Independent media

Let's go and play it.

[dramatic music] It is such a historic time right now for our country, for this network, for independent media, for free press, and that's where we wanna take, take this opportunity to keep that momentum running, especially right now as we're going into the midterms.

We're not just covering the story.

We're inside it.

When Weather Nation was aggressively targeted for its association to Real America's Voice and we had providers threaten to take Weather Nation down, you know, the argument that we had and we went and put forth was, "This is gonna be a danger to society, to viewers across the country if you remove access to this information when there's hurricanes, there's tornadoes, and people need to have this information to know where they need to go to be safe." The same can be said for information surrounding this president and this administration.

So when you look at it and you talk about, uh, the legality of CNN being able to have a stranglehold over the access to this president versus independent media outlets, it, it...

You know, part of that argument can really come down to a safety side of things.

You need to be able to have the information to make informed decisions about who you wanna vote for, what you need to do in your day-to-day life, uh, to make your day-to-day life better at the end of the day.

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is putting up, and that is truly independent media, because he covers stories don't nobody be talking about.

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were detained during an ICE raid on September 25th.

To those of you watching this after the fact, welcome.

And it's all part, by the way, of this broader effort where we're trying each week to have somebody on who's another part of the progressive media network so that we are promoting people who you should be listening to as sources of independent media.

And nobody has a more important source of independent media right now than what you guys are doing at Courier.

I mean, you like have like billions and billions Well, how's career going? How's the growth of career these days?

First of all, David, thank you for having me.

Not only, you know, D.C. political elite, but the Democratic Party establishment really fall into that trap of no longer actually speaking the language of the majority of Americans or people even they're trying to serve and falling increasingly out of touch with them, not just in terms of language and communication, but policies and priorities.

And I think that's kind of, you know, these things are interconnected.

The media that people consume our legacy media really is buy-in for elites now and that's why it's lost so much trust of so many americans and that's why i think media like courier but not just career but independent media of all forms is so so important because people want to see their own lives their own issues their own concerns their own values reflected back to them and i think legacy media and and both political parties have really um they've lost the plot on that And it's very evident.

The information that you're giving us is just invaluable.

And just this is what you get, Tezzan, and I know you're a big, strong supporter of independent journalism and independent media.

It's happening right here on the Don Lemon Show that you're getting.

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Sorry, we've just lost on for a minute.

Just give me one second.

While we pull Don in, I want the viewers to know, as Don mentioned, independent media is so critically important.

There are content creators here down in the lobby who are covering this.

I'm just a redneck kid with a CWD-19 shirt on in Portage County, Ohio.

But I think that now that independent media, independent journalism is media now.

It's not local news.

It's not like Fox News, CNN.

It will find a way.

And it's going to find the empowerment of independent media, responsible, fact-based independent media.

that is what this is going to give birth to people like us that have the ability to affirm people's values with real information they can trust we source that information then we appeal to their better nature because we all know the same thing you know is you're not crazy they're just trying to make you think you are and they're going to use all of their power to be able to consolidate that crazy to convince you somehow you're not but listen That will find a way.

It continues to find a way.

We get all these like-minded defenders of democracy together, wear our, wear our paraphernalia and our gear at our Blanche Bash.

Well, let's hear it for independent women, uh, in independent media.

And to support independent women in independent media, make sure you follow, like, subscribe to Katie Phan's YouTube channel.

Also, uh, do me a favor, give a listen to The Daily Beans podcast if you haven't done it before.

I think you'll really like it.

They discovered something else.

Just as this show has been blazing a trail for all these years, the power of social media, the power of independent media now completely dwarfs the power of the so-called mainstream, so-called media.

This show is watched by far more people than the BBC.

This show is watched, immeasurably actually, by far more people than the numbers who watch CNN or MSNBC or whatever they're called these days.

The so-called mainstream media is dead.

Long live independent media.

Long live social media.

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