The 2000 Year Decline Of Journalism

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We couldn’t agree on whether it was black and blue or white and gold! People were at each
other’s throat all because of differences between eyes or device screens. It’s no wonder
journalism has polarized us: we were already polarized!
Of course, it didn’t start out like this. Right? Surely there was a time from the good ole days
where newspapers told the truth, journalists couldn’t be bought out and consumers were
never stuck in echo chambers.
You probably already know what your position on this question is. Even comedian Bill Burr
laments a time when you didn’t know how your local weatherman voted. Then again, Noam
Chomsky believes it’s always been the case that media outlets have had a secret agenda.
Although, he did doubt initials claims of the Cambodian genocide, which turned out to be
true. Maybe he knows as little as a stand-up comic?
Is there a grain of truth in journalism today or is objectivity like finding a needle in a hay
stack? Is it true that there’s no such thing as bad news and is the future of journalism one of
tribalism? The good news is you can relax. It doesn’t matter whether you wear a tin foil hat - or are
thinking of wearing one!
So it's time to learn How History Works because today, we’re going to fact-check the fact-checkers.
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3. www.britannica.com/biography/...
4. www.thoughtco.com/penny-press...
5. www.history.com/news/spanish-...
pulitzer
6. www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...
the-celebrity-scandal
7. www.archbridgeinstitute.org/a...
transformed-journalism/
8. www.biography.com/movies-tv/w...
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10. www.washingtonpost.com/outloo...
11. www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/bu...

[@HowHistoryWorks]

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[@ElectrostatiCrow]

The nerd "fact checker" Vs The chad "It came to me in a dream."

[@ericjohnson5912]

Modern historians: “According to this research, there was a 12% spike in banana prices between 1908-1909, which suggests a posible inflation rate of 8%, but there’s really no way to be sure…” Ancient Historians: “My wife’s third cousin was at this battle. Let me tell you exactly what the Generals said the morning of…”

[@PXAbstraction]

Clickbait is frowned upon, but as this very platform demonstrates, it still works. If you click on clickbait, you're letting them play you.

[@garrettrinquest1605]

Yeah. Journalism has always had a pretty large share of bad actors. The only difference is nowadays, we can tell that there's something fishy going on a lot easier. Propoganda is a lot harder when there's many different groups trying to push different things

[@getnohappy]

Also the sheer quantity of actors. Easy to fix pollution when it's caused by obvious large factories, harder when it's thousands of anonymous individuals taking a dump in the drinking water

[@vebdaklu]

In reality, propaganda just changes forms. For instance, modern blockbusters are a good example of pop culture embedding political notions (like in Marvel movies, for example the idea that people complaining about overpopulatuon and resources secretly just want to kill half the population and must be stopped at any cost, or that if current establishment has bad ideas about immigration they should just be told "do better or more terrorists will strike" instead of overthrowing them and bringing in new people, basically most are pro-status quo messages). Propaganda is alive and well, and it's effective because you don't see it, it works by ommision now.

[@tomlxyz]

But at the same time fringe ideas with no proofs whatsoever spread faster than ever

[@Maelstromme]

Fairness doctrine is gone

[@zandreblondin8880]

@@tomlxyzexactly, and it clearly isnt about being convincing or looking genuine with misinformation. I think in the beginning, misinformation had a kind of thrown together, organic look to it so it would stand apart from the “billionaires’ propaganda” that looked official and well-funded so to speak. But now it’s so obvious that people just dont care that their information looks sketchy and could even be disproved with a minute amount of critical thinking. It’s a much bigger issue than bad journalism, it’s that people are willing to subscribe to blatant lies just so they can be part of a group and belong somewhere. Western people are depressed and lonely, and we need to focus on why that is and how we can fix it.

[@DirtyDog97]

I hate how even those journalism institutions I would regard as (comparably) the most respectable have scammy clickbait ads all over their sites.

[@oriontigley5089]

They have to. They quite literally can't survive in the modern media sphere without them. It's a sad truth but you can't beat the cheater by playing fair

[@intellectually_lazy]

@@oriontigley5089 you can't beat the house playing their game. time we make a new one

[@mRahman92]

I'm surprised he didn't have a sponsorship section dedicated to Ground News. These days, truly, the feelings don't care about your facts.

