The Failure of The Liberal Media

[@WisecrackEDU]

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[@michaelHassler-dl9ux]

Democracy does not work just read The Machiavellians, defenders of freedom Book by James Burnham

[@michaelHassler-dl9ux]

Democracy does not work The Machiavellians, defenders of freedom Book by James Burnham

[@JCUDOS]

You didn't change your "Dumb" video title... Is clickbait that important to you? Are you that broke? Where are your values?

[@JCUDOS]

I sincerely apologize for the abrasiveness (I ran out of inhibitors... sorry!), but I think you'd make more money with smarter and more respectful / objective video titles. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Not all puns are created equal, they can be good... especially in writing, like for titles. :) Don't worry, I get why you wouldn't want me to join your Patreon haha. But I would be deeply thankful it you did more efforts to avoid promoting "Us vs them" mentalities.

[@MartinMary-c2n]

I subscribe to leftist cooks. It's really good

[@Markadown]

I think we fail in telling people to do the research for themselves because we assume they actually know how to do research. They don't.

[@Izlude84]

Most people do confirmation bias shopping and then call it research.

[@OwlBinary]

This, 100% We can't expect folks to know how to do this after leaving the education system and not using research skills for years. Especially if they don't understand how to recognize confirmation bias.

[@Henningfest]

It can also be a lot to do comprehensive research on the subject of every news story, if one has a full time job and a family(or other obligations). Its a lot to ask the average person to do unpaid research work just to make sense of the world.

[@Gavin_b3ns0n]

The problem is that when you learn how to do your own research you often end up leaning left. Because of this the right wing doesn't want people to be knowledgeable, and calls institutions of education liberal pipelines.

[@You_are_wrong99]

@@Izlude84 problem is search engine, majority of search engine are google or bing under the hood, for example duck duck go is running bing. bias is not a problem and even the people doing science have bias. Problem become when people don't criticize other logic or info.

[@eemoogee160]

The bad faith hyperbole and propaganda of corporate media has contributed to the distrust of media and Trump's rising popularity.

[@sanniepstein4835]

It couldn't possibly be the gross corruption, incompetence, lawfare, and treasonous policies of the Democrats? No, never, unthinkable l'm sure.

[@RN1441]

I was amazed by how many people took 'fact checks' at face value, not even seeming to consider that just because someone calls something a fact check doesn't make it more than an opinion.

[@rwp531]

Preach

[@BobExcalibur]

Who watches the

[@badbabybear1]

Former local news reporter. 10 years of experience at town outlets, been laid off twice in the past year and transitioning to PR (I got to eat). Seen the journalism industry get gutted from lack of revenue. The outlets I worked for were very influenced by advertisers, the whims of local business funding and clickbait online views, and local politicians and officials the editors and publishers were friends with. Social media cut into interest in and funding for the news. People don't care to subscribe because they turn to TikTok, Facebook, and memes for information, sometimes getting misinformed. A lot of local outlet owners either don't know how to take advantage of the digital pivot (because print is effectively dead...not dying, dead) or are just owned by massive private equity companies that lay everyone off and cut costs for shareholders. Part of me is okay watching the usual media outlets die because it is a VERY toxic industry behind the scenes full of backstabbing and lack of empathy for the story subjects, as well as the attempted crushing of a work-life balance, all accelerated by a decaying way of being. However, I of course don’t want to see propaganda spread and support independent news (shoutout to Mother Jones and Democracy Now). I feel KZbin is taking the place of trad media. There's tons of high-quality informative documentaries and video essays about issues past and present with a progressive streak, all for free. Well-done video, as usual.

[@LeonardoSkar]

In Brasil we now have instituto Conhecimento Liberta ( ICL) it Is left publication .

[@MonkeyManRoboDog]

What´s your take on whether the government can play a role in restoring trust in media via regulation / cartel busting ie? And are paid subscription models a way for quality journalism to reclaim the role it had in legacy media? Or is independent journalism dead?

[@badbabybear1]

@ I’ve thought about if public funding from the government could help. In theory that would be great but there’s too much of a risk for that to devolve into govt propaganda. The way to try to prevent this is safeguards mentioned in another comment but I don’t trust American society to enact that. Paid subscription models could also help but you’d need a LOT of readers/viewers to sign up and sadly people are more willing to sign up for an entertainment streaming service than a news outlet. I’ve heard some outlets are having varying small success with registering as nonprofits. Get donations, don’t have to actually make a profit to stay in operations, etc. but obviously that involves a lot of financial begging and closely watching financial numbers, as we see with affiliate npr stations.

[@MonkeyManRoboDog]

@@LeonardoSkar how do they make money?

[@dangerousdays2052]

There is also lots of propaganda on KZbin too tho.

[@Jelly_Skelly]

Anything that involves profit becomes about profit.

[@samithajayasinghe]

Well said 👍

[@cassiusdhami9215]

👏🏾💯🧠🎯👍🏾 Some things are NOT commodities IRL, but everything is a commodity in the imaginary world of Capitalism.

[@Therealdaveez]

bruh your profile pic says you clearly believe otherwise

[@cooper1507]

Ya

[@Shinkajo]

Except the show Profit, where it's about power.

[@schadowizationproductions6205]

I literally can't believe every youtubers favourite thing about ground news is the blindspot feature.

[@DiVaVita]

does seem fairly unlikely, but tbf when my dad told me ab ground news he also highlighted the blindspot feature as his fav & he’s definitely not getting paid by them

[@mystuff9999]

I can’t wait to witness their first scandal. The whole thing does sound to good to be true. Obviously it’s a money printing press once they‘ve reached a minimum subscriber level but I am way too jaded to believe the neutrality angle 😢

[@pennywaldrip3774]

I've seen Ground News segments by so many channels, I can always tell we're getting there.

