In a new interview with the New York Times, former ESPN host Jemele Hill wants Spotify to pay a Black podcaster the same type of money the company gave Joe Rogan to prove it’s not racist:
Jemele Hill dares Spotify to pay a black person $100M to prove it's not racist.https://t.co/NI7KfO6Os6
— OutKick (@Outkick) February 18, 2022
From the New York Times:
“What I would like to see,” Ms. Hill said in an interview, “is for them to hand $100 million to somebody who is Black.”
First up, who knew a company could just hire one person and — POOF! — the racism stigma is gone:
I’m glad we’ve finally advanced to the part of the story when the left just has an overt absolution price sheet. It makes the shakedown much more efficient. https://t.co/N9gF8swK8J
— Stu Burguiere (@StuDoesAmerica) February 18, 2022
But, more importantly, who would Spotify get that could bring a Joe Rogan-sized audience? Maybe Dave Chapelle:
https://twitter.com/GPollowitz/status/1494785048079384582
And who wants to tell Hill that Spotify already has paid out millions to Black podcasters, like Michelle Obama:
Spotify paid exclusive right for Michelle Obama's podcast. https://t.co/BG4kCWCnW4
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) February 18, 2022
She doesn’t count?
Every relationship starts with a conversation.
The #MichelleObamaPodcast premieres July 29, only on @SpotifyPodcasts 🎙 @MichelleObama pic.twitter.com/eiY14FUyLe
— Spotify (@Spotify) July 16, 2020
They also struck a deal with AvaDuVernay, but she didn’t produce a single episode:
“Ava DuVernay, the film director who announced a podcast deal with Spotify a year ago but has yet to produce any content under it, severed her ties with Spotify…”
(What’s with all these Spotify deals with talent, who don’t end up producing any podcasts?)
— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) February 18, 2022
And Spotify has a deal with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle who have only made one podcast:
“Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who have their own deal to produce podcasts for Spotify but have produced only one…” https://t.co/b4e6Wo0Is2
— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) February 18, 2022
This might surprise these lib folks, but just creating a podcast out of think air and hoping to attract listeners is rather difficult, as Spotify is now learning:
Meghan & Harry, Ava DuVernay, the Russo brothers, Kim Kardashian, Jordan Peele. Spotify has inked a lot of big podcast deals in the last 3 years that have resulted in not a lot of shows. @perlberg and I looked at the development bottleneck within Spotify https://t.co/Xmkn84QlDI
— Natalie Jarvey (@natjarv) February 18, 2022
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