Working on a documentary about religion just got back from Tel Aviv. The number of rightwing religious ZEALOTS that are there calling for - literally - “wiping out ALL Palestinians including Children” is TERRYFYING. Netanyahu has members in his OWN cabinet that are calling for “nuking” Gaza, AND Netanyahu himself talked of the importance of making a new “Nakba” (terror campaign) against the people in Gaza to force them to leave. SOME of us are *consistent with criticizing religion, including Islam, Judaism, and Christianity… Don’t be me started the Christian version of Sharia Law. It is ABSOLUTELY embarrassing that Bill Maher - of ALL people - chooses to let his brain stop working with regards to criticizing Netanyahu’s regime in Israel! Not counting the terrifying interviews you will get to see in our documentary. there are COUNTLESS videos you can find online RIGHT NOW, of Israel’s rightwing religious NUTS calling for the death of ALL Palestinians, and the fact that Bill Maher REFUSES to mention, much less criticize them is an absolute embarrassment. After all these years of defending him against religious apologists, millions of us now realize, he really IS a biased bigot. And when I look at all the DEAD and starving kids suffering in Gaza, what Maher really is, is a villain.
When I saw that, I thought, "Ugh - I hate headline writers." Then the clip made it clear why. At least here it's comedy being labeled that way, but, then again, that's where this trend started and look how far it's gone.
Years ago I watched 2 hours of news everyday and I realized how angry I was becoming. I had two little kids and I remember saying to myself - Is this how I want them to remember me? I stopped watching the propaganda news and felt a lot better. It's like a drug.
I don't even turn on broadcast television anymore and I'm always shocked at how stupid it is when I go to someone's house where it just runs in the background all day long.
What news do you read/watch? People say this about MSM all of the time but never say where they get their news from. I really want to know. NOT being a jerk.
My parents had the news on. In the car it was AM radio At home channel flipping 4p, 5p, 6p, 7p, took a break for prime time hours 8p to 11p then back to the news till bed time and started again at 6a until they got work. Holidays was a political argument I hated it and hung out in my room or friends. As young adult I only watch the weather part. I lived a very clueless rosey trustful non stressful life. For the past 10 years, my socialization is the news and social media and it is stressful to see and be aware of all the BS. I miss the clueless lifestyle Even disconnecting doesn't erase the BS roaming the streets.
I'm a retired reporter and noticed when reporters and editors quit reporting and editing and became 'journalists' the 'news' suddenly became theater for clicks.
American Media USED to be the 4th WALL. Now it has gone to shit, because of bribes, payouts and political/alphabet soup agendas. NO ONE trusts the American Mass Media media. I used to be Public Affairs for the Air Force. I was forced to LIE, EVERYDAY.
And Bill is just an extension of that "newstainment." I also went to school for journalism and practice it daily. Bill, however, is a HACK, just like the people he exposes. Oh, the irony.
That line is amusing until it happens to you or to someone you love. That’s the thing with Bill Maher. I don’t think anything devastating has ever happened to the guy or perhaps not to his family either.
I'm 69 years old and miss the days of Walter Cronkite when news divisions of television were NOT allowed to focus on making a profit. Then the wall came down between news and entertainment and the news industry on television died.
WC delivered the CIA talking points. The Vietnam War was won but lost by media and Democrats not to mention Jane F. A Chinese General wrote in his book that they were finished.
Reagan broke the news by destroying the Fairness Doctrine. I'm close to your age and worked as a news producer. I'm horrified by the news in silos. I trust NONE OF THEM!
Ahh, that’s why that is there. I was actually really wary, because I try to avoid any video with that word in the title and was rather unpleasantly surprised to see this old and embarrassing tactic from BM. Good to know he didn’t sink to that low. 😂
Orangeman lost me with the 💉 😷 however those who call him a certain Austrian painter...tell me one single policy that hurt you personally, you can't, there's no there there
🚩Bill & legacy media need to stop the lie & the manipulation 🤦♀️ Since Camp David, the Palestinian official Authority has recognized Israel as an independent state. Yet, the Israeli government has NEVER recognized Palestine as an independent state. 🤷♀️ Yes, non-office Palestinian extremists & terrorists refuse to recognize Israel, but at the same token, Israeli extremeists & terrorists refused to recognize Palestine! Perhaps the main difference here is that some Israeli extremists actually work as officials within the current Israeli government, e.g. Itamar Ben Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich, & Yariv Levin!🤷♀️
Thank you Bill. 4 years ago I wasn't a fan. I was stuck in the information box you described. What I find myself relying on these days is, your thought process and take on what's happening around and to us. I find you opinion well thought out, logical and above all, SANE. You don't shy away from guests with (sometimes extremely) different opinions and always speak your truth. You've shown me that people can indeed change. I did. I'm a Fan.