[@cooper1507]

Idk ground news just seems like a centrist resource

[@MJ-py7dm]

Me too.

[@MJ-py7dm]

@@cooper1507it’s not a newspaper; they only platform news and tell you who talks about what and who doesn’t. It’s pure genius.

[@caiden3396]

It bothered me when people acting like criticism towards "liberal media" or "mainstream media" wasn't valid. Some gave criticism from a place of being incorrectly informed, but they weren't wrong about criticizing it.

[@Radoosh96]

Yea, that is the very first thing somebody who wants to actually inform others has to make clear. Criticism of the media is valid, that doesn't mean their exact criticisms or the other information they regurgitate is also valid.

[@greenftechn]

Blanket criticism is a common habit of conspiracy mongers. For this reason, the general statements about unreliability slide around me unless I know the critiques are more specific as to "how" and "what".

[@Shinkajo]

Too few people criticize their own media. Like I don't really give a shit about right wing media because most of it's garbage and they just pander and I don't waste my time on them. I'm more concerned about my own side. People are so deep into this culture war, owning the other side bs that they fail to gaze within. So most of the criticism one sees is from the right, they have some points along with a lot of diarrhea. But then the left gets defensive and feels like they have to protect their "own" side. And then if you criticize anything, everyone assumes you're on the right and disregards everything you say. It's beyond frustrating.

[@Shinkajo]

Too few people criticize their own media. Like I don't really give a crap(I HATE that I have to use this word, because c-ship here, like that kind of a child is watching this?? This infanilizing here drives me up the wall) about right wing media because most of it's garbage and they just pander and I don't waste my time on them. I'm more concerned about my own side. People are so deep into this culture war, owning the other side bs that they fail to gaze within. So most of the criticism one sees is from the right, they have some points along with a lot of diarrhea. But then the left gets defensive and feels like they have to protect their "own" side. And then if you criticize anything, everyone assumes you're on the right and disregards everything you say. It's beyond frustrating.

[@Shinkajo]

Too few people criticize their own media. Like I don't really give a crap(I _hate_ that I have to use this word, because c-ship here, like that kind of a child is watching this?? This infanilizing here drives me up the wall) about right wing media because most of it's garbage and they just pander and I don't waste my time on them. I'm more concerned about my own side. People are so deep into this culture war, owning the other side bs that they fail to gaze within. So most of the criticism one sees is from the right, they have some points along with a lot of loghorea. But then the left gets defensive and feels like they have to protect their "own" side. And then if you criticize anything, everyone assumes you're on the right and disregards everything you say. It's beyond frustratingly.

[@vaporeonice3146]

“I’m sure you believe everything you’re saying. But what I’m saying is, if you believed something different, you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting.”That Chomsky clip goes SO HARD. I think people really need to reflect on this a lot more. Whenever you find yourself thinking, “how could this president/other politician/whatever think this awful thing?,” consider that maybe they wouldn’t be in the role they’re in if they DIDN’T think that.

[@Uruz2012]

That's called a tautology. It applies equally well to Chomsky or anyone else. "If things were different then they'd not be the same."

[@gabberwhacky]

​@@Uruz2012if you rip that quote out of context, i guess you can call it a tautology. But in context, that's obviously not what he meant. It's a statement about social forces and constraints. I let you reflect on that for a while.

[@declanbennett1085]

@@gabberwhacky Exactly. The whole point of that quote, both in that interview and in chomskys work broadly is if they didn't believe (or at least convincingly appear), the people that pay their salary, control the camera, the broadcasting apprataus, the general platform, would never platform them in the first place. Instead there would be someone that did conform to what they needed instead. And frankly the only way someone wouldnt understand that even vaguely is either by deliberatly misinterpreting it, or not even watching the video they're commenting on

[@Seagaltalk]

If only Chomsky had reflected on himself and his bad ideas more.

[@DioBrando-qr6ye]

​@@declanbennett1085 To be fair, this video doesn't do a good job of explaining the situation.

[@Ford_prefect_42]

When telling the truth or using data and facts are political, we're doomed

[@BobExcalibur]

It's as old as Thucydides, thus as old as Journalism itself.

[@emilomatosis]

Loved knowing you collaborated with Neil here!!! and seeing you mention the Leftist Cooks, they both do awesome work, please keep working with them 💜

[@awesomelycurious2740]

Hi Wisecrack! Behind the Bastards has a few related episodes: How the Non-Nazi Bastards Helped Hitler Rise to Power, How Hollywood Helped the Nazis, and How the Liberal Media Helped Fascism Win. I think you might like it, or at least, find it interesting.

[@chazcmeekins83]

That episode along with the episodes about German and America media coverage & ownership during the Rise of the Hitler party in the 1930s and the Holocaust.

[@awesomelycurious2740]

@chazcmeekins83 True. I didn't want my comment to go on and on. 😅

[@auto117666]

My favorite was the BtB episode chronicling Hitler’s favorite author and how he tried to push his generals to adopt the same strategies as good old Shatterhand.

[@chazcmeekins83]

@auto117666 obviously I have a political bias to listening to these podcasts but they are soo much more informative then my general Ed textbooks from my freshman year in College in NYC. That American history textbook feels like I'm high school all over again compared to what I learn from podcasts like Behind the bastards or Revolutions by Mike Duncan.

[@TristanBanks]

In 70 years we will be learning how liberal media helped zionism.

[@joshuastencel28]

You had me at "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

[@SageWon-1aussie]

Inconceivable!

[@Piperisyourho]

I get existential dread every time I see a wisecrack video on my feed

[@mittenil2972]

Same

[@pdcdesign9632]

That's cute.

