Georg Complains: Journalism 

There's a reason the film Network was developed and released all the way back in 1976. News was always mostly nonsense. The real trouble starts when policymakers take that nonsense seriously

I was, in fact, thinking "It's Friday, Friday. Gotta get down on Friday."

Journalism peaked when that lady fell out of the grape stomp barrel.

The best part of it was when the moderator asked a question about supporting Trump if he was convicted, DeSantis and Pence looked around to raise their hands up.

As a former journalist, I spend weeks and sometimes months on research and sourcing information. The information I wrote about had to be valid, but many people on networks are doing interest pieces which mainly rely on sensationalism. The truth is boring and scary, but it's the truth. Many people would much rather be blissfully ignorant than woefully educated.

For most people? Politics has become of the same quality as a WWE event. The crowd acts like that, and the journalists keep it lively.

That all this has to be said, is a huge black mark on the state of not just journalism, but on civics education.

Did you hear about the kids that survived a plane crash and survived on their own in the Amazon for weeks? Might've missed it because my news station covered it for FOURTY SECONDS!...A remarkable tale, a defining moment of everyone involved's lives, an inspiration in determination, skill, and cunningness....40 seconds worth talking about. I've quit watching news since.

Now I gotta rewatch the Leprechaun in Alabama for the 1,000th time

Probably all that hiptang in the bloody water.

Damn, I was really interested in what Jim Bob Tackerberger had to say about his spoons

Once again georg has hit the nail on the head with his intelligent witty way

8:55 The magical leprechaun flute! Passed down for generations

Actual, good journalism is a beautiful thing to see. Unfortunately, it's also very resource and time intensive and usually doesn't provide much material reward. I wonder how many news organizations today could or would do a story like the one portrayed in 'Spotlight'. All news organizations have one bias or another, but I think the general public's understanding to these biases are simplified to the point where many will just reject anything from certain sources out of hand. It's almost never a journalist making up a story out of whole cloth, it's who they use for sources, which sources they exclude, that kind of stuff. I really suggest people look up the five filters of mass media as described by 'Manufacturing Consent." I think that does a good job of explaining the factors one should consider when thinking about the news.

Glad you name dropped Adam Curtis, I always figured you had at least seen some of this films.

11:02 I’m not kidding, right when Georg mentioned Velveeta Cheese, thunder struck outside of my bedroom window, velveeta cheese is truly the route of all evil!!!

My hometown of Ballarat Victoria... never thought I'd see that on this fine channel. Hi GRS!

That's why I actively seek information. I don't necessarily trust what's broadcast at me.

I loved the humor in the form of the editing at 9:16. The dramatic slow reveal of the article, descending further and further into madness as we- the viewer- try and anticipate what the hell is so important that it took up the entire front page of the magazine. It somehow continues to surprise with each sweeping vertical slope downards, until finally revealing that this headline worthy news essentially amounted to: "a monkey descendent adjusted the cloth on its body"

Concerning the debate moderators, their job was more like an attorney during a deposition, simply ask questions and record the answers for all to see. Commentary or pushback would undermine the purpose of getting the subject to respond on the record that all can review in the future.

John Huston went on a toot, you say? With Gene Kelly, no less. Your videos never fail to educate, thank you.

the newsroom tv show brought this up like 10 years ago specifically that point about hosting a debate and letting the candidate lie or utter nonsense.

Great vid. Reminded me some of the last episode of James Burke's Connections.

Journalism for consumption by the masses isn't journalism. It's a piss-poor excuse for it.

You gotta be doing something right when White House secretaries are advising companies what to do about certain photogenic ghouls.

Great essay, as a,ways, thank you Georg.

George is sooo underrated!

Everyone thinks they hate journalists enough, but they don't.

When the video first started for a moment i thought Will Smith was going to start his Fresh Prince of Bel Air rap

How the F*** did you know I woke up with that song in my head and sang it in the shower Georg? HOW GEORG?

Are those the drums from the Phil Collins song, I feel like i recognize three songs mixed in that intro.

was that black and white clip the old lady being asked if aliens are out there

Sometimes I wish the sun would just explode.

Georg please could you post this later when I’ll be just home from the pub and half cut?

