YouTube’s Biggest Info Channels Carry Corporate News, Not Alternative Views
fair.org
Despite the focus on YouTube's independent and sometimes extremist offerings, 83 of the top 100 YouTube news channels are corporate media,

The Young Turks, hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, is a left-wing news commentary channel.

Uh… not really.

The rest of the article is fine (if painfully unsurprising), though:

While YouTube offers the possibility for independent sites to reach a wider audience, its most-subscribed news channels remain largely reflective of the corporate biases of the global media landscape as a whole.

  • knfrmity
    7·
    2 years ago

    In general I actually really like the meta-reporting FAIR does. They have such a satisfying no-nonsense style of calling out mainstream media on their bullshit using the very same media institutions as sources and references.

    • Godless_Nematode@lemmy.ml
      5·
      2 years ago

      Let’s see what RT America has to say about YT censorship…what?..really? OK, I’ll just listen to Lee Camp on Spotify…what’s that you say?..bummer. What?..watch the Young Turks’ channel?..I’ll pass, I hate when my ears bleed.