Thank you for sharing your valuable perspective and experience!

Its a great point, but i think minority voices are heard because of increased user generated content and i think corporate advertising can hurt and drown that out too

@jingyen00 Definitely! But it's way harder for them to do that now than back when the only "user generated content" available was on public access cable and UHF channels.

As a Non-American, social media has opened my eyes. I didn't realise how bad the crimes against darker skinned people were. I didn't realise how they are treated by the police. I got told that Israel was a nuanced subject. I didn't know about the Canadian genocides. History outside of Europe, beyond British occupation of India and parts of Africa, was just never taught here. Recent history has also been hidden, like the Thatcher's attacks on protesters, or the New-Cross Street Fire, or literally anything about the IRA. I just didn't know. School doesn't teach you even a tenth of information that should be essential learning imo. We should all know what our fellow human beings have been through. We have so much history recorded for the last 2500+ years, yet often the parts most relevant to us are deemed touchy subjects. ... Now I feel the urge to listen to "Mississippi, Goddamn!" Major thanks to the SMN team though. Without their moment by moment account of Uvalde, I wouldn't be the person I am. As a Brit, I didn't hear anything about it outside SMN and it showed me how trash the Police continue to be and how useless traditional media is.

They directly addressed this just 7 minutes in. Your statement could have been made without even watching this video. That isn’t to negate your point that the media has been either ignoring, misrepresenting, propagandizing, or demonizing the causes and plights of the poor and indigenous and minorities overall since the Dawn of journalism. But when the country was moving to the middle politically based on polling data from the 70s, big money conservative media sprang up to divide the nation and challenge the idea of impartial news and claim it was all a “leftist agenda.”No checks on verifiable fact in news media has further been lost of late, and that’s the degradation mentioned here.

It's not like the advertisers don't know what they're getting into.

@@SinHurr That said, the advertisers might not know which shows their ads will feature on, because the algorithm determines the audience profile. So there's this podcast called Behind the Bastards (Cody and Katy are reoccurring guests) that goes even further... The host often prefaces the ad break with something like: "You know who else engages in child trafficking?" or "You know who else carpet-bombs third world countries?" "The products and services that sponsor the podcast." Sometimes it goes the other way around: "Do you know who does not exploit child labor?" to which the producer of the show might chime in: "You can't guarantee that. We don't know!" There's even a running gag of an island where you can hunt people with real guns. I doubt anyone would want to advertise on that show. Part of the problem probably lies in the fact that while the algorithm can identify which audience cares about an issue, it can't really determine whether they're for or against, because that's not important. What matters is that people are fighting over it. So the people who love a thing or hate the thing might end up with the same marketing profile.

@@GuerillaBunny I literally just started listening to that podcast for the Kissinger episodes. Cody and Katy are in it?! Awesome!!

I think it's hypocritical

​@@sideshowmobYeah but the whole video is about how these concepts have forced journalists into this format. Even freelance novice journalists like SMN guy are victim to the throes of capitalism. Oh take me, money!

Knowledge is power, and power usually isn't free.

It has nothing to do with the button being small, it is programmed to open at the first click. So yeah, even more evil.

Maybe a drawing stylo can help? Those tablet pens?

They make the button smaller than the graphic

@@mreshadow yes but often make the button very very small and as a result very hard to press with your finger

@@Rodrat that was my point

And the line always goes up...until it doesn't.

there will be no survivors.. except wormbo

....don't piss me off.....😁

@@uriahheep5665 u'd rather be pissed on?

@@uriahheep5665 lights off lights on pissed off.. (cant say it cuz "on" gets censored in this context)

I just saw our local daily bought by a venture capitalist firm, and it's just a matter of time before they shrink the newsroom and squeeze out what profits they can. It's heartbreaking, but what's worse is people won't appreciate what they have until it's gone. And by then it'll be too late to replace the institutional knowledge and skill of the reporters they've lost. And local TV news is about to be utterly destroyed if sports are taken completely online, TV stations access to live sports was propping up tv journalism. It is so sad. I wish you the best friend🙏🏾

Man.. I dont think the 4th estate is a thing anymore is it?