Bill, I can’t believe how much I am enjoying your short clips. It is telling me one thing. You are not a modern day democrat or republican. You are an American.
Not always. Are there many news outlets prone to attention grabbing headlines? Yes. But to lump them in with social media politicos of the left or right, w.hose every thumbnail implies some major "got you" moment or turning point has been reached, isn't right. There are still journalists out there doing serious work. His comments should reflect that.
this so called 'independent' media have a motivation to badmouth mainstream news. they need more people to switch to watching them instead, so THEY get more rating, while they are also just as biased, just as politically filtered, just as lacking in nuance.
I am having a hard time trying to find good journalism nowadays. Every news coverage is so superficial, reporters act like characters in a reality show, there are no news reports nor journalist researchers anymore, just people talking as outsiders, usually with a noticeable bias; meaning they are picking easy subjects. Interviews are all in starvation from hard, deep questions. And you will probably be better informed from late shows and standup comedy than from "news" channels. Journalism is dead... Money killed it.
Yeah, students have no time for protesting. They want a good education so they can make the most money to buy the biggest vehicles and televisions. Materialism is what brought down my generation. We went from "He ain't heavy, he's my brother" to pull yourself up by your own boot straps. We are not a Christian nation as the alleged Christians claim.
Were you an adult back then? These were mere "fog of war" mistakes. Most of it they DID get right. Also, Bill is now a Republican. Let's discuss, shall we? 😉
And I mean sure those students were evil and should absolutely be punished for their anti-Semitism and support for terrorism but they tried to make it out like it was everybody everywhere. Like when Donald Trump got elected and they were a handful of protests around the country and the media tried to cover it as if the whole country had come out into the streets and all of this American citizens hated Trump and nobody voted for him and it was all just Russians hacking the election which was the narrative they wanted to go with. That everyone in America hated him and nobody actually voted for him Or with abortion. The majority of Americans support reasonable restrictions on it. Wants the baby can feel pain most Americans believe that's when you shouldn't be able to have an abortion But if you watch the media you would think that everybody thinks abortions should be federally funded up until 9 months. Up until the day before the birth Or guns. You watch the media you would think that mass shootings are a mass pandemic. That every single day every kid in every school is facing multiple mass shootings and schools are just this wild west of gunfire on a weekly basis In reality mass shootings hardly ever happen. They just blow it out of proportion when it actually did.. You would be more likely to be struck by lightning twice than be involved or shot in a school shooting But you didn't realize that did you? Because they cover it in a way to make you think that it's bigger than it really is. Donald Trump said it best. The media is the enemy of the people. If we want a truly free country then the media landscape has to change. I don't know if it needs more regulation or maybe the government should outright ban most media outlets and issue licenses that require you they follow basic journalistic standards or maybe some other kind of thing. Maybe some kind of free market solution that nobody thought of. But something has to happen because the media is the enemy of the people and the media does need to be reigned in
Amen! Here in Columbus at OSU where there are 60k students the local media especially channel 10 which is ABC went live for over 90 minutes at a protest of about 250 300 people. Really .5% of the student body doing anything warrants 90 minutes? The media clearly has an agenda to push. The PALESTINIAN agenda...
I also must say the RIGHT is overblowing this as well. However their motive is good IMHO. They're going to finally try to rid academia of far left ideology. This issue has really opened up American eyes to how bad the indoctrination is on most campuses and use the REAL antisemitism on these campuses to break the lefts hold on the youth. If they're smart that is...
Every moral person on Earth is against zionist crimes hun. And yes, thousands across the country and globe are waking up to zionist crimes. Game's up for these clowns.
@@jlev1028hey genius. Scroll up and read what he wrote again. And then read it again. And then again. And then try harder at putting together a calm coherent thought that's relevant. Reading comprehension is an important skill
I've never seen any students in fear of school shooters at their university or students pushing gun control either. Yet, the media portrays them as a huge voting bloc.