[@edugaya]

"We're going to fact-check the fact-checkers" "Hey, I've heard that one before"

[@bamafencer12]

When I was younger I wanted to be a news reporter. When I got to college around the start of then twitter, I lost my love for it and switched majors. Glad I did.

[@unconventionalideas5683]

I think we can anticipate demands in the future with enough active effort, but I think social media has sent a wake-up call to those who believed that regulations are evil. They are there for a reason, written in the blood of those who died or were mutilated in their absence, and that is no different for media and journalism in all forms.

[@MementoVita]

That Noam Chomsky roast is appreciated as it is underrated😂👏

[@eeyorehaferbock7870]

Agreed. In a more just world, that guy would’ve been shunned every bit as much as Holocaust deniers like David Irving. Instead, people refused to acknowledge that he was a serial charlatan, and a whole subculture of conspiracy-minded fringe leftists popped up around him as a result. What’s ironic about the whole thing is that his academic specialty was not politics but rather linguistics, and I’ve heard that even in that field there’s long been debate over how honest he’s actually been with his findings. AND YET, I’ve been seeing ads within the past year for courses he “teaches” on disinformation sponsored by MasterClass in spite of the fact that he’s still denying genocide, this time in Ukraine. Dude’s almost as old as Henry Kissinger was when he passed away several weeks ago, and he’s damn near untouchable as far as accountability goes.

[@MementoVita]

@@eeyorehaferbock7870 Wow. Can’t believe he’s still on his genocide denying and is even spreading that misinformation on something that is literally happening right now. God I don’t like that guy

[@eeyorehaferbock7870]

@@MementoVita as a younger guy who used to be impressionable, I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt for his past statements. But yeah, he’s definitely crossed the line of redeemable credibility by now.

[@andreluizteske7966]

This video calmed me down, i was thinking that society was just getting dumber and dumber, and the quantity of click baits where a reflex of that, but actually sociaty is getting back to be dunber, which means in the future this will ocillate back

[@RFDN0]

A person can be smart. People are dumb. At its core, journalism has been about controlling the masses. Information is power, and bias always exists. There is honestly little more to say than that. Humanity sucks but we have no reason to believe any other type of lifeforms would be better.

[@Cheattoe]

9:29 you said the school of journalism and I’m having flash backs to seeing Shepard smith being trashed by Fox News for having just a shred of integrity because that’s what the university of Mississippi taught was integrity and learning from the past it’s a shame he went to work for Fox News in the first place

[@blackhaulmike]

I love that jab into Chomsky. F that guy

[@howtoappearincompletely9739]

Indeed. The Cambodian genocide isn't the only genocide he has denied and continues to deny.

[@MrHav1k]

That was the greatest Segway into the sponsor for this episode ever lol.

[@carmalinekeshi9296]

Edward R. Murrow preceded Kronkite. CNN debuted two decades before Fox. Gawker didn't go 'bust' it was sued out of existence by Peter Thiel using Hulk Hogan as proxy.

[@hideousruin]

Both of them were avowed Communists. They are merely two exhibits in the endless museum of left-wing plaster saints.

[@peterfmodel]

Good video and very true. These days if i see any click bait heading i avoid it, especially the "And its not what you think" and questions, which always have an answer of "No", because if it was yes it would not be a question.

[@Socioromanticism]

I was fully expecting the end of the video to end with an ad for Ground News.

[@Matthieu5555]

A comment for the algorithm. Superb work, very insightful !

[@bankruptWoodenSandals]

musk's twitter Notes is the best thing ever, need that same everywhere but bet corrupted politicians hate it.

[@ikhbjhbkm5]

We kinda had it until like 2016 or whenever all the media sites got together and decided we couldn't have comment sections anymore.

[@Rohald20]

On the contrary, it's the shittiest thing ever. Consensus enforced by the mob. I hate it so much.

[@user-nt4mx4lh4h]

It’s important to remember that even if journalists have an obligation to report the unbiased truth, news outlets are still businesses. This means they will do what it takes to sell issues and/or find paid advertisers.

[@kte-5716]

I believe there is hope. People will start flocking to sources that do not abuse them or prey on biases. People are sick of pandering.

[@bobSeigar]

The Printing press also Destroyed countless written languages, double writing and made Cryptography about a million times harder.

[@iamchato]

I stay optimistic about it. No reason why. I just do.