If someone looked at my history of ad watching, they would think I was a fan. I have never intentionally looked at/watched an ad. And when I'm forced to, I use ads to figure out what NOT to buy. 🤷‍♀️

*coughs* AD BLOCKER *coughs*

Funny how small those buttons can be sometimes...

​@@ramblingsofadash5159I am not against ads when I get "free" content, but there seems to be a coding "error" that makes those skip ad buttons get really tiny, making you accidentally click the ad, probably betting these companies clicks somehow.

​@@ramblingsofadash5159I am not against ads when I get "free" content, but there seems to be a coding "error" that makes those skip ad buttons get really tiny, making you accidentally click the ad, probably betting these companies clicks somehow.

....sanity?...., whut dat?

...and a special place in hell for the UKposts exec that decided to ban adblockers. I'm just hoping that somebody can devise a long-lasting workaround. Since the end of last year the ad count has been driving me crazy...and often for the most irritating products to do with grift trading aps, 'webinars' offering 'passive income', and scummy influencers promising to 'unlock my inner potential'.

@@curmudgeon1933 hmm, i remember when i had to update ublock origin daily when youtube startet their BS. now i even forgot they are doing this stuff. ublock origin + firefox does it for me.

@@curmudgeon1933 There are still lots of adblockers that work, and many of them are actively working to circumvent youtube's restrictions. I've been using Ublock Origin since they started getting around the one built into my browser and haven't had a problem since. It's also open source which is nice, and helps them update quickly.

As should the people who keep updating the ad blockers to get around the new ones like UKposts tried to do xD

I hardly ever look for stuff like that, and we have a website here with a good reputation about PC stuff I sometimes consult (it's called Chip, I'm in Germany). But it's nice you share this tip, I'll remember it next time I need help solving a problem.

The trick is knowing which publishers or organisations specialise in providing the information you're looking for and then prefacing your search engine requests with " site:URL "

Bro are you in the same house, how he call you?

i m their boss. they re fired now.

is your boss Warmbo ?

quit bruh

There's no content consumption under capitalism.

In other words, selling you on premium 🤭

Unironically why I got UKposts premium.

Deep ocean is stupid with Old Gods. Practically tripping over them.

-Wormbo handles the cash flow of SMN

​@klisterklister2367 That's now cannon.

@klisterklister2367 that explains a lot actually. Also that's the first time I've seen his name spelt, I thought it was Warmbo, as in, like a warm boy. Is he more of a worm boy?? Should we be concerned???

​@@lilpetz500 You should always be concerned about Wormbo

National Geographic is still quite good, what drop in quality are you noticing. The topics are still very NG. Inca’s wild animals in cities, cultural sites, airplanes

Anything printed dropped the number of pages.

​@@MrJimheerenNG kept a lot of its quality. Its well composed photographs, its well reaserched articles. And... Lost a lot of quality. It became less Nat Geo hard hitting right in the emptions and more New Yorker milk toast.

I kinda wish you’d just updated your address to my apartment :/

⁠@@AnonymousAnarchist2 *Milque, don’t waste your milk.

What a meta way to answer their rhetorical title

There’s a site called 12ft which might help you out with that particular problem 👀

"Is paywalling the future? Subscribe now to find out!"

The thing is, news should either be something you pay for, or completely free. Instead it's in this weird world in between the two, because news orgs realize that if they had everyone pay for it, they'd die quickly, and if they went completely free, they'd die even quicker. This is usually when the government steps in and subsidizes, but of course everyone thinks that is just inherently bad, so it doesn't happen.

in a way paywalling makes sence, we are just so used to all being "free", like a normal newspaper costs money though you could often just go to the library and at least gets the yesterdays articles to read for free

and "most watched" heatmap enjoyers 😉

You can actually alter the amount you skip by 5sec intervals from 5-30 sec skips. I turned down myself.

