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LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
Mon Mar 23, 2015, 10:55 AM Mar 2015

If you are not watching VICE - you should!

Some of the best hard-hitting investigative journalism on TV today. Although this show airs on HBO (Bill Maher is the executive producer), the founder of VICE, Shane Smith, worked out a deal to ensure that anyone can view the show - you can always go to You Tube and catch episodes there.

I watch it on HBOGO. I missed it last week and found it intriguing to watch both last weeks and this week's episode back to back.

Last week they had a piece on the militarization of the police including how the police were using excessive force in Ferguson. Their reporter was there in Ferguson at the protest with the protesters getting tear gassed with everyone else. I was at awe watching the police treating the protesters like criminal when all the protesters were doing was protesting how the police were using excessive force too often.

YET...

Next week they had a reporter who met and trained with one of the patriot groups. You know, those anti-Obama militia groups building up small arsenal of military stockpiles. They even had someone at the Bundy Camp and to watch these people go up against the police - seeing the EXACT OPPOSITE of Ferguson. I remember that there was tear gas used against the protesters at the Bundy Camp in Nevada and the media went apeshit crazy. Yet no one seemed to care when they did it against the same protesters in Missouri.

What's worse, I had no clue the number of police officers that have been shot by these tea-party militia groups that basically get IGNORED by the media. I guess a black person does it we have to stop the presses so Faux News can harp on it 24X7 for weeks on end but when White people do it we bury it because no one needs to hear about that

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tkmorris

(11,138 posts)
1. I read VICE daily
Mon Mar 23, 2015, 11:06 AM
Mar 2015

Somehow I missed that they had a show on HBO, so thanks for that.

I also find their journalism to be some of the best available today. It can be somewhat hit or miss because much of their material appears to be submitted by journalists, some amateurs, who are only loosely affiliated with the organization. It is without fail REAL however, and always interesting, even accounting for the (at times) uneven writing styles.

valerief

(53,235 posts)
3. I haven't watched enough of them. But you're right. It's the only(?) investigative
Mon Mar 23, 2015, 11:39 AM
Mar 2015

journalism on U.S. mainstream TV now. (60 Minutes is a joke.)

Vice on HBO--YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=VICE+on+HBO

Website
http://www.vice.com/tag/vice+on+hbo

 

closeupready

(29,503 posts)
8. I know, right - 60 Minutes preview with Lara Logan made me chuckle
Mon Mar 23, 2015, 12:28 PM
Mar 2015

even though the subject was very serious and disturbing.

VERY distant are the days when a mainstream filmmaker could, with a straight face, propose a film about an industry-crippling segment on 60 Minutes (thinking of 1999's "The Insider" here).

blm

(113,079 posts)
10. 60 minutes can't even get into the arena with VICE at this point.
Mon Mar 23, 2015, 01:35 PM
Mar 2015

CBS's spine was broken by 2004.

blm

(113,079 posts)
9. Lynne - I have been following RW extremist attacks on law enforcement and
Mon Mar 23, 2015, 01:31 PM
Mar 2015

when I heard about the cops being shot in Ferguson I said the possibility that it could be a RW extremist should be considered, given the marked increase in cops being targeted in recent years. Some people here treated it like conspiracy theory.

Corpmedia does not want to go near the story and I'm not sure law enforcement wants them to spotlight it considering these people see every attack on law enforcement as the beginning of the 'revolution' they have been preparing for at some length. Snowball effect.

valerief

(53,235 posts)
11. The some people here who treat it like bullshit should be suspect.
Mon Mar 23, 2015, 01:46 PM
Mar 2015

There are a shitload of trolls (new and long-term) on here. They're the herpes/Whack-a-Mole of the internet. When one is axed, another pops up.

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