As a reporter, retired now after over 30 years of doing it, Maher is spot-on with this analysis, especially media corporately-owned or at the national level. These days it is ratings and revenue, and precious little else. I usually try to sample several different media outlets; print, broadcast and occasionally cable. But far too many want what they want to hear and see, and they find it on the internet. Heaven help us all.
@@leviashanken2506 but Maher spared the left as often as he could and pandered to them. Still is, just a little less now. He goes Vote Blue No Matter Who every election Its boring and obvious
Maher is talking to his petit bourgeoisie audience in the manner the morons deserve. Newsflash kiddies, while Billy is trying to make it sound as if 'Yellow Journalism' is something new, it's been and is being studied to this very day by more learned members of society than his audience apparently. It's been studied for well over a century now in the precise sense of the word. He'll tell you he's not a journalist, but one knows he aspires to punditry in the Will Rogers style. Having said that, he in fact has become, who he is mocking, only in a much less palatable manner. He's calling his fellow pundits out for something he's doing himself. Then again, rather than him being just another garden variety opportunist, he might just be someone totally ignorant about his hypocrisy. Shred that.
Wie schön, mal zwischendurch jemanden zu hören der noch alle TASSEN IM SCHRANK hat!!! Und der diesen Medienwahn klar und präzise analysiert! Wenn er jetzt noch seinen obnoxious Whoo-Heuler im Publikum los würde... Greetings from Germany, Bill! Please stay awesome and don't get too much BIDIGULOUS. ;-)))
74 year old black Vietnam veteran. Damn Bill ! There you go with that logic shit. As far as news, Uncle Walter is GOD. Now, news is what comes out the north end of a south bound bull. Cronkite cared about the truth. He's the reason I took news broadcast in college.
How does being black make what u said more relevant? Why do blacks always feel they have to say..., black man here 😂 like it makes their comment more valid
Except for..... Vietnam, he was wrong and completely ignorant. He was tired of War, Who Isn't but if you want something to end make sure YOU get the Complete Facts, without personal biases influencing you. The U.S. after the "Tet Offensive" was actually in it's Best position for victory. Read N.Vietnam General Giap. ".... the Battle of Tet, you defeated us" "We knew it, we thought you knew it. But we were elated to notice your media was Helping us. They were causing more disruption in America than we could in the Battlefields. We were ready to surrender. You had won. General Giap has published his memoirs and confirmed what most Americans knew the Vietnam War was not lost in Vietnam ----- it lost at home. The press corps has its own Sons and Daughter's Blood on their hands.... The battle for Hearts and Minds.... Heart's and Minds ☝️ I have respect for Mr. Cronkite but like everyone else he has his failures and him not being exposed for his failures with Vietnam (especially Tet) have shown me how much the press is in control. I used to believe him like everyone else, Hook, Line and Sinker, but this time in his career, this time in history showed me was wrong and how THAT Didn't Matter it was what he and his cohorts thought.
It's been that way for a long, long time. I wish the US would join the rest of the western world where public colleges and universities are tuition free.
Nah it will be how do they get a house. How do they afford groceries and gas. Since Biden took office cost of living has skyrocketed, more than Trump even said it would
For media, bad news makes money and gets viewership. There's also a difference between facts and a truth. I could, for example, cite a fact, like, you're twice as likely to die eating pork when the truth would cite that a certain small part of the total population has that risk. The news isn't a lie, but rather taking a truth and stretching it to scare people into overreacting. That's basically what news is.
I stopped watching the news about 8 years ago because it just made me angry, paranoid or depressed about all of the crazy shootings, endless war, awful disasters and entrenched government corruption that I couldn’t do anything to stop!
If you think he nails it again that means you thought he nailed it before so why would you never think you would say again that he nailed it I don't get this sentence :(
@@victorcoleman949only to the truly uneducated. What university did you graduate from? What branch of the military did you serve in? Child, have you considered community college? 😂
That's why I prefer to get my news directly from wires like AP and Reuters, or European outlets such as DW. At least I know there's no slant. Are they perfect? No. But at least they don't have an agenda, like the cable news outlets in the states.
