Gay, a contributing Opinion writer, is the author of the memoir Hunger, among other books. The platforms sharing these rewards can continue to look the other way. On Joe Rogan and Spotify, Roxane Gay Takes a Stand Ms. They will be well rewarded for their efforts.
Sometimes, I watch a reality TV show called Building Off the Grid, about people who decide to make homes for themselves in remote places where they can live. She hosts the podcast The Roxane Gay Agenda.
Reiterating that she isn’t “trying to impede anyone’s freedom to speak,” Gay wrote: “Joe Rogan and others like him can continue to proudly encourage misinformation and bigotry to vast audiences. Gay, a contributing Opinion writer, is the author of the memoir Hunger, among other books. Trussell is a stand-up comedian who’s nerdy voice. He is one of Rogan’s long time buddies and has been on JRE as early as episode 42 in 2010. Since Young cited concerns about Rogan himself hosting guests who say. Musicians and podcasters are following Neil Young and jumping from the great ship Spotify after the platform embroiled itself in controversy by exclusively hosting Joe Rogan's podcast. Calling Rogan a ‘curious fellow’ Gay wrote his ‘guests are often people hovering on the intellectual fringes, purveying dangerous misinformation about Covid and other topics’, which was the main. Gay had, earlier on Tuesday (1 February), tweeted she would be removing her podcast The Roxanne Gay Agenda from Spotify over its continued association with Rogan and the rampant misinformation. “In the face of the outcry and boycotts,” Gay noted in her open letter, “both and Mr Rogan have made conciliatory gestures”, after which she criticised Spotify’s response as “tepid, ambiguous, and ineffective policies”, writing that the audio company was really just trying to protect “their bottom line”. On JRE episodes: 42, 863, 1464, 1530 (and many more) You might recognize Trussell as the guy wearing the crazy sasquatch looking costume, blazing on the podcast. Spotify to tackle COVID misinformation after Joe Rogan spat. Spotify chief executive Daniel Ek addressed the backlash in a blog post dated 30 January without naming Rogan, while the controversial podcaster made his first comments on Young and Mitchell’s decision to boycott Spotify over his content the following day.Īt the time, he promised to research topics like Covid and the climate crisis properly and backed Ek’s decision to add Covid advisory labels on relevant content. Instead, I’m trying to do the best I can, and take a stand when I think I can have an impact.”Īddressing the case of “curious fellow” Rogan and his “wildly popular podcast”, Gay said she believed the 54-year-old’s apology over misinformation in certain episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience was simply a “convenient way of shirking accountability for misleading people about their life-or-death health decisions.” “I am not looking for purity it doesn’t exist.