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

Good, it means that you are paying attention

[@邓梓薇]

It’s always failure when are we gonna win😅

[@CountCocofang]

Just unsub. And then tell YT to not recommend the channel anymore. There, your life is objectively improved.

[@EuphoricTincture]

"A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this away and a democracy dies. The fusion of news and entertainment, the rise of a class of celebrity journalists on television who define reporting by their access to the famous and the powerful, the retreat by many readers into the ideological ghettos of the Internet and the ruthless drive by corporations to destroy the traditional news business are leaving us deaf, dumb and blind." -Chris Hedges

[@Blossom23-vn2im]

It’s so sad that local news outlets are struggling. I’ve found the most unbiased and fair news sources were my local paper and tv station.

[@michaeladkins6]

Lucky you.

[@GR-bn3xj]

Mine do what their corporate bosses tell them to do. Did you ever see that clip, that has all the local newscasters all saying the exact same thing? They all read the same exact statement

[@modatamoproblems1288]

That Noam Chomsky clip is FIRE!

[@lexthanexpected]

"he who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth." -Goethe

[@PaxilRose]

As someone who is called a "right wing extremist" by liberals and called a"radical left socialist" by conservatives, this channel feels very welcoming to the politicly homeless in America.

[@thedudewhoeatspianos]

Acting like you can get away with being a dad and NOT embracing a lifetime of puns is lying to yourself.

[@ryle4h]

This video was preceded by a political ad for the Kamala Harris Fortnite level. I nearly cringed out of my g*ddamn skin.

[@bigginsg8711]

It always makes me chuckle when leftists talk about threats to free press when they censored the Hunter Biden laptop story with the help of the government.

[@luisalejandro2335]

Notice nobody wishes to oppose you or you’re being shadow banned. Or they say Trump is a threat to the free press even though they never experienced more access to the WH or to the President than when he was in office.

[@withjoe1880]

Just because the other side is doing it doesn't make it correct. It also doesn't mean the concerns aren't valid. In fact it makes the point even more doesn't it? Free press is an issue on all sides since now more than ever news is being controlled by the whims of advertisers and eccentric billionaires who can decide whether or not a story should be run or not in order to make a profit or to avoid alienating readers/viewers. The example you gave is just further proof of the issues facing free press. It's scary that you can see the issue on one side but not the other when the issue is actually independent of political ideology. As an independent I see hypocrisy, lies, and corruption on both sides of the aisle.

[@bigginsg8711]

@@withjoe1880 Nice strawman.

[@Pårchmēntôs]

@@bigginsg8711 your comment was the perfect straw man.

[@bigginsg8711]

@@Pårchmēntôs You dont know what strawman means do you?

[@InventiveHarvest]

By the classic definition of liberal, Elon is liberal and Wisecrack is not.

[@deadhead4077]

So glad ya snuck in the star wars clip "this is where liberty dies"

[@leighfoulkes7297]

But wasn't she a queen or princess or something? What would she want with Liberty, lol?

[@adamazzalino5247]

@@leighfoulkes7297 To quote Felix from Chapo Traphouse, "A slave who is a child built his own robot. I'm going to lose my mind figuring out the political economy of Star Wars."

[@lexthanexpected]

And then the Muppets Christmas Carol [chef kiss]

[@bkbland1626]

​@@adamazzalino5247doesn't matter because it's a FANTASY story. Do what ever.

[@tyrreloneal5178]

​@leighfoulkes7297 she was a Senator when she said that

[@LonkinPork]

a newspaper consisting of just two pages sounds kinda nice, if it's put together with intention. a quick little pamphlet catching you up on the day's events. it (ideally) would disincentivize sensationalism and verbose prattle.

[@AbsurdlyGeeky]

It would probably be three human-interest pieces, the weather, and a full page of ads.

[@LonkinPork]

let a man dream

[@Maya-sd4jl]

Idk. I feel like you could argue that it'd be more sensational because they have less room to "pack a punch." The same way headlines typically have more sensation phrasing than subheadings or the article itself.

[@Cobra_Kie]

Anyone who doesn’t tow the “liberal” line being called or referred to as a ww2 German doesn’t help either…

[@paulthomas963]

People need to stop comparing everything to pre-WW2 Germany. Shut the fuck up Germans and fix your own broken country.

[@CityGamer1337]

Literally the reason I voted for Trump. They’ve lost the plot

[@Aless6996]

@@CityGamer1337 if your main reason for voting for Trump is "uh oh my feefees are hurt" you are a child, quite literally.

[@Aless6996]

The liberal line being...? Not saying that immigrants are poisoning the blood of the nation? Not blaming queer people for non-existing dramas? Not being a piece of shit to your neighbor?

[@TK421ps]

The liberal line being… men in girls sports, abortion uber alles, lying about Biden’s dementia, COVID didn’t come from a lab, Hunter’s laptop is Russian propaganda, Israel is committing genocide, memory hole multiple leftist attempts on Trump’s life, it’s normal to use the DOJ as a political weapon, the Afghanistan pullout was amazing, and the only reason to not vote for Kamala Harris is because you’re a racist sexist. He’s referring to that liberal line.

[@lyman9365]

Love the closing message about doing your own research. Sadly it feels like a privilege to have the time to do fact checking after hearing an alarming claim rather than just parroting it immediately.

[@Batemann1980]

Liberal - thinks capitalism is great Left wing - thinks capitalism is the problem

[@BobExcalibur]

Left wing - Think they're undermining Capitalism through Ideological infiltration. Capitalists - Use the Ideological infiltration to kill smaller businesses and fill the market with infinite low skill slave labour.

