I stumbled on this YouTube channel and really like it. It's called The Real News Network.
It's interesting to watch because you get extended interviews that you just don't get in the mainstream media. Even when there is a monster crisis and you have 24-hour coverage of something, it's generally 24 hours wherein they speak to 100 different people for a maximum of two minutes at a time. It's this constant two minute refresh cycle - recap the news, talk to someone for two minutes, recap the news again, talk to someone else for two minutes, recap the news ad infinitum.
With TRNN you actually get interviews that can be over 30 minutes. I was watching one today in which they were discussing the whole financial crisis of 2008 and while I knew most of what they discussed, there were some tid bits in there that I hadn't known. The video is below:
Obviously they aren't on the scale of CNN, but it's still fascinating content and I think pretty good reporting. It seems like their focus is less on simply describing a situation, but rather getting at all the surround sound / nuances (why did it happen, what's really going on a couple layers down, etc.). Personally, that's what I look for in my news, I don't just want to know what happened, but how it happened and what it's impact will be.
This is also a great example of how a small operation can make a go of things using the Internet. Who knows, in five-years from now TRNN (and other folks using the Internet like this) could knock a lot of the big boys off their thrones. You never know.
It's interesting to watch because you get extended interviews that you just don't get in the mainstream media. Even when there is a monster crisis and you have 24-hour coverage of something, it's generally 24 hours wherein they speak to 100 different people for a maximum of two minutes at a time. It's this constant two minute refresh cycle - recap the news, talk to someone for two minutes, recap the news again, talk to someone else for two minutes, recap the news ad infinitum.
With TRNN you actually get interviews that can be over 30 minutes. I was watching one today in which they were discussing the whole financial crisis of 2008 and while I knew most of what they discussed, there were some tid bits in there that I hadn't known. The video is below:
Obviously they aren't on the scale of CNN, but it's still fascinating content and I think pretty good reporting. It seems like their focus is less on simply describing a situation, but rather getting at all the surround sound / nuances (why did it happen, what's really going on a couple layers down, etc.). Personally, that's what I look for in my news, I don't just want to know what happened, but how it happened and what it's impact will be.
This is also a great example of how a small operation can make a go of things using the Internet. Who knows, in five-years from now TRNN (and other folks using the Internet like this) could knock a lot of the big boys off their thrones. You never know.
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