[@georgesmith4768]

This video kind of deals like it’s missing a lot. Even before proper mass news papers journalism was fairly dubious and definitely not unbiased, just look at the dynamics of pro-slavery and abolishonist newspapers in the US. The journalism was sometimes genuinely good but all of the papers where pretty much information arms of social or political movements, that’s a big part of how they convinced people to pay as much as they did. There very much was ‘serious’ journalism in the yellow press days, some muckrakers became national celebrities. There was massive government censorship and control that came with WW1, this helped draw lines between ‘unserious’ (the censors don’t care what you are saying) ans ‘serious’ journalism and pushed towards a concensus on what was acceptable of serious journalism. WW2 real cemented the ‘journalistic method’ since they allowed negative stories to be published, part of a propaganda model where the government genuinely gave journalists some space to work so they could become reliable in the eyes of the public and both manage war expectations when things went poorly while giving credibility to successes. Television journalism got a good reputation in large parts do to rules requiring ‘unbiased’ coverage, which meant that most major political factions found it acceptable. This fell apart when the republicans moved right and no longer found the space and narratives acceptable as “the news” satisfactory so they just scrapped to whole system. That’s why cable news not only emerged but became polarized. ‘Impartial’ journalism was created. Journalism school was not just for teaching how to do reporting better but also how to report ‘correctly’, to provide recruits who where socialized to think and operate in a manner that conformed with the desired media landscape. When the consensus fell apart journalism returned to historical form

[@Padtedesco]

Your critic is on point. Also, Reagan administration openned the way to the Murdock model, making large conglomerates and throwing fact checking out.

[@josephvisnovsky1462]

Scribe's manuscripts do not begin with embroidery. Chapters began with illumination. Embroidery had been used to repair holes in velum, especially in bibles.

[@armorbearer9702]

I sense a pattern. New printing technology come out and people want more immediate and salacious news. Time sets in and people get tired of lack of professionalism and the news starts getting more grounded and factual. Some new technology comes out and the cycle repeats.

[@user-nv9jn7su3u]

8:10 if someone interested - it's Russian gazette from imperial time. In this frame featured advertisement of: people who wished to find spouse or can help to find one (center), English teachers (left), and babysitters (right). Time passes, but nothing changes)

[@Del_987]

Always down for a good Chomsky dab

[@alexs_toy_barn]

Noam Chomsky was also a supporter of the Serbian side in the yugoslav wars and is a denier of the many genocides that that regime commited, he was always horrible, most people were just too tribal and were in support of his other horrible claims about the US to admit it

[@howtoappearincompletely9739]

Agreed. The guy should've stuck to linguistics.

[@intellectually_lazy]

tv ad, ca 1993, open on small girl in front of multi-laned road: "imagine there was a superhighway, but for information." then my memory conflates it with that boy that says, zoom zoom, in a much later ad for, idk, cars?

[@epicstarstv]

???

[@isbestlizard]

God I love how incomprehensible political cartoons from the past are literally every metaphor like wtf is a 'bill napoleon' and why can't he spell correctly? why is a dude holding a $ sign on a pole? 16:04 they're all like this I could spend days looking through old newspapers for that feel of wtf is any of this?

[@isbestlizard]

why is he wearing a collar with a pole labelled 'bill raines' lol

[@akumaking1]

There needs to be a return to real news again. Stop the glorification of urinalists.

[@ThinkTwice2222]

Napoleon mastered the pen more than he ever did the sword

[@karyldavidkidd7111]

Absolutely brilliant video. This channel always produces solid material. This one is above the brilliant average. GG

[@naptimelaser]

You listed ‘history’ twice in your Curiosity Stream ad

[@intellectually_lazy]

we used to use those metal cases the aol discs came in to carry weed, like people still do with this tins from the disgusting mints, but there was more surface area to roll up on

[@mohibquadri4053]

In my country it has become a Joke we no longer call them as Journalists.

[@Matt_Dylan]

You should put the title in the thumbnail. I only clicked because I saw the title and was like oh s*** I have to watch this. I didn't look who posted it or anything else. That's a good sign that you have a good title.

[@epicstarstv]

A bad title would be "Why journalism is declining" But "2000 years" sells it away instantly Banger title

[@intellectually_lazy]

when i was about 10, i think it was coqui roberts, hosted a special on nickelodeon, explaining to children some of the ways the media and advertisers misrepresent things. i've always admired that

[@intellectually_lazy]

ralph nader too. he used to host consumer reports. there was a magzine too, and, i think there still is the consumer movement. he's still around, and i hear interviews with him frequently. i voted for him when he ran for president too

[@abdirahmanbadal781]

Gutenberg got the technology from the Chinese .You have to give them the credit .

