Joe Rogan Rejects Push to Seat Podcasters Beside Journalists at Trump Press Conferences
Joe Rogan rejected a White House advisor's proposal to give podcasters front-row seats at press conferences, saying podcasters are not journalists, according to Fox News.
Joe Rogan rejected a proposal from White House advisor David Sacks to give podcasters front-row seats at press conferences, according to a Fox News report on Rogan's remarks. The outlet's headline stated that Rogan said podcasters have no business at Trump press conferences alongside real journalists.
Fox News reported that Rogan's objection centered on the nature of his own work, declaring "we talk s---" and rejecting the idea that podcasters are journalists. The report's summary characterizes Sacks' proposal as a push for podcasters to sit in front-row seats, and it presents Rogan's response as a refusal of that push.
Fox News's summary does not say where or when the proposal was made, which press conferences it referred to, or whether Sacks or the White House responded to Rogan's remarks. The summary also does not include Rogan's full comments or any quotations beyond the phrase it reports.
The summary describes Rogan's comments as a response to Sacks' push and does not describe any further exchange between the two men. It also does not describe any policy or rule that would govern podcaster access to press conferences.
The report frames the exchange as a question of who counts as a journalist at Trump press conferences, a distinction it draws through Rogan's own description of podcasting as talk rather than journalism. Fox News did not, in the summary available, describe any official response to that distinction.