[@KittySnicker]

As a Jewish viewer, I appreciate you guys for not affiliating yourselves with Nazi vitamins

[@red_roy]

wdym affiliating with nazi victims?

[@agarrandoviaje5425]

Kamala harris supports genocide

[@somone755]

The grind tells me to grind. Not to stop and think. You are my chosen representative of truth to increase my efficiency and output.

[@StrayVagabond]

@25:15 the problem is not everyone has the time or energy to fully research everything they see. this is why news has to be trustworthy

[@punksk8a29]

Getting some great guest writers recently, John the Duncan and now Neil of leftist cooks. Loving it!

[@Sol-0T-hn5ro]

I love how right wing media call other right wing media...extreme left wing, fascist, elite, communist and also liberal, but also right wing, depending on which right wing platform. Things get weird fast in a space where all greater media is bought and paid for. Thanks for another great video brother:)

[@colonelweird]

So i was thinking, damn, this video is even better than Wisecrack's usual high standard - and then you revealed it was written by Neil, and everything fell into place. The Leftist Cooks has become the best of the best on youtube. I don't know of another channel that can make me think harder than I've ever thought before while laughing my ass off, then 15 minutes later leave me bawling my eyes out.

[@WisecrackEDU]

they are so so so good. honored to have some of that magic on our channel.

[@alphajackal6648]

@@WisecrackEDU Their presence on the writing team is a reassurance to me - I've been disappointed by Marxist channels before...cough cough Second Thought. Neil being on the team kinda helps assure me I won't ever be recommended On Authority yet again.

[@catowarmeowson9964]

Me: "wise crack is going to point out the problems in lefty media?? No way!" Them: "trump is a nazi" Ah. Nevermind

[@IndustriousVermin]

They haven't achieved true escape velocity yet. Thanks for the heads up

[@GusJKlaus]

When their video showed up in my timeline i was like "should i give them another chance?" Turns out I shouldn't 😂😂😂 Here in brazil, the left calls everyone nazi and fascist, when they are 90% aligned with their ideologies like anti-semitism and centrilized economics, guess the left is the same in the whole world

[@paulthomas963]

Yup. Can't help themselves lol.

[@christoffer886]

Any market driven media will be biased to the market rather than truth. It's interesting that the most free and neutral media is found in nations that have very low corruption and state funded media as a primary outlet. If the flow of funding isn't from commercials and subscription, but rather state funded, but dislocated by law to be influenced by politicians themselves, it is run as a third pillar of society, externally reviewing politicians. In nations like Sweden, the Swedish Television takes great care in trying to be neutral. They aren't driven by either the market or the online attention market. They aren't driven by making catchy headlines or flashy news, but instead focus on informative news inclusive of all groups in society and constantly being reviewed to stay on that neutral path. People jump to conclusions about this and try to frame Swedish Television as being "state owned propaganda", but there's no propaganda, it's cut off from influence. It's written into law that the only thing that flows between the state and this media outlet is tax funding. And with this low corruption it actually works at being neutral and trustworthy. The only ones saying otherwise are usually the extremists, primarily the populist right, but they're mostly just interested in fascist control over society anyway so there's no surprise they attack them. Seeing this news outlet actually functioning properly, then comparing it to the rest of the world, it's remarkable how much actual propaganda people accept in other nations. The US is remarkably lacking of actual neutral news. Almost everything is framed in this skewed perspective, regardless of outlet, while influencers online skew things even more as they often lack the rigor of journalistic ethics. There's no wonder US citizens are so badly informed or have such extremely biased opinions. There's not really a single outlet that's dedicated to true neutral journalism. There are only bright spots of great journalists who cut through the noise, but no consistently trustworthy outlet. If so, they are very invisible or maybe even suppressed by the larger outlets. Sure, the reason why Swedish Television works is because the nation overall is very low in corruption and the system is formed so that it's hard to control anything from behind a veil. But if the nation is fundamentally stable in this way, such news outlets actually works. In general.... get the market away from news and get state people away from deciding what the media should do. Keep media detached from that, and exist as its own entity, aimed to review society but at the same time funded by society. No one should control or own it and every news should have citations and good side material that complement how the news articles are composed. Main media should be its own societal entity that is promoted as the neutral main source of information by the standards of what journalism is fundamentally about. In a functioning democracy, this entity is a must, or else erode public knowledge into the hands of the rich and powerful. But in essence for the practice of the outlets themselves, at least focus less on opinions and more on factual research. In the US, there's too much opinions, emotionally driven stories and spectacle rather than intelligent dissection of society. And independent media... the equation is simple; when the nation is fascist, independent media is the truth. When the nation is free, the independent media is usually the opposite. But I wish there was a place that gathered and reviewed smaller independent voices in the same way as larger outlets. It's a mine field to try and find trustworthy independent news outlets online. Most are even more biased and populist than the major ones.

[@MonkeyManRoboDog]

Are you content with how Swedish public media reports let´s say on the topic of migrants? I mean: are there topics which, if you ask a guy on the street, are toned down or not talked about? or you feel it´s fair and free reporting on each and every topic? In Germany there is a growing feeling that state funded media do exert restrictions on what is sayable or how to talk about distinct topics (Palestine ie). Those "restrictions" are of course not "handed down" to journalists by the government. It´s rather felt as (maybe) alienation of liberal elites from low income citizens. Who do not feel represented in how the news portrait politics. So I guess it´s rather felt, or projected onto state media as part of this elite. Like an expression of the growing gap between rich and poor. Any comparable phenomenon in Sweden?