Use revanced

L key -> skip 10 seconds Right arrow key -> skip 5 seconds . key -> skip 1 frame

3 - i broke my right key from overuse honestly if ur this kind of person get the chrome extension sponsorblock - it works on videos where point 2 doesnt apply as well

Same! 😂

I thought "nodding" was a typo xD

Haven’t seen the video yet, but am majorly excited to see Warmbo!

It better become a meme.

THIS

In my junior year of highschool I did a job shadow with a journalist from my local newspaper. We went around town meeting with some firefighters for interviews about a recent controlled burn of farmland and how all that works, got pictures of the middle school spelling bee, and then went back to the newspaper's office to do a mock interview. When we got there the person who was supposed to do the mock interview with me was out to lunch so the Head Editor / Owner of the paper said he'd do it instead. Despite being nervous as hell about that sudden change I rolled with it, and apparently did well because he said if I were out of school he would have hired me on the spot. A year later, I moved away. I sometimes regret not going back to see if he woulda kept his word on that job offer, but I also see how badly print media is doing and feel like I dodged a bullet. Ambivalence aside, it makes me sad. I would have liked to write for my hometown paper.

Hometown papers are where the art of journalism thrives. Sometimes we have to bite the financial bullet to do the good work.@@loorthedarkelf8353...after that, it's called 'experience".🙄

Journalists still have a very important role to play, especially in local media - and it saddens me that you didn’t finish the class, as the world needs ACTUAL Journalists who also have high integrity! I do get that today most well paid jobs for people with degrees in Journalism is in communication for large. Businesses and Corporations, and it’s not really what people with high integrity wants - and I also get the frustration many journalists feel when facing an audience who can’t tell the difference between an actual Journalist and a social media personality or a news anchor! But I assure you, we still need the REAL JOURNALISTS - and we’re still some who can tell the difference! I’m not saying that ALL "citizens journalism" is bad, but I sure wish they used another term for it - and people were a lot better at distinguishing between Journalists and people who just bought a microphone and a camera and now are giving their opinions! I’m lucky, I live in a country where Journalism is doing okay - but I do understand it must be frustrating pursuing a career where there are powerful people doing their very best to undermine the entire field of work!

​@@gorillaguerillaDK obviously real journalists are needed, without humans providing original writing, the AIs won't have anything to scrape.

@@mandarinduck Well, the AI's will just scrape various press releases - basically what they already do. And sure, then there are the large Press institutions such as AP and Reuters to steal from...

Something something money is the root of all evil

@@MomirsLabTech greed is, money is just a vehicle for it

It is not an individual problem. "greed of capitalists" is not the root cause. The root cause is hierachy and the greed for power which lead to capitalism in the first place.

​@@MomirsLabTech Not all evil. Just most of it.

@@gulaschnikov5335 but but ... lobsters!

It really was something special, wasn't it? Not just the lists but columnists, podcasts, videos... it was a mark of quality once. Shame the way it went.

You could tell who wrote each article within the first paragraph. Ironically, I wasn't a fan of Cody's articles, but I dig how he evolved. Life's funny sometimes.

Yea I first saw Cody on a brief scene in an After Hours vid. Used to watch that stuff constantly

I actually made real-life friends because of Cracked that all started because one of us finally noticed we kept liking each other's comments on the articles. Never found that kind of camaraderie again on any other website

I miss Cracked so fucking much. Without it, I may have never discovered The Showdy and I wouldn't have been so into politics is a teenager. I probably wouldn't be the person I am today without The Showdy, all because I was looking for something to fill the time between new episodes of Cracked - After Hours.

It makes me question what stops all other forms of media from doing the same, like TV or newspapers

@@illusion9423 They are though, newspapers are filled with ads and articles that are meant to sell copies or push the opinions of the writer/ediitor. Television is filled with ads both on commercial breaks and also stuffed into every moment of every show. Characters clothing, accesories, and food are all ads. The internet is just the next evolution, the tools available are more powerful, and the reach is even greater. Not to mention like a boiled frog we are already really well adjusted to the hot water we are in.

