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.
Joe Rogan Experience #725 - Graham Hancock & Randall Carlson
A three-hour Joe Rogan Experience conversation with Graham Hancock and Randall Carlson about lost civilizations, the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis and Earth's cataclysmic history.
Charlie Brooker's How to Report the News - Newswipe - BBC
A short satirical segment from Charlie Brooker's Newswipe that lampoons the formulaic conventions of television news reporting, from stock shots to filler street interviews and news-speak.
Chinese Invisibility Cloak Hoax DESTROYED!!!
Captain Disillusion debunks a viral Chinese invisibility cloak video while parodying popular educational channels.
Copyright: How It Went Wrong
CGP Grey's five-minute animated explainer on how copyright terms grew from 14 years to life plus decades.
Municipal Violations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on municipal violations.
THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments
A Gamers Nexus investigative documentary on the black market for Nvidia AI GPUs, following smugglers, middlemen, and buyers, including reporting from China.
Nuclear Weapons: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
A Last Week Tonight segment on the US nuclear arsenal and how poorly it is maintained and secured.
From the DMZ Into the Hermit Kingdom - Inside North Korea (Part 1/3)
Vice founder Shane Smith travels to North Korea, speaking with refugees in South Korea before crossing the DMZ.
Vienna's Radical Idea? Affordable Housing For All
A Bloomberg mini-documentary on how Vienna keeps housing affordable through large-scale public and social housing.
PFAS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on PFAS, the 'forever chemicals' linked to health problems.
YouTubers have to declare ads. Why doesn't anyone else?
Tom Scott examines why YouTubers must declare paid endorsements while TV, film and other media face no such rule, comparing regulations in the UK and US.
Did SARS-Cov-2 start in a Chinese lab?
Science journalist potholer54 examines the claim that SARS-CoV-2 came from a Wuhan lab, tracing the sources behind it and the weaknesses in the evidence.
60 Minutes - Luxottica. Do you know who makes your glasses?
A 60 Minutes segment on Luxottica, the company that owns most major eyewear brands and retailers and dominates the market.
Call Between Alexey Navalny and FSB Officer Konstantin Kudryavtsev [English Subtitles]
Bellingcat's publication of the recorded call in which Alexey Navalny, posing as a security aide, gets FSB officer Konstantin Kudryavtsev to describe the operation to poison him.
Я позвонил своему убийце. Он признался
Alexei Navalny phones an FSB chemical-weapons specialist, posing as a senior official, and gets him to describe the 2020 Novichok poisoning and its cover-up.
How The Auto Industry Carjacked The American Dream | Climate Town
A Climate Town video on how the auto industry reshaped American cities and culture through advertising, lobbying and campaigns like the 1939 World's Fair.
The Dark Side of Counter-Strike 2
Coffeezilla's investigation into the Counter-Strike 2 skin gambling ecosystem, covering casino sites, influencers and esports teams that profit from it.
Don't Be a Sucker
A 1945 US Army educational film that dramatizes how demagogues use prejudice and scapegoating to divide people.
Astroturf and manipulation of media messages | Sharyl Attkisson | TEDxUniversityofNevada
Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson explains how astroturf, fake grassroots campaigns funded by corporate or political interests, manipulates media messages.
Opioids II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's second Last Week Tonight segment on the opioid epidemic, covering the role of large companies in driving it.
Scientific Studies: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on how media outlets report incomplete or untrue findings as settled science.
China & Uighurs: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on the Chinese government's treatment of the Uighur people, covering the human rights abuses in Xinjiang and why they deserve attention.
Yuri Bezmenov: Psychological Warfare Subversion & Control of Western Society (Complete)
A 1983 Los Angeles lecture by KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov on how the Soviets carried out ideological subversion of target societies through propaganda.
J.K. Rowling | ContraPoints
A roughly 90-minute video essay by ContraPoints on J.K.