[@christoffer886]

@@MonkeyManRoboDog I would say that our public service media is generally pretty balanced. Actually, even the paid newspapers that rely on subscription and ads are generally neutral except for specific pages dedicated to their political leaning. I think generally if a nation is low in corruption it sort of influences the virtues in society as well. But to answer the question, our media, especially public service reports neutrally on something like the conflict in the middle east. Which means it doesn't shy away from what Israel is doing to Palestinians, but also don't ignore the Israelian hostages of Hamas. And while reporting they're also keen on doing open analysis of disinformation and misinformation, pointing to manipulation of information when spotting it. While there's a risk in neutral reporting ending up in moral complexities, I think that the important thing for journalists is to report both sides of something, but follow up with an analysis of the reasons why something happened. This way the population both get information and expertise in order to form an informed opinion about the things going on in the world. While I do think that journalism overall lacks in complex analysis, I cannot deny that I think our public service media in the north is pretty good at their job. We also have investigative journalists who collaborate with other public service media around the Nordic countries and they are doing a fantastic job at what I think is the most important job for journalists; to expose hidden and complex problems in society. While populists spread bs about media not caring for their side of things, like in many nations, people on the country side feel left out of the discussion, I don't really see that actually happen in public service media. News from around the nation and locally are being put forward in national reporting so everyone is proportionally heard, from all classes in society. Most criticism comes from people who maybe don't understand why their town of 1000 inhabitants aren't covered as much as the main capitol, but I mean, that's statistically logical. Taking the entirety of public service, meaning both the news and the documentaries it produces; it forms a pretty good overview of Swedish society in which most people are heard. At least in comparison to many other nations. What people talk about on the street seems to generally come from inflated concepts found online, mostly in echo chambers that skew a topic to the extreme since there's no journalistic integrity guiding the ethics of it. So if there's any difference between what the media reports on and what the word on the street is, it's never media "covering something up" or "toning something down", it's rather the people who gets riled up by populistic attention seekers online, forming an opinion that is skewed towards conflict rather than representative of reality. So far, public service news do a good job at not falling into that polarisation behavior.

[@julianbecker4351]

​@@MonkeyManRoboDog one of the big reason that the corprate news pushes topics that are just not realy relevant. As an example Migration is pushed to be a big debate topic while in reality there isn't much to report on. And this then leads to people thinking that statenews is underreporting on these topics while the reality is that other news like "Die Bildzeitung" are over reporting on these topics.

[@Seagaltalk]

How can the media be biased towards the truth? when their is no ultimate arbiter of the truth. The problem with the current news media is that they think they are the infalible arbiters of truth. They of course being fallible humans and not deities are as fallible as the rest of us. But of course the rest of us before streaming didn't have platforms to oppose them.

[@sanniepstein4835]

Your faith in the state is naive.

[@david_does_philosophy]

that zoom in of absolutely no thoughts in Musk's head

[@johnstanczyk4030]

I do not want to be Mr. Um-Actually so I will simply recommend Indy Neidell's Rise of , month by month as told by the newspapers across the poltical spectrum, on his WW2 channel.

[@themac092]

Could you give a link to the specific video you mean? They have a lot and I couldn't find the one you meant

[@johnstanczyk4030]

@themac092 KZbin does not really like putting links in comments but it is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZWsnHead7aGkNUfeature=shared

[@LonkinPork]

15:35 "If you ain't first, you're [a liberal]." - Ricky Bobby

[@BHHartman]

Can confirm, that’s what Ricky Bobby actually said

[@NagasakiBladers]

UK guy here, your smooth-talking ways have persuaded me to take out a year's subscription to Ground, hadn't even heard of it before but looks perfect, thanks!

[@satyasyasatyasya5746]

be aware that ground news is a reflection of the US overton window. what it considers for example "left" news is laughably rightwing anywhere else in the world.

[@MmKayUltra1]

Oh no after you mentioned leftist cooks I am hearing the rest of this in an Irish accent

[@StickyMcBudNugget]

I like how a philosophy channel has really embraced it's role as propaganda

[@beethovenjunkie]

loved the writing in this

[@tim290280]

That Chomsky interview burn should be shown to journalists as their computer login screen. It's a point they still don't seem to get.

[@nickcarter4006]

It's all 6 years of media theory studies I did in college correlated to current events and condensed into a 30 minute video. Neat!

[@tardifan]

I hate that so many people think liberal = left wing. Me and other lefties I know hate neo-liberals almost as much as we hate fascists. Also was not prepared for sudden Hbomb! You guys should do a collab! You're practically breadtube already anyway. 😂

[@AJX-2]

In America, liberal has a very simple meaning. Do you believe that trans people exist? If yes, you are a liberal. That's it. That's the only criterion.

[@sanniepstein4835]

Why would you hate fascists? They were socialists too.

[@sunnymon1436]

Peter Thiel has been responsible for most of JD Vance's career - he funded his to become a senator (picked from Thiel's Venture Capitalism firm, Narya) - then presented him to Donald Trump as a VP candidate (Rupert Murdoch presented Doug Burgum). Trump chose Vance.... ....Peter Thiel was behind the Cambridge Analytica scandal about manipulating people's emotions via facebook feeds. That was done via staffers at Thiel's company Palantir. Palantir went on to create analytics programs for the CIA and FBI. Peter Thiel went on to replace Jeffery Epstien at Carbyne, the R&D company for MOSSAD (Israel's spy agency). So that's whose behind Vance. If Trump gets in, Vance will be in charge, and he owes Thiel for almost everything he has.

[@brandoboe]

To help you with your pronunciation @wisecrack, there are no silent “e”s in German! Die Rote Fahne = dee roh-tuh fah-nuh

[@lllULTIMATEMASTERlll]

When I was growing up, liberal meant left-leaning, now it means centrist.

