Bleeding Edge

As we build the News Services for Tomorrow, we keep looking at the New Vice News, and style the “TheNewsCommons” as the next big thing.

It’s a new News and Citizen Journalism StartUp that allows the many citizen news journalism sites congregate along with the Citizens surveilling Authority and the Excesses of the Bureaucracies that stifle Human Liberty today across the world.

We do this hoping that by observation — much like when we observe Quantum particles — authorities and bureaucracies, governments, and the Police forces — will only get better.

So let’s join up to provide Quality Citizen Journalism for Progress and Growth as I’ve done over the years with the founding of the Panos Institute of London, and with the “Voices” that have helped far too many people across the Earth, control the excesses of Authority in many difficult parts of the World and that to this day help us fight Corruption, Climate Change, and the Dictatorial Authorities that want to limit our Liberty and our Self Determination as beings fully endowed with Free Will.

So let’s follow now the TheNewsCommons as we built the next Citizen Journalism for our World, and if you have a willingness to work with us and be a Leader — please holler loudly herewith.

Make sure to mind the door and not the gap…

But observing the state of the new News Business today, I must state that Vice News Tonight, just killed it.

They reclaimed the space we forgot, and they reminded us, that news is all about trust.

The roving neo-journos of Vice are going to take over the news business, and they’re gonna hijack it in plain sight, just like MTV did with Music and over the space of a couple of years, became the music juggernaut.

But this is different. Because Vice is built for the twenty first century. Where how you look is secondary to who you are.

The hosts are a cornucopia of sexes and ethnicities. They looked like America. Where everybody is just not that bimbo that reads your news in your local news station like the weather girl out there. The people at the cable news networks are also morbidly indifferent and the big names are not to be trusted anymore after all the revelations that we had with the corruption and complicity with the Hillary Clinton and the DNC machine to fabricate news and make people believe fake news and insanities…

Thinking of that it comes as a refreshing reality that the Vice show was strangely riveting, like watching a younger, multi-culti, sexier and hipper, version of “60 Minutes.” It was news with gravitas for an educated viewer, it was a home run.

And it seems that it will only get better.

We can argue all day long whether millennials watch television.

One thing we know for sure is HBO is the most trusted name in television, its imprimatur is priceless, and yes, millennials do watch “Game Of Thrones.”

And they’re newshounds.

Forget Fox News. Its audience is so aged the outlet should be sponsored by mortuaries.

The networks think it’s about slickness. The local stations are a joke, peopled by bimbos, both male and female, it’s a caricature of the news.

But “Vice News Tonight”… It was the real thing.

While all its competitors are cutting back, believing it’s about balancing the books, Vice is doubling-down and will take over, right under everybody’s noses, it’s quite a remarkable story. Vice knows the marketplace has changed, people want to know and they want someone/something to trust, and if you provide this…

It’s a clubhouse for nerds. And last I checked, nerds ruled the earth. Not the pocket protector geeks of yore, but those unworried about looks and image who are focused on their identity.

The laugh is on the entertainment industry. Trumpeting nitwits and thinking it’s winning. You can make bank on Gigi Hadid and Kim Kardashian, you just can’t capture people’s souls. You’ve got a tribe of nincompoops who believe image is everything who will graduate into becoming nerds and then what?

And in music, we’ve eviscerated credibility, we tell each other it doesn’t matter. That you can sell out to everybody, sacrifice your identity for the buck. Nothing could be further from the truth. Try taking a stand, saying no, that will bond a team to you that will carry you through thick and thin. We live in a flavor of the month culture, and for that we can blame the institutions run by old men, cynical baby boomers and Gen-X’ers, who not only market the songs, but write them too.

I’m sick of this aspirational b.s. Where we’re told if we’re just skinny enough, just beautiful enough, we can be happy.

And that being happy is being rich.

No, being happy is making a difference, being part of a team that is changing the world. Canvass the youngsters, the millennials, the zoned-out, and you’d be stunned to find out this is true.

Right now the number one place you want to work at is Vice. Which knows the trappings are irrelevant, and that the core is everything.

They humanized Glenn Beck, a seeming impossibility.

They illuminated prison rebellion.

And used the imagery of the web in a fresh way. It was Buzzfeed with substance. When everybody else is going for lowest common denominator, it leaves the stratosphere completely empty.

The “New York Times” keeps laying people off. And its video is so lame, high school students could do a better job.

Cable news is so self-important as to be dismissed. Come on, who are these people, who do no reporting and constantly give their opinions like we should care?

Yours,
Dr Pano Kroko Churchill

PS:

Keep looking at Vice and TheNewsCommons, and many other citizen news journalism sites because they will only get better.

And let’s join up to provide Quality Citizen Journalism for Progress and Growth as I’ve done over the years with Panos Institute and with the Voices that have helped people control the excesses of Authority in many difficult parts of the World and to this day helps us fight Corruption, Climate Change, and the Dictatorial Authorities that want to limit our Liberty.

Let’s follow now the TheNewsCommons as we built the next Citizen Journalism for our World.

Let’s do this and learn from the New News Business models that have No Ratings yet, nary a site and a steady channel but have the People power behind them. And if you’re focused on ratings, you’ve clearly missed the memo.

Times are changing…

And Vice News is everywhere. Online, on TV, it’s the outlet of choice. It’s got boots on the ground globally when every other enterprise has brought the reporters home.

This is utterly fascinating to watch. This is why we continue to live. To find those willing to do it differently who engage us, startle us, make us think.