Tucker Carlson has a huge audience. Donald Trump is the biggest draw in the land. Elon Musk promoted it heavily. So of course the interview of President Donald J Trump by Tucker Carlson was seen by far more people than the Fox News GOP debate on Wednesday night.
Here’s the interview on Rumble for those who don’t want to watch on Twitter.
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The explosive interview has over 210 million views on Twitter alone as of this article being published. That exceeded even the most aggressive expectations and adds more supporting evidence to the notion that Americans are turning off network television and cable news.
Ep. 19 Debate Night with Donald J Trump pic.twitter.com/ayPfII48CO
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 24, 2023
To be clear, impressions do not translate into full video views, but even if only 10% of the people who had the video in their feed watched all or part of it, that’s still over 20 million. That also doesn’t count the views on the various other online channels that published it.
By comparison, Carlson’s previous episode on Twitter yielded just under 10 million views.
Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
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Independent media is the future. In many ways, that future is already here. While the phrase, “the more the merrier,” does not apply to this business because there are still some bad actors in the independent media field, there are many great ones that do not get nearly enough attention. We hope to change that one content creator at a time.
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