[@paarsecart]

fantastic video, you got a new sub!

[@grief_hammer]

Though it may seem humble from the typical door shot we see in media, 10 Downing street is in fact a large mansion with 100ish rooms, designed by Sir Christopher Wren (of St Paul's Cathedral fame), and appointed to a very high standard. It's more or less a palace, built next door to the historic Palace of Whitehall. The PM living there is still a big, showy flex.

[@BobExcalibur]

It's outward appearance is intended to resemble a typical small home in an English city, affirming the pretenses that the Prime Minister represents The Commons as opposed to the nobility. Though at the rate we're going that'll mean they'll demolish it and replace it with a nightmarish Kruschevite apartment block.

[@grief_hammer]

@@BobExcalibur By " nightmarish Kruschevite apartment block" I assume you mean a style of council housing block that hasn't been built since the 60s? Or do you mean a modern 5-over-1 block, which is stylistically American and thus about as far from Soviet Russia as it's possible to be? Whatever you mean, the "way we are going" is the exact opposite of building anything- peak house building here was in the 1920s or 1960s (sources disagree) with decline ever since. So no, we aren't about to knock down the PM's palace.

[@BobExcalibur]

@@grief_hammer *laughs in Grenfell

[@grief_hammer]

@@BobExcalibur You mean the tower block designed in the... 1960s? Such a stupid point. You could have said something relevant like "the rate we are going they will knock it down to build a craft beer brewery/vape shop/amazon distribution centre" but that would entail a criticism not aimed at nebulous culture war bugbears.

[@BobExcalibur]

@@grief_hammer You can't house the annual imported population the size of Greater Manchester inside a Craft Brewery you silly billy. You either make more Kruschevite blocks or you pave over farms. It's just material reality.

[@paniclogic5109]

You guys are great! Love your work

[@transagenda]

Flexing your awesome muscles bringing in either of the amazing folks from Leftist Cooks!!

[@markfiore9783]

Yellow Journalism in the late 1800s between Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst was all about sensationalism, exaggeration, and eye-catching headlines.

[@shockcat5988]

It’s not technically classical liberalism. It’s progressive liberalism with authoritarian traits.

[@danielbazzy]

Mainstream US media is so conservative. It is insane to me that there’s a huge segment of our population that thinks it’s too leftist and honestly that’s a testament to just how narrow the political consciousness and perspectives of the United States citizenry is.

[@abeidiot]

i am from outside that country. their media has a very obvious left bias but not liberal bias

[@trey1531]

No. Why is every news headline about Trump negatively slanted while headlines for Biden or Harris positive?

[@AR-ym4zh]

​​@@trey1531Because Trump is a reactionary, not just a normal neo-liberal. Don't worry, if Trump wins this election, you won't have to worry about that overly critical "free press" anymore. I'm voting Kamala, cause, call me old fashioned, I don't really want that outcome. Free press is rather important, even when not perfect.

[@AR-ym4zh]

​@@trey1531The media is still not fully reactionary. You're being ridiculous if you don't believe the media would become a fascist media under a fascist state, including CNN. That is how these things work.

[@sophiepooks2174]

@@trey1531 Not in Australia the behavior of Trump and his minions is always sane washed by them, while the other side rarely gets a 5 second sound-byte to explain their side.

[@chrisrod23]

"guys, guys, we don't benefit from capitalism, because we don't advertise for chase" 🙄

[@WisecrackEDU]

can you be anti-capitalist and also benefit from capitalism?

[@chrisrod23]

@WisecrackEDU you can be critical of capitalism while benefiting it, but I wouldn't call you an anti-capitalist. It just comes off as "capitalism is bad, except for when we do it"

[@WisecrackEDU]

@@chrisrod23 I guess that's a moral question though - I think people participating in capitalism doesn't mean that they are inscribing morality to capitalism. we need to have sponsors to make videos but that doesn't mean that we're saying that the digital media economy is inherently moral in any way.

[@martinwalsh4797]

It all started to go wrong when Reagan ended the Fairness Doctrine.

[@adammalay3842]

And the telecommunications act of 1996

[@leftielori1312]

Yay! Great job Neal!

[@chrisdunker54]

The sad, disgusting truth is, you can't plant an idea in someone's mind without their being fertile ground for it to grow. In other words they must have already thought it for it to take root.

[@chrisdunker54]

@morezombies9685 it's both. You have to already agree with an idea in order for it to grow.

[@gulaschnikov5335]

@@chrisdunker54 sounds absurd.

[@chrisdunker54]

@@gulaschnikov5335 does this mean you believe an alien idea to the mind can be planted?

[@gulaschnikov5335]

@@chrisdunker54 By your logic, that's exactly what you! believe lol. Because you believe that someone accepts ideas from others only when it already has the idea. Where from? From aliens?

[@chrisdunker54]

@@gulaschnikov5335 there has been a miscommunication. When I say alien I mean completely foreign to the mind. That is correct.

[@fwmlp]

I just want to say that I found Ground News years ago (I believe through this channel) and that it's amazing how different the news can be from one source to the other. I just wish they had more presence around the world.

[@NankitaBR]

22:10 OMG, Neil is writing for Wisecrack? I LOVE his channel, have been watching The Leftist Cooks for years!

[@joyfultrails]

The newspaper industry is in trouble. In related news, the horse and buggy industry is in trouble.

[@MontegomeryLoL]

Everyone is not going to just learn to be media literate. Even if everyone did, media literacy only helps detect biases, misinformation, etc., it doesn't magically produce context, what isn't being reported, or what has been buried. You need journalists for that, and you need knowledge of and access to their work, which not everyone has or has the tools to find.