I was thinking “it’s Friday Friday Friday”

Love your videos

I agree that people are pretty uninformed, but if you look at polling, a majority of people generally have the right ideas about most major issues. I’d say that the greatest threat to mankind isn’t that people don’t want action on things like climate change, it’s that our leaders have no intention of doing what people want. In other words, the threat is to mankind is that a tiny minority fully plan to let the worst happen to the majority so they can accumulate as much as possible before the collapse.

what the hell, I sent Rebeca Black's classic to some people today

Great video 👏👏👏 more people need to watch u

There's a big difference between a dealer who lies to you, adulterates the product they sell you, rips you off and just generally doesn't care whether you live or die and a dealer who wants you to have a good time but isn't willing to cross those lines. That goes all the way up the chain. Either you are doing your best to get the truth out there or you're shilling. I don't forgive those who sit comfortably at the top shilling for other powerful bags of excrement. They have a choice.

Yeah; that's great and all but WHERE CAN I BUY THOSE AWESOME SPOONS???

loved the celebrity deathmatch motif

I wish the News also concluded some of the stories it reports. For all I know, New Orleans has continued getting hammered by Hurricane Katrina for two decades lol

that's not what I was thinking... but it is now

Dave Chappelle said it best. Nowadays the news being so widespread and with so much happening around the world it makes it look like the Challenger Disaster seemingly every day. Its hard not to be driven insane with so much bad being reported and so little good.

You've got to get down on Friday. The icing changes, but it's the same fucking cake. You know, the one that everyone wants to eat, and have, but definitely not bake. P.S. Your clip choices are amazing.

and the kicker, "if you don't vote the way I vote, then you are only doing it because cable news told you too"

The Debate was as interesting as watching my doggo get his nails clipped. I watched Tuck n Trump.

Partying, partying, yeah!

Brilliant!

this is an exceptionally good video... i hope you do more of these in the future... your unique perspective on this things is quite refreshing...

Service Guarantees Citizenship

I ❤ when Georg complains! But I was waiting to hear where there ARE good journalists. Besides Glenn Greenwald.

Great video.

Hit it again, georg!

You were right

Yes

Adam Curtis now theres a documentarian who's work everyone should watch

Random people often have large blind spots in their knowledge and that's not a bad thing, human knowledge is decentralized by nature, understanding of how a car works is arguably more important for civilization than understanding of political issues but "never argue with someone who buys ink by the barrel," as they say. Also, in the grand historical perspective it's miraculous that voting even exists, and I don't take for granted that it will continue to exist for a hundred additional years.

I’ll watch the video later, but you should look into that one time when journalists agitated a war with Spain for the clicks (thousands died)

Nice.

I wanted to hear about the spoons.

Brilliant take 😂

0:45, the debate's moderation may have been "indifferent, inept, ineffectual (or) incompetent." The one thing it was most definitely mnot was "ambivalent."

Sensation! Sensation!Sensation!

Friday! Friday! Friday!

Leave off the apologies, there are good and bad "magazines, and this is the good one and you know it!

Everyone is the press.

Of course RU-vid auto plays cnn Ramaswamy after this video. The anchor ask what he's about, he says "american identity" and they don't ask him to reiterate, when hes clearly saying racism in GOP Lol

No, Its Saturday here in Australia George

As a Chartered Engineer i am member of a professional institute that requires a minimum level of competence, continual development and ethical behaviour; without membership of the institute i would not be employed at the level i am .... journalists ... not so much ... by making comments in youtube, i could claim to be a journalist ?

disappointed that you didn't start rapping at the beginning

Does drea have the makings of a varsity athlete.

Damn

I'm waiting for the democratic debate

The fact you didn't rap in the beginning upsets me.

Dear Sir, it is not Friday here.

Funny....as always! And in my humble opinion, quite correct sir. There is minor, minor point though. You can do something about Ukraine. You can go there and volunteer. Even if for a couple of weeks. Plenty of options. I'd start in Lviv personally. It's very beautiful....much like Prague (Austro-Hungarian architecture etc). You'd meet great peeps, good food, cheap.... Just saying. 🇬🇧

Read that Debord book

5:08 👀

10:22 Robin!

