PickVidsBest Media, journalism & propaganda Videos
The 334 Media, journalism & propaganda videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 2 introductory, 2 intermediate, 330 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a commentary. What they share is that something that already happened gets one reading. Channels you will keep seeing include LastWeekTonight, Innuendo Studios, CNN.
Explained: New Navy UFO Videos
Mick West explains the three Navy UFO videos (FLIR, GIMBAL and GOFAST) released in 2020, giving mundane explanations such as a distant plane and camera artifacts.
The REAL Reason McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken
Johnny Harris investigates why McDonald's ice cream machines are so often broken, covering the Taylor machines, the repair restrictions on franchisees and the Kytch workaround device.
Government Surveillance: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver interviews Edward Snowden about NSA surveillance, including street interviews showing people have not thought about what the government can see.
Jon Stewart on Crossfire
Jon Stewart appears as a guest on CNN's Crossfire in 2004 and criticizes hosts Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala for turning political debate into partisan theater that hurts America.
Pig Butchering Scams: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
A Last Week Tonight segment on pig butchering scams, in which long-con romance and investment fraud is run, often by trafficked workers.
Opioids: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
A Last Week Tonight segment on the US opioid epidemic, tracing how prescription painkillers fed addiction and heroin use.
Joe Rogan Experience #1361 - Cmdr. David Fravor & Jeremy Corbell
A Joe Rogan podcast with retired Navy commander David Fravor, who describes his 2004 Tic Tac UFO encounter, and filmmaker Jeremy Corbell.
Jordan Peterson debate on the gender pay gap, campus protests and postmodernism
Channel 4 News's full interview with Jordan Peterson, in which Cathy Newman presses him on the gender pay gap, patriarchy, campus protests and postmodernism.
College Lecture Series - Neil Postman - "The Surrender of Culture to Technology"
Neil Postman's 1997 lecture at College of DuPage, based on his book, argues that Americans treat technology as a national religion and depend on it to solve larger human problems.
KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov 1985 Interview. Explains KGB Manipulation of US Public Opinion
A 1985 interview by G.
Gimbal UFO - A New Analysis
Mick West analyzes the Navy's Gimbal UFO video and gives four checkable observations suggesting it is an infrared glare that appears to rotate because the camera rotates while tracking.
The Boeing 787: Broken Dreams l Al Jazeera Investigations
An Al Jazeera investigation into Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, featuring current and former engineers who voice safety concerns.
How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Views
Kurzgesagt argues that Facebook's claimed 8 billion daily video views are inflated by freebooting, meaning re-uploads of creators' videos.
FULL INTERVIEW with Yuri Bezmenov: The Four Stages of Ideological Subversion (1984)
The full 1984 interview with Yuri Bezmenov, a former KGB operative, in which he lays out four stages of ideological subversion.
ADL's Never Is Now 2019 | ADL International Leadership Award Presented to Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Baron Cohen's speech accepting the ADL International Leadership Award, in which he criticizes social media companies for amplifying hate and propaganda.
I Watched Ancient Apocalypse So You Don't Have To (Part 1)
Miniminuteman begins a long, humorous point-by-point debunking of Graham Hancock's Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse and its claims of a lost ice-age civilization.
Televangelists: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on televangelists and the 'seed faith' prosperity gospel.
Operation InfeKtion: How Russia Perfected the Art of War | NYT Opinion
A New York Times Opinion documentary tracing Soviet and KGB disinformation, from the 1980s AIDS origin hoax to modern campaigns like Pizzagate.
Exposing Tether - Bitcoin's Biggest Secret
Coffeezilla gives a comprehensive history of Tether, the stablecoin issued by a company controlled by the owners of Bitfinex.
Flat Earth: A Measured Response
hbomberguy investigates the modern flat earth movement and why people come to believe it.
Noam Chomsky: The five filters of the mass media machine | The Listening Post
A short Al Jazeera animation narrated by Amy Goodman presenting Noam Chomsky's five filters of the mass media: ownership, advertising, media elite sourcing, flak and a common enemy.
The Alt-Right Playbook: Control the Conversation
Innuendo Studios' video from the Alt-Right Playbook series on how bad-faith actors control the conversation through debate tactics and moving goalposts.
The Alt-Right Playbook: How to Radicalize a Normie
A video essay from the Alt-Right Playbook series that explains how extremist movements draw ordinary people in, using deniable rhetoric, bad-faith games, and gradual escalation.
Explained: "Go Fast" UFO Video - Not Low and Not Fast - Like a Balloon!
Mick West analyzes the Navy "Go Fast" UFO footage and shows with simple trigonometry and the data overlay that the object is slow and high up, consistent with a balloon.