[@Amateurgeek]

I agree. Every time I research something it becomes a quest of epistemology. Even the “way” you research will usually bring you about the wrong roads if you are not careful.

[@lydiaohlydia6635]

Democracy Now! has been a news source I’ve used intermittently for years. Noam Chomsky is a regular guest there and it often reports on stories missed by other outlets.

[@paulthomas963]

They lie just as much as MSNBC since CIA cut-out companies bought them out. Amy could not be stumping any harder for Ukraine and it's disgusting.

[@DJ_Dermo07]

Here to support The Leftist Cook and watch the video obviously. WE LOVE THE DITCH!!

[@underclvss]

This channel just keeps going in. Respect

[@sairadha674]

Instead of trying to define the word liberal we can just say news outlets that support democratic party. It will leave out few like Fox that are republican supporting and some truly independent ones.

[@jacobhgoldman]

In school, we are all taught that first person sources are the best source such that we should consume those and then draw our own conclusions, and social seems to be first person sources, but they are extremely susceptible to reporting imaginary happenings.

[@ElBobDestroyer]

24:36 Friendly Jordies keeps me more informed with things happening on the other side of the world than I am with my own neighborhood.

[@00SmileTime00]

Always glad to hear my hometown hero getting love from the rest of the world 👍

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

If only he had some sway in the labour party and instead goes after the greens allowing the liberal lite to continue to destroy both the lower and middle class

[@seamustoomey4548]

So cool to see the ditch mentioned

[@jerrylepoppin]

Imagine... having a national broadcaster... with regional hubs for local news.... entirely funded by the government and intended to be independent... Ad free ... And despite it's attempts to be politically centrist it still gets called left because everything else is so far right.

[@jerrylepoppin]

It's also funny that here, Liberal means right-wing, because it means economically liberal (the free market, removing regulation, capitalism, etc) rather than socially liberal (which is what I think the USA thinks of)

[@SageWon-1aussie]

We have the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

[@sanniepstein4835]

State propaganda funded by force

[@BobExcalibur]

You can't watch the BBC without recognizing it's content is extremely lefty by English standards. From the slants in News 24 to the comedians on panel shows to who gets picked to stand in Question Time. If you're a Marxist it's obviously not Left enough, because to you the Khmer Rouge wasn't.

[@noahrenken3773]

Ground news is a perfect sponsor for you guys!

[@MemTMCR]

As a non-uk european, I've usually understood your politics shortened to liberal vs conservative (Change vs Conservation)

[@Sam-lr9oi]

I'd say, as an American, that at least for a while it's largely been conservation of the status quo vs explicit reaction/regressivism.

[@ThalesWell]

@@Sam-lr9oiYes. Democrats are the conservative party, Republicans are the “actively increase cruelty and oppression” party.

[@red_roy]

​@@Sam-lr9oi yea regressivism is so strong nowadays progressives cant affort to let them win and are forced to ally with the status quo because the status quo is better than regression. fptp needs to go

[@entertainproxi9140]

Western politics is simple : corporations fund the "centrists" and the right wing, the left wing is portrayed as terrorists/criminals/lazy/depraved/weak because they are anti-capitalists, while liberals and conservatives both cozy up to corporations, the only difference between the two is small social issues, both will agree if those social issues don't create any new markets (for example they are both trying to ignore the current g*nocide because weapon manufacturers are making money off of it).

[@Seagaltalk]

Your wrong that is amazingly simplistic. Also conservatives generally want change as much as liberals. Both just want their version of "change". I just with both would be more commited to changing the entrenched bureaucracies that are the real enimies of the poeple and change.

[@ryancier]

Ink is also getting more expensive and locked up at places like CVS.

[@indianguy2276]

Shoutout Neil, that leftist definitely cooks

[@roguedogx]

25:22 the problem with that outcome is the circular logic of "doing your own research" but research requires research materials which the person saying "do your own research" is often supposed to be the source of. Real world example. I followed a creator on KZbin called Mirai Club because I wanted to know more about FCEVs and the amount of times they said "do your own research" while standing in front of the thing that could have provided the answer they were telling me to go find got maddening.

[@BloodinMaster]

It is absolutely amazing to me, how half of the video titled "The Failure of The Liberal Media" is about criticism and jabs at the right-wingers. There isn't any mention of censorship and lies by the so called "Liberal" and "Unbiased" media. It is truly sad to me, as a fan, to see what this channel turned into after Jared left. So many political content and so one-sided it has become. Where's the criticism of Democratic party and It's failings? Oh yeah, let's make fun of Trump, Musk and Peterson all the time and not once point out the hypocrisy and dangers of leftist movements. How about discussing censorship of Twitter and Facebook cases? The ones Democratic administration pushed - where every mention of Trump went with "Fake News" plaque, decreasing search results on Hunter Biden's scandal, etc. And no, I'm not a consipracy theorist or a Flat-earther or a Trump supporter. I live in another country and was a fan of this channel for a long time, but the content it makes as of late has been...to say the least, questionable. The ideals of philosphy seems to be betrayed when you take a strong standing on ideological agenda.

[@thebigdawgj]

I wonder what happened to Jared.

[@BloodinMaster]

@@thebigdawgj He actually has his own small channel : www.youtube.com/@JaredBauer, with content more in line with the good old Wisecrack.

[@jyotiprakashpanda4717]

@@BloodinMaster Thanks

[@paulthomas963]

They're brainwashed, they can't help it. Realizing the media is fake is the first step to un-brainwashing. Maybe there's some hope.

[@kirinthewanderer5896]

given the mentions of independent news outlets, I feel the need to shout out the man, the myth, the legend, michael west of michael west media here in australia. He does incredible work, mostly talking about multinational corporate tax dodging, among other things.