​@@illusion9423ummmm tv and newspapers already are massive vessels for ads. Do you think tv channels make tv because they like the art of making visual media? no they want decent enough content to lure people in so they can show them ads.

IIRC the dude who came up with the idea of selling ad space instead of charging money directly to the users later very much came to regret that decision.

​@@illusion9423... They ended the same. And it was no small part that the ads that killed TV and prints I watched it happen first hand. Why pay for a print thats 60% ads when you can gey it for free online with a donation based website? Or an ad based website, but for free with charming little ads on the margin of the screen, targeted to the arcticle. Then the web crash, and web 2.0 rolled out... So much for the libritarian communist beacon of hope, the pinnicle of liberty and libary the mimeograph the blank panthers wished they had. No. it was a @#%&ing shopping mall now and still is

Pulitzer also beat down the newsie strike of 1923. By relentlessly beating up children who wanted a fair wage for their labor

I delivered papers in the 90's and couldn't figure out why the luddites didn't just get their information off the internet back then. Internet most certainly hasn't killed journalism. I'm personally a fan of sharpening critical thinking skills and doing your own research. This episode feels a bit hypocritical, assuming Cody and co. consider themselves "journalists" and not left wing ideologues pimping snake oil in between opinion pieces.

@@rustyshackle917 SMN team understands that their audience are largely anti-capitalist so are less likely to be influenced by paid ads. In case you were unaware, you can skip paid ad content by waiting for the red line on the edge of the screen go away. They like their viewers like that. Their ads are also really funny sometimes. I think there's a dialectic between internet hurting and helping journalism and by denying that it is hurting journalism you deny the dialectic and are probably not reliable. The Internet has sped up the rate of news, making it harder to control the narrative. But it also made it easier for billionaires to buy out the media, which controls the narrative.

​@@rustyshackle917I don't have the time or desire to invest a year into breaking the Jeffrey Epstein scandal happening 2 states away from me. I have a life while you're obviously a sad pathetic little nerd that yearns for the glory days of being a hall monitor.

​@@rustyshackle917The fact you thought people could use the internet in the 90's is an very telling thing. Since it want NOT until the 2000's that a majority of households even had a computer. You where spoiled kid. Privledged and probably still are

Or touch screen clicks, the number of times I've tried to scroll only go "click" an ad

Yeah, I think he was being a little unkind when he said the 0.05% click through rate was indicative of our society. I think it's more indicative of people accidentally clicking on the ad.

Companies: * Never does anything fun or positive to society because of """brand risk""" * Also Companies: * Methodically and scientifically finds new ways to make their products LESS MARKETABLE, casually jumps into incredibly illegal actions with little to no actual benefit to them *

As a marketer who’s a true believer in the discipline having the capacity to bring a net good to the world, it’s beyond frustrating to work in it now when it’s pretty much destroying the world and I hate so, so much of it. I work with my clients to do things differently.

​@@pensivelyrebelling Out of curiosity: How do you expect marketing to bring a net good to the world? You say it's frustrating NOW - does that mean you remember some "better times" when marketing was "the good guy?"

@@weareallbornmad410 I’m glad you asked. Here’s my take: at its core, marketing is about helping someone with a problem find a solution, and it can be raising awareness. That’s a neutral pursuit in general but it can be great when needs are critical and morally indefensible if it’s all manipulation. What we experience an overwhelming (and increasing) amount today is manipulation to encourage rampant consumerism. Has marketing ever done good in the world? Sure. But it’s usually related to social good or just letting people know where things they need happen to be. Capitalism (and tech is leading this) has taken the good parts and twisted them into something that’s about serving the interests of a corporation rather than meeting the needs of the people. A lot of people differentiate these things by calling the social good communications and the profit-driven work is marketing. But when you get to the root of both, it’s not that different and in today’s world they’re blending into one in most orgs. The kind of marketing I encourage my clients to use isn’t leveraging private data, advertising, and other manipulative tactics. Instead, I advocate educating consumers with information they can use, building trust with a genuine desire to help and that can and does eventually lead to sales. It’s slower to grow and it won’t make most folks rich. But it doesn’t have to be constant pressure to buy to be effective. And I’ve never really wanted riches. My clients are small business owners and non-profits, so I can help them navigate the capitalist hellscape within their values instead of compromising them (or mine). I won’t work with startups whose only interest is in getting acquired - been there, done that, hated every minute of it. Because that’s where the real principles of marketing become irrelevant since the only thing that matters is making the line go up - there’s no long-term plan to build anything that lasts. That’s a fundamental difference between most small business and the tech startup world/other private equity-driven industries. I get why marketing has a terrible reputation - and I don’t even disagree because I know what’s driving the frustration people have and I share it. The discipline of marketing (generally speaking) isn’t the problem, though. This is all tech and the unrealistic drive for perpetual growth. I could go on and on and on after working briefly with an ad tech and data marketplace years ago.