[@ronblack7870]

and the chinese spread it to the whole world ?. NOT !. it's not who invents it but who makes it widespread . apple didn't invent the smartphone or the mouse or most of their stuff as an example. also is there evidence guttenburg got the idea from the chinese? multiple people can invent stuff in multiple places.

[@PhilipJFry-qh2jg]

...says the Chinese

[@enkephalin07]

You really compressed that history. That's the highest compliment I have for this.

[@morezco]

bit harsh innit

[@howtoappearincompletely9739]

You appear to damn him with faint praise, sir.

[@vincewhite5087]

Campbells’s Interpretive journalism, grew after Vietnam

[@isbestlizard]

The past is probably the nearest thing I'll get to experiencing anything alien yet intelligent in that boring few hundred years exploration interregnum. I wonder when AIs and supercomputers could build like minecrafty simulations of the past but do it with millions of agents all having language models generating their inner monologues and I'd get to just wander around fully functioning Roman cities heck that'd be fun

[@osochara]

Hey! I show up in the comments you highlighted ! 😮

[@HowHistoryWorks]

Congrats!

[@akumaking1]

@@HowHistoryWorksare you uploading on other sites just in case OurTube decides to strike you

[@SusCalvin]

If you make a mistake hand-copying a page you can forget it, add a correction in the margins or redo that individual page.

[@ShortVersion1]

A big issue for me, is how older family trust corporate media. Some rando in a suit is more trustworthy to them, whereas a massive turnoff to me. I see news anchors and morning show hosts as slimy and gross, and am way more likely to believe a first-hand youtube account of foreign lands, for example.

[@papierbak]

Humanity probably peeked around the 80' / 0'

[@brotendo]

Is there a company behind this channel and How Money Works, or are you a one-man show?

[@f1rst_pancake]

Basically: we need to be told what to do (and think) by authoritative persons which will undoubtedly not be us. 🎉

[@NathanielMetrock]

I like your ending "invitation to engage", it felt far more caring than the traditional like-subscribe blast we usually hear. Thank you for that. As for my comment on the content, IAMA optimist. I believe that we the people of earth will continue to grow collectively smarter, and I appreciate your note on how the tides are turning against click bait, etc. knowledge is power, and individuals will continue to learn and grow from their experiences. Left Wing Fundamentalism, Liberal Bigotry, aka "cancel culture", is doomed to fail. Don't believe me? Just keep watching KZbin, like this video, because as the outcry grows, so too will these fragile empires of 'controlling the masses' will fall. As I recently discussed with my 16y/o, history will put these tyrants in their place. Universities will be a place of creativity and diversity once again. It just might take... 10... 20... probably not longer than 30.... but maybe as long 50 years. But it will happen in our Millennial's lifetime. We are smarter than this, and the video I just watched is part of the growing proof. Thanks for reading :)

[@ThinkTwice2222]

Today news = opinion... So there's no such thing as truth

[@albertwarsaw6568]

There are good news sites that source every single thing they say if you know how to find them : TLAV, The Corbett Report, Unlimited Hangout, etc. They are heavily suppressed so it is very hard to find them for people who don't know about them.

[@sookendestroy1]

Fun fact Noam chomsky also had some really sketchy takes about the russian invasion of ukraine and the whole Bosnia/Kosovo conflict. That there was no genocide being attempted there. Basically just look at Russian state takes on them and that's about what his are too.

[@kushyglowy8409]

Super interesting. Thank you!

[@intellectually_lazy]

those real ancient accounts seem to spend a lot of time describing armor and boxes and stuff like that. they're like mr. blackwell or something

[@GenXican84]

Some tslking heads say theyre ",commentators " not journalists..

[@intellectually_lazy]

i'm old, and i 'member stuff. sometimes i feel like winston from 1984. i know the template, winston, june, irl anne

[@jjsmida5402]

🔥

[@packmarathon]

12:58 i woulda swiped right

[@sourabhmayekar3354]

Nice

[@pradhyudh]

"The Print" in india does really good real factual journalism.