It's Saturday

Maybe this topic was uncomfortable enough for everyone so that it's appropriate to get phoned in. I've occasionally wondered if you weren't using a pen name to write for the new Yorker. Don't beat yourself up. I really appreciate this format, and normally the subject is either more pressing or a little recognized detail in a much belabored story previously reported with less detail and much more repetition. Maybe I'll watch it again tomorrow. But most importantly I will still be a fan of your channel tomorrow and likely for many more tomorrows. Sometimes I even wonder what your channel will look like in twenty years, maybe RU-vid Immersive VR. Maybe I'll be one of the old people who sit in the park and look at a screen still. Or maybe there'll be a century long interlude where most of us are brains in jars who use RU-vid Immersive VR so that we can feel like we're sitting in the park still using devices with screens. I'm still meaning to watch your movie, please leave it up until I see it.

No I hide it really well

it is friday : ]

The price we pay for the public not being interested in current affairs is people vote for their team because it's easier, and they don't have to spend time listening to others point of view. They should ban the term left and right when it comes to political views. As, people will vote for their team, even if the person would be a terrible leader. (Donald Trump)

This was a sad one. :(

😅

Damn, that "ghosts and demons" poll kinda says and explains it all, on its own. If that's what we're dealing with, is it any surprise that these same people cannot coherently understand complex topics that the real truth about is simply depressing to fully comprehend? I agree with everything you say here, but particularly that "people who are interested in, and can understand, complex human topics are, and have always been, in the minority". And though you alluded to it several times, it's this bad without you even directly mentioning deliberate, engineered propaganda. Like just about anything one hears on NPR or traditionally "left-leaning" big corporate media about the war in Ukraine. As a life-long Leftist who cut my political-awareness-teeth on the Supreme Court's interference in the 2000 election, PNAC, 9/11 and the immediate irrational focus upon Iraq in the aftermath, and then the actual war itself, watched or listened to Democracy Now for my whole 20's and early 30's, and still do when I get the chance to or am in the mood, I feel like I'm living in Looney-Toon-Land listening to all the corporate "left" outlets that criticized that war, cheering for the war in Ukraine. I feel sick remembering Obama's "chemical weapons Syria" speeches, the 2014 Ukraine Coup, and realizing that, essentially since the assassination of JFK, whatever one wants to think about that, but since then, there has simply been no real, actual, anti-war choice for the public, in this so-called Democracy, when Eisenhower had given his cowardly, last minute, end-of-term (but all the same very clear) warning about the Military-Industrial-Complex only a few short years earlier. In short, all of us who are curious, clear-eyed, and rational about these topics regardless of how sickening the reality is, have been expertly corralled off to the edges, and essentially out of, both major political parties. Whichever one isn't currently in power takes on a fake "anti-war" stance on whatever war the one in power is in charge of, but then does the exact same thing themselves, the next place on the globe the people truly in charge of things want to focus, when they are pushed back into power by the pendulum of general public sickness with whatever the last war was. I was a teenager during Clinton's time in office, and got the misleading impression, I guess mainly due to the collapse of the CCCP and my own youthful ignorance, that there was some kind of difference between the parties on the matter, when that time had already long passed before I was even born. At least there is some kind of actual choice when it comes to domestic policy still, but even that is also obviously and deeply corrupt. I remember being an older teenager and thinking about all the older people talking about "The Lesser Evil" before the 2000 election and thinking they were nuts... now I get it. But those of us who do get it are simply not part of the discourse on any corporate media... and though I have a romanticized view, still, of the major media in the 50's and 60's and 70's, before the eradication of the Fairness Doctrine and the Neoliberal, Corporate takeover of *everything* , you're probably right that it was never good.... it only got worse than it already was in the first place due to those things.

there are only pundits

Hiding your masochistic fetish with select word choices such as "accidently" is not healthy.

The independent progressive left wing media outlets is where to get decent reporting ❤❤

When immersed in the horror of modern life people like to give themselves the out, if the victims of horror are struggling, maybe I don't have to feel sorry for them. Maybe they deserve it. Maybe if it's meant to be, it will be. It's Melvin Lerner's Just-World Hypothesis, or maybe I should say Martin Luther's Work Ethic, meets Timothy Snyder's Politics of Inevitability. Those Politics are the precursor for the one loud clear voice of the Politics of Eternity. God? Dear Leader? TomAtoe, tomAHto.

What websites would you recommend for decent reporting Georg?

You've changed byron

duh

I'm first! I'm famous! Hahahaha nothing can stop me now!

Watch “Breaking Points”

I needed about 30 minutes listening to politics to realize it was entirely performative. Meaning - it means nothing but hollow rhetoric. Climate change is real - yes. In your head.

Dudelet is my new favorite insult