{"id":394018,"date":"2019-01-24T17:01:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T16:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/this-is-why-theyre-so-salty\/"},"modified":"2019-01-24T17:01:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T16:01:59","slug":"this-is-why-theyre-so-salty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/this-is-why-theyre-so-salty\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThis is Why They\u2019re So Salty\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Swedish video gamer\u2019s news show is more popular than anything mainstream has to offer<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson<\/strong><br \/>PrisonPlanet.com<br \/>January 24, 2019 <!-- NO_ADS_IN_ARTICLE --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/240119pewdiepie1.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>YouTuber PewDiePie chided the mainstream media by pointing out that his own news show \u2013 PewNews \u2013 completely crushes the competition, commenting, \u201cThis is why they\u2019re so God damn salty.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PewDiePie, real name Felix Kjellberg, responded to a meme which read, \u201cWhen Felix realize that PewNews has more viewers than Vox which makes PewNews a mainstream media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean I already knew this, this is why they\u2019re so God damn salty,\u201d said Kjellberg, before joking, \u201cPewNews is the most respected news source out there \u2013 and I can actually say that.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Swedish video gamer&#8217;s news show is more popular than Vox, VICE or any other similar mainstream media outlet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is why they&#8217;re so God damn salty.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8JtIaSGC42\">pic.twitter.com\/8JtIaSGC42<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PrisonPlanet\/status\/1088448457637949440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>PewDiePie\u2019s videos routinely receive in the region of 5 to 8 million views, with some being seen by tens of millions.<\/p>\n<p>While the audience is obviously very different (the average CNN viewer is aged around 60), PewNews obliterates the competition. Compare his average views to those received by TV\u2019s top rated news shows in Q3 2018.<\/p>\n<p>PewNews: 5-8,000,000+<br \/>Hannity: 3,340,000.<br \/>The Rachel Maddow Show: 2,947,000.<br \/>Tucker Carlson Tonight: 2,775,000.<br \/>The Ingraham Angle: 2,672,000.<br \/>The Last Word with Lawrence O\u2019Donnell: 2,307,000.<br \/>The Five: 2,304,000.<br \/>Special Report with Bret Baier: 2,172,000.<br \/>The Story with Martha MacCallum: 2,019,000.<br \/>All In with Chris Hayes: 1,864,000.<br \/>11th Hour with Brian Williams: 1,700,000.<\/p>\n<p>This is why the mainstream media is so threatened by PewDiePie when he does cover serious issues, such as the recent controversy over the EU\u2019s Article 13 copyright directive.<\/p>\n<p>PewDiePie has been relentlessly demonized and smeared by the mainstream media because the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/pewdiepie-chides-mainstream-media-this-is-why-theyre-so-salty.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish video gamer\u2019s news show is more popular than anything mainstream has to offer Paul Joseph WatsonPrisonPlanet.comJanuary 24, 2019 YouTuber PewDiePie chided the mainstream media by pointing out that his own news show \u2013 PewNews \u2013 completely crushes the competition, commenting, \u201cThis is why they\u2019re so God damn salty.\u201d PewDiePie, real name Felix Kjellberg, responded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-394018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}