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The shifting media landscape has Fox News host Will Cain calling out those who “earned it” amid the potential for inclusion of podcasters at White House press briefings.

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As corporate media continues to dig its own grave one heaping shovelful of Trump Derangement Syndrome at a time, an increasing number of voters have turned their trust to alternative media for news. After the president-elect’s son, Donald Trump Jr., teased the possibility of “independent journalists” joining the pool, Cain named Megyn Kelly and Joe Rogan in particular as commentators who should be in the mix.

Joining Emily Compagno on “Fox & Friends” Wednesday, the regular co-host of “Fox & Friends Weekend” commented, “Pretty exciting, there might be a White House press briefing seat for ‘The Will Cain Show.’…The truth is though, most of us from ‘The Will Cain Show’ to Joe Rogan to Megan Kelly and so forth, we don’t have large, built-out news departments, reporters, and journalists set to sit in that room. And I can’t imagine seeing Megyn and Joe moving to D.C. and ready to ask questions directly, but they’ve earned it.”

Compagno noted there was a limit of 49 seats in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room and that how reporters were arranged was decided by the White House Correspondents’ Association. However, it was up to the White House to decide who received credentials in the first place.

“That’s the point that I think is being alluded to here or we’re getting to. As long as they want to invest and build out, they have earned it,” said Cain of some of the top potential commentators.

The host of “The Will Cain Show” also brought up the frustration from corporate media after Elon Musk had continually asserted that users on X “are the media now. And legacy media know it.”

“I hate this damn debate about like, ‘Oh, we don’t need the media.’ Like, it is not true!” said Axios CEO Jim VandeHei during a rant where he cried, “Bullsh*t!” to Musk.

“You’re not the media, you having a blue checkmark, a Twitter handle, and 300 words of cleverness doesn’t make you a reporter any more than me looking at your head, and seeing that you have a brain and telling you have an awesome set of tools makes me a damn neurosurgeon, right?” he went on asserting in part, “You have to do the hard work.”

Cain called out the CEO as he went on, “Jim VandeHei did this thing the other day when — the founder of Axios, prior that Politico — they all patted themselves on the back, gave themselves an award, and said podcasters aren’t journalists. Elon Musk, you know, you are not the media.”

“The truth is that whole group, the one that has the 49 seats now, they’ve lost everything, every bit of trust, Emily. Through Russiagate, to Donald Trump, to COVID, and every other story — what credibility do you have that you think entitles you to that seat? And I think most of us at this point don’t care,” he argued. “I don’t care what CBS or ABC or NBC  or CNN have to say. I would be interested to hear what a question from Joe Rogan would be.”

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