@@weareallbornmad410 I replied to this days ago and UKposts ate it or something. Here’s the gist: The discipline of marketing boils down to a goal of connecting people with a problem to the right solution, but how that happens isn’t so simple. The practices people use that have given marketing a totally justified bad reputation are exploitative and manipulative. It’s an active choice businesses make, though. They can be principled in the marketing approach but that doesn’t make the line go up fast enough. It’s also decided based on incomplete understanding of what marketing is. I’ve been hired by startup CEOs and my question for them is: What’s your end goal? Do you want to really build something valuable for the people you serve or is the goal to be acquired? There are depressingly few whose objective isn’t to be acquired. After all, that’s where they get their big payoff, and none of them care what happens to the people who work for them, or their customers who rely on what they’ve built. All of that is why I’ve chosen to work only with small, independent businesses and not-for-profit orgs. The people I work with aren’t interested in manipulating people or exploiting their data. They understand perpetual growth isn’t realistic and they define growth in ways that go beyond increased revenue. If I’m working with values based businesses and orgs doing good in the world, my marketing skills are benefitting people in tangible ways rather than filling the pockets of already privileged, greedy people with more money. To me, that’s a net good and my personal little act of resistance. I also encourage my clients to push back on common beliefs and expectations about how marketing works. For example, I tell my clients not to participate in Black Friday/Cyber Monday nonsense because the noise is already ridiculous and the effort isn’t worth the results for most small businesses. In the same vein, I almost never recommend advertising. Why jump on a bandwagon that isn’t likely to benefit you? I don’t think there’s ever been a golden age of marketing because IMHO it’s a discipline that can be used for either good or ill. But marketing isn’t well understood at all. Most people think of the promotion aspects only (including most CEOs and board members). The truth is marketing SHOULD touch just about every aspect of a business when it’s being done right. A lot of aspects of marketing are basics that business owners figured out instinctively or through experimentation. Hang up a sign so they know you’re there. Set prices that people can and will pay based on the cost and value of a product. We’ve made the world more complicated and marketing is, too, especially if you don’t like to use manipulative tactics and exploit personal data. The choice not to do those things is one people make with the full understanding that it will most likely limit their growth trajectory. But the people who make that choice also aren’t the type to want to become ultra wealthy. They just want to live and do work they enjoy that does good for their niche. Some of them are even not okay with the capitalist system and this is one small way of pushing back against it.

We would simply be unfulfilled and void of the good, hard, stiff truth.

lubrication may be needed. What's that crap he's drinking? @@NewRedYolk

You wouldn't be able to come.......across reliable showdies like Cody's Showdy Wody

Girthy news

@@kegsofvomitspit Garth!

Wishing you success on whatever you're researching that for! 💖

Someone has never seen Map Men!

Mista GG turns every ad into a song, and it's pretty cool, everytime.

SciFi - “Contemplate the ( sometimes unintended) consequences of emerging technologies and realize that such developments have the power to influence huge parts of our existence, our daily lives, and our very perception of ourselves in relation to our world and each other. Remember that technology is inevitably bound to deeper issues of philosophy including ethics. Tread forward thoughtfully.” CEOs: “Will the monkey brain chips make us money?”

