We're all libs here Chapo. But what I like about pods like Citations Needed or Rev Left Radio is the more explicitly narrative driven content. CN is best at it, but I prefer a pod to be constantly building to some kind of theme or motif or thesis. Doore often just plays clips and then interrupts them with obvious ass takes in a smug voice every 20 seconds, and while he's not wrong, it just gets predictable after the first 10 minutes. Sometimes he pauses at weird times too instead of letting the clip finish to provide context, and it just seems so disjointed and ad-hoc. There's space for that kind of content, but it isn't going to push or educate people beyond a certain point, and his tone and pacing are going to drive a lot of people away before they give him a real chance anyway.
I normally recommend Beau of the 5th column to curious libs or politically uneducated people given his more digestable video lengths and style.
Completely disagree with your point about narratives from jimmy, Citations needed has an extremely small potential audience as they mainly appeal to college educated libs, that love overly long explanatory think pieces filled with numbers. That shit will never reach the people who need to be moved left.
Jimmy's narratives unfold over a number of episodes, he's was covering the CARES act and its consequences to a greater extent than any other outlet since may, and as far as I can tell the only youtuber to seriously critique the Biden cabinet while every other fake progressive outlet has gone back to the "republicans bad" narrative that get them views but doesn't move us anywhere.
I mean, I really could be wrong on this one. Like I said it's been a while since I've watched him seeing I was so put off by the tone and format at the time. If it's moving people left then I'm for it at the end of the day.
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We're all libs here Chapo. But what I like about pods like Citations Needed or Rev Left Radio is the more explicitly narrative driven content. CN is best at it, but I prefer a pod to be constantly building to some kind of theme or motif or thesis. Doore often just plays clips and then interrupts them with obvious ass takes in a smug voice every 20 seconds, and while he's not wrong, it just gets predictable after the first 10 minutes. Sometimes he pauses at weird times too instead of letting the clip finish to provide context, and it just seems so disjointed and ad-hoc. There's space for that kind of content, but it isn't going to push or educate people beyond a certain point, and his tone and pacing are going to drive a lot of people away before they give him a real chance anyway.
I normally recommend Beau of the 5th column to curious libs or politically uneducated people given his more digestable video lengths and style.
They are obvious takes to you.
Completely disagree with your point about narratives from jimmy, Citations needed has an extremely small potential audience as they mainly appeal to college educated libs, that love overly long explanatory think pieces filled with numbers. That shit will never reach the people who need to be moved left.
Jimmy's narratives unfold over a number of episodes, he's was covering the CARES act and its consequences to a greater extent than any other outlet since may, and as far as I can tell the only youtuber to seriously critique the Biden cabinet while every other fake progressive outlet has gone back to the "republicans bad" narrative that get them views but doesn't move us anywhere.
I mean, I really could be wrong on this one. Like I said it's been a while since I've watched him seeing I was so put off by the tone and format at the time. If it's moving people left then I'm for it at the end of the day.