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The White House Launches Revolutionary “Podcast Row” — ‘We Welcome New Media Voices and Podcasters from Across the Country’ and ‘You Have Far More Viewers Than CNN and the Legacy Media’

March 31, 2025

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On Thursday, March 27, The White House launched its revolutionary new media gateway called “Podcast Row,” embracing dozens of well-known political podcasters.

“We are so proud to welcome new media voices and podcasters from around the country who have massive audiences and are talking to everyday Americans like you.” 

“This is what’s it’s all about – new media, new voices, and getting the president’s message out to all Americans. These podcasters are speaking to administration officials, cabinet secretaries, White House officials, and we are having a lot of fun,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a formal White House greeting. 

“I bet you the people in that room have a lot more viewers than CNN and the legacy media. We are proud to welcome them to the White House,” Leavitt said in another formal White House greeting. 

On the heels of Thursday’s inaugural Podcast Row event, emerging superstar Executive Editor and White House Correspondent for Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast, Natalie Winters, thanked the president and his press secretary for inviting her to Podcast Row, teasing that she had found her legacy media-free safe space. 

The Gateway Pundit recently reported that the White House continues to make adjustments in kind with the evolving media landscape by relinquishing the far-left White House Correspondents’ Association’s iron grip over the White House Press Briefing Room seating chart.

Now, the White House will itself determine the Press Briefing Room seating chart – along with the press pool rotation in the Oval Office, Air Force One, and further distinguished locations.

Evidently, recent polling data suggests that the White House Correspondents’ Association has proven itself unfit to execute frontline journalistic duty for the American public in 2025, which no longer favors the dying mainstream media pool pushed by this Association.

In its wake, a revolutionary New Media headlined by podcasters have earned the right to serve as America’s chief political news correspondents.

Any preliminary research concerning the viral popularity of podcasts in America likely underestimates the ever-increasing podcast listenership. Still, the Pew Research Center determined in 2023 that 49% of Americans had listened to podcasts during the previous year.

Among the nearly half of all Americans who listened to podcasts, 67% of those respondents said the news was discussed on those podcasts, while 54% reported that they expected to hear political opinions on podcasts.

87% of respondents who claimed they listened to podcasts for news also said they expected to hear accurate news on those podcasts.

Markedly, 46% of lean-Republican respondents said they expected the news to be more accurate on podcasts than the news found elsewhere, while only 19% of lean-Democrat respondents believed podcasts to provide the most accurate news.

Still, 43% of the remaining lean-Republican respondents and 63% of the remaining lean-Democrat respondents agreed that podcasts provide news equal in accuracy to news found elsewhere.

Notably, 67% of respondents age 18-29 had listened to podcasts during the previous year, while only 28% of respondents age 65+ had listened to podcasts during the previous year.

This data suggests that a majority of American young adults and a majority of Republicans prefer the more uncensored podcast news to the traditional mass media replete with teleprompters and editors.

Moreover, Gallup reported in 2024 that Americans’ confidence in mass media had maintained a record low of 31% – strikingly low, compared to Americans’ 72% confidence in mass media circa 1976, and Americans’ 54% confidence in mass media as recently as 2003.

In 2024, President Trump expanded his support with voters age 18-29 to a whopping 46%, compared to his 35% mark with voters age 18-29 in 2020.

On the 2024 campaign trail, President Trump famously tapped into the upper echelon of the podcast circuit – an effort spearheaded in part by Barron Trump, who urged the president to expand his message to millions of listeners on certain viral podcasts. 

Today with the advent of Podcast Row, the White House will help usher in our modern media landscape.

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