellectual?

[MisterBastahrd]

Having a PhD in a field doesn't make you an intellectual. It means you worked long enough to have a defensible dissertation. I know some absolute morons who have PhDs.

[selimthegrim]

How involved was his daddy in getting that PhD?