and first black head coach in the league. he passed away at the age much 88. nichelle nichols from star trek s original television series passed away at age 89. joining us is author of the book zero o clock cj farley. what beautiful long lives they both lived, but what a loss. it is a loss. bill russell, this guy, we were talking about it, the winningest winner ever to win in the nba. i mean, 11 championships and 13 seasons. that s an incredible record. plus two college championships and an olympic gold medal. he literally changed the game because he before him, the game was really more horizontal. he made it vertical. he was a guy that rebounded like crazy. used his smarts to create fast breaks and outlet passes and made the game faster. he really changed what the game was about on and off the court. you know, when he joined the league, only 15 black players in the nba.
has chosen joe rogan over tphaoepl young. the rock legend gave an ultimatum demanding his music be removed from the platform if rogue rogan s remains on it. he said he is spreading fake information about vaccines. it didn t take spotify very long to decide here. today s other hot-button issues, cultural commentator and author of rear row owe clock, c.j. farley and cnn commentator scott jennings. scott, to you first. it was okay, we ll stick with joe rogan. reporter: the business case is quite obvious. they pay joe rogan $100 million for the biggest podcast in the world. 11 million listeners every day. this is one of their biggest entities. the idea they would side with neil young over this is crazy.
on one hand this idea look, there are many people who share scott s view, which is if you re talking about race in a certain way in school, it s in doctrination, even arguing saying you don t want joe rogan on the air, that is condemning free speech. yeah. i think we have to separate out the idea that we are talking about facts, things that are factually wrong. hundreds of doctors have come out and said certain things that joe rogan said on the air that were factually incorrect, and talking about ideas of free marketplace of ideas where you can debate things and talk about things and talk about various ideas. and i think you have to separate out the two competing ideas there, the idea about facts that can be wrong or right, and ideas where people can be differing opinions about what they mean. scott, c.j., thanks to both of you. thank you. reporter: thank you.
new overnight, joe rogan has responded to the backlash he received over covid misinformation on his podcast. if there s anything that i ve done that i could do better is have more experts with differing opinions right after i have the controversial ones. my pledge to you is that i will do my best to try to balance out these more controversial viewpoints with other people s perspectives so we can maybe find a better point of view. i don t want to just so show the contrary opinion to what the narrative is. i want to show all kinds of opinions. this comes after several artists pulled their content from spotify prompting the platform to add a content advisory warning to any podcast that featured discussion about the pandemic. joining us now, cultural commentator and author of zero owe clock, c.j. farley.
attributed to joni mitchell that joni mitchell didn t sing, chucky s in love. i think they ve got to do more. just to say we have an advisory, publishing platform rules, we will do better in the future and test things out, is it maybe enough to help stall the news cycle but won t be enough to give people confidence on what people are saying on the platform in the future. c.j., if he is promising he will balance views, one, do you take him at his word and, two, what does it look like to be effective? it is part of journalism. they don t want to accept the responsibility of journalists. it is like someone doing an appendix operation and not washing their hands and saying, well, i m not a doctor, so i don t have to do that.