Less than two weeks after making the surprise announcement that he was departing as correspondent for CBS News, Scott MacFarlane made another one on Monday: He’s joining MeidasTouch, the digital outlet that has made a mark with its biting content about Donald Trump.
MacFarlane is only the latest legacy media journalist to step into the growing space of podcast and social-media driven upstarts, this one unabashed in its point of view (its origins are in a political action committee) and one that has drawn an audience on the left that counters a slew of talking heads on the right. Last week, the MeidasTouch Podcast topped the YouTube charts, over figures like Joe Rogan, Candace Owens and Shawn Ryan.
In his announcement video, MacFarlane said that he is “not an opinionist, not an editorialist,” but will be an enterprise reporter across the MeidasTouch Network. He will be chief Washington
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