So true Bill. I was a News Photographer for 30+ years. When I first got hired, it was in a small TV MARKET but back then, you had to work your way up getting jobs in bigger markets. Getting into the bigger markets made you more money. So, when I started the NEWS is what was reported. I finally got to 1 of the larger markets, Houston. It meant more money but I was closer to home and that was a big plus. I saw how the NEWS got more artificial and how it got away from reporting facts and giving stories a 'SLANT' to influence viewers. That's when I retired. People that decided what stories would be reported that day would only do ones helpful to them. So I said ADIOS because I thought it was unprofessional to mislead viewers. I'll always remember a saying that would be used very often "IF IT BLEEDS, IT LEADS".
I almost didn't watch this video because of the title, but the joke was on us! The biggest turnoff for me is when people label everything "INSTANTLY" or "IMMEDIATELY" as if the long and arduous process of what is actually going on can be summarized in a viral clip. It's catering to the culture of "I know I'm right, so let's confirm that again, and please do all my thinking for me."
I live in a college neighborhood. There has not been a protest, march, sign, bumper sticker, keffiyeh, or chant. They just go to class, internship, study, and have the usual weekend party.
@@spaceknight793 Can you name one news anchor that wants to go back to 50 corporations that gave us news instead of the 6 corporations that give us information? Where is this activism from the media?
@@sandrasuitt6439 I may be a cynical old fuddy duddy but even I know never to give out real names or other identifying information on the internet. With four numbers at the end of your name, you must be fairly new to youtube, so this tip is free : *_Privacy legislation can neither prevent nor correct user error. Keep your data close, keep your identity closer._*
@@Ho11is2Ho11ywoodeveryday I watch people constantly being hypnotized by the news. I don't think these people care with the facts are especially if what they are watching supports their belief system. I always double check the information and so so many times it's incorrect.
It's really disturbing how easily over half the public is manipulated by media. They present a story, show only the facts they want you to hear, tell you exactly how you should interpret it, and it never occurs to the viewer to ask "is there an agenda at play? Did they leave anything out? What are the other ways I could interpret this?"
This New Rule segment reminded me a lot of the HBO series the newsrooms. "The one requirement that would change our national discourse immeasurably for the better... under no circumstances could there be paid advertising during informational broadcasting. The tax payers will give you the airwaves for free and for 23 hours a day you will make a profit but for 1 hour a night you work for us." The Newsroom (Aaron Sorkin). I wish they would bring that show back.
There is a reason the next "American Crime Story" will be about the Menendez Brothers murdering their parents - a bunch of teen girls on TikTok saw heavily slanted and cleverly edited 30 second clips of Lyle and Eric crying about being abused while wearing cute sweaters and collared shirts - and they now have a huge fan base of young people who think they should be free. A fan base that got their information from a 30 second editorial video they watched in vertical mode on their phones.
Remember when people watched the news? Real news? We HAD to watch Sunday evening news. Not only because my dad insisted but because we only had a few channels, LOL It was better than Donny & Marie.
I just watched 3000 students graduate at The University of Georgia. No protests on campus, no signs. Just kids finishing 4 years of college and excited about their futures. Go Dawgs!
@@serdna9307 You'd think that all those Muslim countries in the Middle East would open their borders & welcome Palestinian refugees the way several countries in Eastern Europe took in refugees from Ukraine. Did you ever wonder why they don't? Things that make you go hmm... Are you going to lecture those "good" Muslim people about their lack of compassion & defective values or do you only lecture Jews & the U.S.?
I don't usually comment on anything on RU-vid, but I have to say that this was one of the most encouraging and reassuring messages I have heard in a long while. It's nice to be informed without feeling like the sky is falling, or like someone is jerking your chain towards any extreme.
I would highly recommend Beau Of The Fith Column. I've been watching him for a couple years now as I got rid of watching shit starters like TYT. He is the king of breaking down media scares and explaining what's really going on. He's well informed and intelligent and focused on keeping the facts straight rather than getting everyone riled up. He's the only person who's patreon I donate to as he and his family are heavily involved in and also run charities to aid victims of natural disasters and humanitarian crisis. If you like NOT being fucked around by the media, he's your guy 👌
The media is just using fear mongering tactics, doomsaying like every doomsayer before them. Every doomsayer before them was wrong. We're all living proof of that: Y2K didn't end modern civilization, the world didn't end in 2012 (the Mayan calendar must have been chiseled incorrectly,) Harold Camping's math continues to be off, Marshall Applewhite was wrong too (not that the Heaven's Gate cult is around to know that.) Just move on with your lives, everyone. We all have better things to do.
