Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
plates?
Cut-throat Colombian drug barons who obsessively collect Princess Diana plates. Probably.
plates?
that is 1 way of looking at it. do you think it is the only?
Even with the mainstreaming and success, even with the imperfections and problems, i still enjoy Vice content once in a while, and DAMN glad it exists rather than not.
Voice of privilege? what media, music, film, in the West isn't?
Exploitative? on the other hand it DOES expose injustice and inequity on a global scale in a way other publications are not doing.
Jackass of news? But reaching a young western audience who otherwise would be much less informed of the devastating toll, and disastrous consequences of their privilege.
I reckon it contributes a lot to this
what DOESN'T contrute to that?
That is a phenomenon, like the short itself explains, with roots a bit older, and a lot bigger, than Vice.
A subscription to Amnesty International's magazine, for example, contributes less to that phenomena in the sense that you are actually required to care about what you read in a financial sense and your money is used to at least attempt to improve the situations they decry. Whereas with Vice you pay no money and are instead yourself commodotised via advertising for the (considerable) financial gain of the proprieters.
sure. but then again there is the demographic and audience issue - 20 -30 year olds are not reading Amnesty International, are they? and saying they should is about as useful as saying the world should be more equal and just.
I've watched a bunch of their short news docs on Youtube. Some are really good and are bringing to light stories that would otherwise never get covered. Some are sensationalistic in just the manner you'd expect from Vice. Low on substance and high on people with no teeth holding snakes.