[@istrumguitars]

There is no liberal media. There is only corporate media who are interested in maximizing profits, an inherently right-wing concept. And there’s KZbinrs. But I don’t see them picking up the slack and doing the heavy lifting work that real reporters and journalists do anytime soon.

[@Mortablunt]

The Marxist perspective is both western conservatism and western liberalism are both ideologies that are fundamentally capitalist. Neither and wants to really change capitalism or transition out of capitalism. The difference is that the conservatives are open about the continuation and worsening of exploitation and the liberals make a big talk about creating a more humane lesson expectative system, but never actually desire or advocate, anti-capitalist policies, which would change the fundamental issue of the system. To draw up a metaphor, the conservative and liberal positions in capital society I’d like a pair of muggers the conservative is holding the gun, and the liberal is holding the bag which one is mugging you more which one is mugging US dancers. They’re both bugging you just because one is directly threatening you while one is presenting you with a seemingly less cruel alternative. They’re both still mugging you.

[@sanniepstein4835]

Hugo Chavez left his daughter $4 billion. The right isn't uniquely greedy; they just believe in voluntary exchange as opposed to state extortion.

[@paulthomas963]

This is total nonsense. They work for the democratic party explicitly and admittedly. Now if you want to argue the current Dems are neocons with Marxist facepaint and the Trump party is the old Democrats, I would agree.

[@_xeere]

I would say liberalism is a belief that the government exists to enforce a set of concrete rights rather than to abstractly create value for its population. It's a kind of soft-libertarianism where you think that value is created by individuals through markets, but the government should exist to regulate those markets and prevent them from doing harm.

[@paul_hankin]

I like the TLDR News channels here on KZbin

[@AJX-2]

If I was the liberal media I would simply not be

[@deadhead4077]

Yassssssss muppet Christmas carol is the superior Christmas carol version

[@xenophon1999]

Love your channel guys but just a couple of things, which others have probably already stated. 1. Telling people to do their own research is not helpful without helping people to understand what research means. Most people think research is just looking at a bunch of opinions on something and deciding on what seems like the right answer, but without the ability to dig into and analyze bias you'll most likely just harden your original assumption. 2. I appreciate you acknowledge your US bias, but maybe you should have talked about how one of the meanings of Liberal is almost exclusively used in the US, while the rest of the world uses the classical understanding of the word it's only really the US that uses it as a synonym for the left. Although to be fair, because of the cultural domination of the US the liberal/left synonym is leaching into other cultures.

[@Trekyhunter]

If you told the average healthy American that they actually have amazing Healthcare they would probably believe you.

[@paulthomas963]

They do have amazing health care compared to what Canada and the UK have to offer. Having lived in all these places.

[@Trekyhunter]

@paulthomas963 just 6k for an ambulance, and hundreds to thousands if it's not anything basic under a plan if you're working. And God speed if you're not working.

[@cubbian]

​@@paulthomas963stop lying, you've never left your trailer park😂😂😂

[@hallofmirrorsnetwork]

LOVE that you are naming the problem - the big C - Capitalism. 🔻

[@Leopoldshark]

13:32 Chief Mouser Larry hard at work

[@Quader417]

The subtle Tim Poll roast is peak comedy lol

[@laurengin4581]

I like Breakthrough News, the Grayzone, Electronic Intifada and the Katie Halper show. Not only as solid leftwing anti-imperialist media, the Grayzone (and EI) are doing some of the best investigative journalism going.

[@paulthomas963]

Agree about the Grayzone!

[@toadofsteel]

When i first started watching this, i was like "this would be a great video for a ground news plug". Then it happened

[@eliasneri225]

What happened to you Wisecrack, you used to give fun thinking points about movies, games, tv shoes, etc. Now this? You'll criticize the other side but shirt around issues on this side. Democrats are silencing voices. And many of your points are stretches to make.

[@TheThagenesis]

a word of context on the press under Hitler. he did something he called "Gleichgeschaltet" after he rose to power which roughly translates to equalized and means that the press had the write exactly what the regime dictated. all "other" media(even film and radio), that wasn't in line was forbidden

[@BobExcalibur]

FBI surpressing the Hunter Biden Laptop story as "Russian Propaganda", for example.

[@hWat-Ever]

Anyone else get a Harris ad that looks like an ad for a generic animated super hero movie?

[@rogerreger9631]

I got one that was fortnight gameplay with an A.I monotone voice talking about voting.

[@hWat-Ever]

@rogerreger9631 mine was so fast I barely caught what it was about

[@mybrainidont]

One more wisecrack video and then i think i am ready for blissful relief offered by gravity and my rocketing body hitting the pavement

[@ANON-KM]

The electronic intifada

[@skyman6936]

7:18. Had the opportunity to fight fascism directly and didn't take it. 😡

[@magnus_cockstrong]

In 2016 so much of trumps campaign momentum came from him correctly pointing out the failures of corporately owned media.

[@Ahzpayne]

To the people and party responsible for it. Without Conservatism there is no profit motive in our newsrooms. You don't get credit for noticing the house is covered in muddy footprints when you're the one wearing their boots inside.

[@MaxwellWorkEmery]

It's fascinating to me how many people love the (incredible) film AMERICAN HISTORY X for all the wrong reasons.

[@BobExcalibur]

Developing a prejudice because someone killed your firefighter dad but society insisted you can't talk about it is very understandable. The film is lopsided, because it has to resort to caricature to demonise behaviour that would be treated with pity and understanding if the character exhibiting it wasn't white. That's why the denouement rings hollow for many viewers, and they take the first half of the film to heart more than the latter.

[@RevanImmortal]

Irish = Based

[@WisecrackEDU]

True