[@pj_ytmt-123]

Pillars - Print - TV - Internet - 'news' written by A.I. fed directly to your brains, modulating your mood synapses - The End. 💀

[@intellectually_lazy]

this is a message in a bottle

[@ElBach1y]

Noam Chomsky just looooves denying genocides huh

[@tutacat]

No, the difference with the dress was the camera. It was washed out, so the dress was over exposed, it is obviously black and blue if you understand it's washed out.

[@ThirdHorseman]

For a view of journalism in America watch Citizen Kane.

[@RobVI]

15:42 you said breaking the news twice

[@howtoappearincompletely9739]

It's a play on the multiple meanings: To break the news is to be the first to disseminate a piece of news. To break the news is also to break (destroy) the news (the means by which information of current events is disseminated).

[@RobVI]

@howtoappearincompletely9739 okay, I thought he was trying to say "breaking news" vs. "breaking the news," but that makes sense as well.

[@inthevault9603]

6:12 you just reminded me that I need Ovaltine. No joke. 😂😂😂

[@SagaciousBoothe]

Noam Chomsky hung out with JE and Woody Allen. So ya know...

[@Eric1396]

The AI generated image you used at 6:15 is soo bad. Nightmare fuel!

[@sookendestroy1]

What about tabloid journalism, the land of murdoch

[@nomanejane5766]

Wait, what?! Wtf u said what about him NC and doubting the Cambodian Genocide. Crazy 😊

[@ElBach1y]

based

[@LennarthAnaya]

this is just one example why Capitalism is not progress, as people tend to believe. The same happens with virtually everything, medicine, knowledge, law. I'm not advocating for Socialism, we need critical thinkers that recognize the flaws of everything

[@AwesomeHairo]

You misused a comma.

[@taskermorris]

Exactly flow as wisecrack. Lazy

[@tavaineclarkerealitytv]

Aerope not Europe

[@Nope_handlesaretrash]

Journalism was always shite though, yellow journalism was even worse before the internet era.

[@jerbear7952]

Bill Burr is a comedian?

[@ronblack7870]

the best

[@tavaineclarkerealitytv]

Athens pilie

[@tavaineclarkerealitytv]

Athenian Empire not Roman Empire

[@juangonzalezblanco8806]

It's always been white and gold

[@MrStoyan5]

This video is so confusing

[@nearlyhuman1374]

This was a nothing burger. With so much wrong in the media, and so many things that could rather have been said, this video has nothing to say.

[@a.taylor8294]

Uhhhhh, does it seem weird to anyone else that a piece claiming to speak on so wide of a topic as "journalism" and so long of a timespan as 2,000 years is ONLY speaking on the Caucasian component of human history?

[@albutnotquitemost]

Incredibly odd dig at Chomsky, whose theory should naturally inform a video like this.

[@carlosr6597]

I hated Trump up until 2020. After doing my own research, I realized the news like CBS, NBC, and even my once beloved Stephen Colbert had been lying to me.

[@p1ounce]

LOL you are the mark

[@yantokki92]

lol you should stick to finance

[@jamesweldon8118]

Tucker is one of the last good journalists alive

[@bg8753]

The creator of this video is going to great lengths to create a thread that spans 200 years. The reality is that the period of time we’re going through today, and the debased nature of journalism today, is more of a function of the female dominance of the profession than anything else. Yellow journalism in the past was the result of something else. To equate the two is dishonest.

[@hideousruin]

The fact you use Tucker as representative of a decline shows your far left-wing bias without even having to watch the video. Anyone that knows a bit of history concerning journalism and that knows even a little bit about the nature of history itself knows the title of the video is preposterous. "History was written by the winners" is a cliche for a reason. Cliches do not just spring spontaneously from the minds of their creators.

[@CheekClapper69420]

LOL roasting Cucker Carlson, NICE

[@firesideshats]

What has happened in the west is rupert murdoch especially in Australia has brought back the modern version of yellow journalism, which has total fcked everything.

[@berserkasaurusrex4233]

Didn't realize he owned literally every single news organization. Who knew he was secretly why CNN fakes stories and threatens random posters on Twitter? Nah, truth is that journalism has always been biased horseshit, from the very start. It's never been anything but propaganda and lazy, sensationalist drama whoring. Investigative journalists have always been the rarest thing, and even most of them were also pushing propaganda (like the CIA feeding info directly to journalists during Watergate and Vietnam), they just probably didn't realize their sources weren't who they claimed to be.

[@sookendestroy1]

What about tabloid journalism, the land of murdoch