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<includeonly>[[Image:ViceCovers.jpg| 96px|right|]]</includeonly><noinclude>[[Image: ViceCovers.jpg| 320px|right]]</noinclude>Vice is a hard left outlet, that exists to twist every news story from a hard left PoV. Like the worst of WaPo, HuffPo and a basement blogger, all screaming against the injustices of the anyone with a clue. Other than the bad journalism, they were created as a pump-and-dump scam, that seems to have been successful -- sensationalism sells, and this was dot-com version of website replacing the old stodgy ink-stained fingers, with younger and hipper writing (ignore the quality beneath SuperMarket tabloids): it's clickbait journalism Pied Piper, only instead of leading the rats out of the sewer, it lead the other so-called jouranlistic institutions down into them.
<noinclude>[[Image: ViceCovers.jpg| 320px|right]]</noinclude>Vice is a hard left outlet, that exists to twist every news story from a hard left PoV. Like the worst of WaPo, HuffPo and a basement blogger, all screaming against the injustices of the anyone with a clue. Other than the bad journalism, they were created as a pump-and-dump scam, that seems to have been successful -- sensationalism sells, and this was dot-com version of website replacing the old stodgy ink-stained fingers, with younger and hipper writing (ignore the quality beneath SuperMarket tabloids): it's clickbait journalism Pied Piper, only instead of leading the rats out of the sewer, it lead the other so-called jouranlistic institutions down into them.
 
 
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==Flim-flam from the get-go==
 
==Flim-flam from the get-go==

Revision as of 15:57, 29 January 2019

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Vice is a hard left outlet, that exists to twist every news story from a hard left PoV. Like the worst of WaPo, HuffPo and a basement blogger, all screaming against the injustices of the anyone with a clue. Other than the bad journalism, they were created as a pump-and-dump scam, that seems to have been successful -- sensationalism sells, and this was dot-com version of website replacing the old stodgy ink-stained fingers, with younger and hipper writing (ignore the quality beneath SuperMarket tabloids): it's clickbait journalism Pied Piper, only instead of leading the rats out of the sewer, it lead the other so-called jouranlistic institutions down into them.

Flim-flam from the get-go

NY Mag sort of sums up the basics as, "Shane Smith’s plan for Vice was that, by the time the suckers caught on, he’d never be stuck owning the company he co-founded."

Vice was founded in 1994 when Bullshitter Shane (and his partners) started using money from a government welfare program, to start a magazine in Montreal that was funny, hip, and off-color. Of course the problem with fad-following (or leading) is that fads change quickly, and today's hip terms become yesterday's "Bitchen" or "Rad" way too quickly. Shane was almost a sociopathic liar that believe his own bullshit, and became a master of convincing clueless corporate boards that they had their finger on the pulse of youth, and they needed to partner up or get left behind... then he mocked those same rubes for giving him money (behind their backs, of course). He paid (or conned) actors to convince reporters and businessmen alike that a bigger deal was around the corner, so they better get in now. He was a party hound that knew how to show potential investors a good time. And once the company was inflated enough, the founder fled with as much capital as he could, and then was free to blame the eminent demise on his successors.

Don't get me wrong, I think they actually kinda had their fingers on the pulse of youth. (Which isn't THAT hard: be irreverent and tear down every institution of authority). But the problem is today's 18-22 year old's, are tomorrows 30-something's. And as they age, they learn a bit more wisdom and skepticism (so you lose them), and tomorrow's 18-22 year old's, don't give a shit what yesterday's 18-22 year old's liked -- often the opposite. So by going for youth, they were grasping at smoke. When Obama came around, he was cool -- so they fawned all over him. As the kids aged and wised, he wasn't as cool -- and by then, Vice converted from being a cult-of-youth (editorially), to a progressive tools that were too committed to their ideology to catch the next wind-shift.

Guns

A good example of Vice's incompetent bias is this article on How California Gun Laws may have saved lives in the YouTube Shooting.

They use the us the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence "study" to prove their point. But that propaganda mill doesn't produce studies, it produces bad jokes that anyone with any journalistic credibility would never let grace their pages or airwaves. And their own additions to that crap-sandwhich, only made it worse:

  1. they use bad studies to prove their point in visually appealing ways (pretty garbage sells to their audience)
  2. they don't have any competent fact checkers or standards, or this wouldn't have run without at least some caveats
  3. there's absolutely zero evidence presented that California's gun laws actually helped.
  4. none of that study showed that the using a pistol is less effective than an assault rifle in close quarters. (Most with a clue, know that is laughable). So even the points they made, were off-topic.

Fortunately, for them, they appeal to the more gullible demographics (age, party or culture), so bullshit sells. But for the rest of us, it screams: discredited propaganda, from dishonest sources. (Or at least incompetent ones).