Smith noted that Rogan’s perspective is “predicated on the assumption that [the media is] being honest.” Rogan responded:

But this is my perspective. If you’re in business and your business is the news and you want to get more people to pay attention, you should be honest. And my my thoughts for CNN, my advice to them, I don’t hate CNN. I used to go to them every day for the news until they start fucking hatin’ on me. If you want to do better, just fucking change your model, change the way you do it. Stop this editorial perspective with guys like Brian Stelter and Don Lemon that nobody listens to.

On Stelter and Lemon, Rogan concluded, “Nobody is like chiming in saying, ‘Oh yeah, finally we get the voice of reason.’ Nobody thinks that.”