The sky isn't falling, but there will be big changes in the future. Although mostly won't affect those of us alive today. Countries like Bangladesh will be largely uninhabitable in 50 to 100 years. Those people have to go somewhere.
Nailed it square on the head Bill. POW! Been about since 2014 I've stopped watching the news. From time to time I check my local news station. They wouldn't report anything about my city for sometimes up to 10 minutes of the beginning of the broadcast. My city's population is over half a million. Not one thing of importance going on here? Still happens to this very day. CHCH news. A channel Zero company. Says it all in the parent company's name.
Bill, THANK YOU for calling out the loaded words used in news headlines! Personally, I can't stand it when EITHER SIDE uses terms like "slams" and "destroys." Personally, I consider myself mostly a fan of Ben Shapiro and his colleagues at the Daily Wire. But I can't stand it when their RU-vid videos have headlines that say "Ben Shapiro DESTROYS woke leftist with facts and logic." This type of language used against opposing views is no way to make inroads and bring anyone over to your way of thinking. It only serves to widen the ideological divide. I've been saying this for years.
@@ccmarcum And yet, invariably, our jaws remain shut the whole time. Right? Loaded language demonstrates a lack of credibility because they’re trying to influence our opinions.
I would love to know George Carlins thoughts, opinions, complaints and grievances about all of the batshit craziness of the last 8 years or pretty much any topic Bill Maher has talked about on Real Time!
If you go on Twitter or you go to the media comment sections you'll think that the world is ending. You'll sink all these neo Nazis are everywhere and antisemitism is behind every door and under every bed Then you look at the actual poles and the majority of people stand by Israel and understand that they have a right to defend themselves. These are just a small group of Nazis that are very loud You go on these websites you'll think that the world is ending. But there's violence in the streets everybody's getting shot and nobody can afford a loaf of bread But you go out in the real world and yeah things might not be perfect things might be getting more expensive but it's not like it appears on social media. It's just a bad actors have understood that social media is a great way to manipulate people. The Russians figured that out in 2016 And tons of other people figured it out after. It doesn't have to be true but they can use social media to spread disinformation. And it's not just the Russians
Nothing any of us that grew up with Uncle Walter (Cronkite) couldn't tell you, but this was done magnificently. This should be required viewing Day 1 of every Journalism 101 class in the country.
Finally enough the movie anchorman 2 actually illustrates this perfectly.. The entire plot of that movie is Ron Burgundy realizing that he can make way more money and get way more viewers by sensationalizing the news and even making things up then actually reporting on the truth I'm not even sure if Will Ferrell meant it to be that way but that's the way it went
Bill Maher is brain dead. Like when he mocks the news for quoting the 3 loudest people on Twitter, when just interviewed the loudest Karen on Twitter recently, Elon Musk, and fanned all over him.
I don't watch ANY broadcast or cable news any more, and I'm even sick of the hyberbole in the headlines of the Washington Post. The ONLY trustworthy, decent news today is the PBS News Hour. They have an unbeatable news team that "get it" insofar as depth and commitment go.
Why? More details please because it's rather hard to believe protestors at a university of that size (a major university) could actually get in the way that much. Did they just block every parking lot or something? University parking is already a major pain but idk, I'm trying to picture how that would come about. Also, I don't really mean to take it there necessarily but if it was just "another war", that'd be one thing I guess. But genocides (genocidal wars) are a bit different and demand swift rebuke by the public and most of the world otherwise it could be normalized as 'just war' or just another run-of-the-mill armed conflict. I mean, Putin is bad enough with his brutal (but not really unconventional) war further up north, but what Netanyahu is doing is somehow even worse. Anyway.. my only critique or question really for the college campus protestors is; "why there? why protest at a college campus?" Like I really don't understand why they are protesting and causing scenes on college/university campuses of all places and not government facilities or sites? And what were/are even their demands anyways? Because I've heard that being reported but I can't imagine what these kids are expecting or requesting from their school with regard to a crisis happening in Gaza.