This butch has several pair. So what's the bugaboo?😮

​@@patludwig1971it's a movie, chief.

Is that the movie who's ads were all just shots of famous people making single syllable sounds?

...huh?....😃@@Whystling_Byrd

you have a face face too? I thought I was the only one

@@3n3my33is that what they mean when they call someone ‘two-faced’? 🧐

This comment almost feels like poetry. I bet you are a good journalist!

Glory to me, the 69th like. Also hope the kid is doing well.

See I’m having the opposite problem recently. Half my feed is now just completely random topics that I have never watched lol.

I've found the best way to find new shit on this site is to just search for stuff you're interested in rather than relying on the algorithm. You'll get 15 terrible videos and 5 good ones but 1 in 4 isn't bad.

no you HEAR OR READ more about those places than your local area, and most of what you hear or read is at best misleading or at worst an outright lie in service of creating sensationalist media that brings eyes to websites and tv channels for the purpose of generating ad revenue which is maintaining the long dead corpse of capitalism. Which was the whole point of this video. Thanks for missing the point? I guess?

Like some sort of Pavlov's News Dog.

HEARTHEE HEARTHEE! 🎉

Loved the ag1 direct quote

Same

Television was originally free, wireless, and paid for by ads. Then cable came along. Look at the media market now. Apply that to everything and you can see the future.

As someone who works in SEO, search engines are starting to work on readability (there's a lot of focus now on content structure); are trying (and failing) at reputation - because reputation is measured primarily by popularity, although they are starting to implement things like ratings and reviews in site reputation scoring; still see accessibility through an ableist lens (alt text? you should have it because it's readable by bots! ... what do you mean it's used for screen readers?); have no indicia of paywalled content (which is ironic since paywalls usually result in a high bounce rate, which they say they care about); and I'm not even sure how they could manage accuracy on the scale of The Internet - nor would I trust them to be fact checkers as they have no neutrality. The latest push has been on "helpful" content which is aimed at promoting genuine information and responses that respond to the queries that searchers use - but unfortunately it ended up targeting a lot of the wrong sites in the process, and the major problem (SEO shilling in product marketing) still remains or has gotten worse since.

If you're asking, it's too late

Interesting.

I hope you find something way better, you deserve it. 🫂

it was so cringe

I can imagine, studying what you should do while watching people in the industry you are aiming to be part of just actively failing on the basics like asking 'what evidence do you have for that?' and 'why?'.

Part of the problem? 🤔

It's called Churnalism: the decline of investigative journalism in favor of the much cheaper practice of repackaging publicly available material like press conferences, preferably with a political slant. Basically every news outlet does this now, even large and respected organizations like the Washington Post. (Come to think of it, Churnalism is basically SMN whole job. They do it very well though, and don't claim to actually be journalists, so I'm not complaining.)

@@woozybydefault It doesn't even stop at "press releases" - often these organizations have direct ties to those who they are reporting on, meaning they often also have access to communication and information that is not public. Or, hypothetically speaking; the ability to receive orders of what to say and when to say it, but surely that'd never happen right?

Algorithms used to be our friend, now it just surrounds you in a bubble of repetition.

@@nerfherder4284 I must scream, but have no clout.

Interesting recommendations! I think I will check out the newsflesh series. And I will tell you and I was hired as an online multimedia journalist nine years ago. Now I was initially paid $36,400 dollars a year without health benefits and did not receive a cost of living increase or raise for 4 years so...do with that information what you will. Hopefully you will find it affirming?🤷🏽‍♀️ Wishing you the best fellow journo!

Also... Coke Is It!!! 😅

I think that even more than watching him trying to choke that slop down is the way he says "AG1 says ghat AG1 meets your nutritional needs!"

In Germany millions and millions of people watch the tagesschau every day. It's a state funded news segment that prides itself with being incredibly neutral, condensed information. (there is sometimes an additional segment called Brennpunkt if not everything fits in the 15 min) The show is incredible honestly.