Post Game May 23, 2018

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Cenk Uygur & Ana Kasparian talk about Alison Hartson’s recent fundraiser and their journalistic identities.

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  1. Anderson Cooper is amazing, but he like all of CNN is bought. TYT is only real, TYT tries hard to deliver the truth to the people.

    You should be proud.

  2. No, please don’t do that. You aren’t journalists.
    I’m not going to spend time here describing the difference between your way of looking through news and the way a journalist has to seek out his sources, process information and build the full picture on field, because I don’t think you are stupid enough to not know that.
    Understand that the lack of media literacy you lament (and very rightly so) has everything to do with news organisations snipping aggressively on the journalism front and investing more time, money, energy into talking heads. When I was a kid (in India) there was one government funded channel that gave news – 70 to 80 % of that news was focused on relevant video footage, numbers, timelines and statistics. That evolved over the years into this reality TV theater format and I have seen people’s insistence on evidence correlate a 100 % to this change of format.
    And it permeates every single kind of news and situation. At Standing Rock, MSM’s coverage was 90 % straightup stenography for local police, politicians and even large shareholders of Energy Transfer Partners (WaPo). Back in the day, local tv news wouldn’t have gotten away with claiming vandalism on part of protesters but not providing video evidence through a journalist when the event is literally happening within the same state they are broadcasting from. One would expect a little more consciousness of this phenomenon from someone teaching journalism courses (albeit part time).
    You are good at what you do – commentary and media that gives a voice to hundreds of grassroots progressives, activists and politicians at time when no other media would. Please don’t diminish that by blurring the line between journalism, activism and opinion. And help good journalism where you can by giving it a platform.

  3. They are journalists. Not on the ground…but can you imagine how much time they spend sifting through everything they talk about that day and how many hours they spend in production meetings? Sometimes, which they will admit (On-Air) they get something wrong and correct it. That is journalism.

  4. They’re journalists, just not investigative journalists. Journalism is a whole field, not one aspect.

    The analysis and research that goes into TYT is part of journalism. It’s nonsense to suggest otherwise.

  5. Agree with the previous posts here. Cenk and Ana are hosts of a show and not actual journalists. And they don’t do that much research either and it shows on a multitude of topics (primarily international news).

    On a different note, I wish TYT had covered the issue of American citizens traveling to Ireland to campaign on the streets and interfere with their referendum:

    https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/23/europe/ireland-abortion-referendum-american-campaigners-intl/index.html

  6. Please that the Members Only banner of these Post Games until they are really Members Only again.
    Cenk & Ana have a research team of journalists called TYT Investigates but they’re almost never mentioned or highlighted. The only place a link to the articles they write can be found is in Rebel HQ, why is that?
    If Cenk & Ana want to call themselves journalists cuz they do additional research & don’t just read the news I’m fine with that, but I’d like them to do more research though. There are times, like with a few of the drug stories they’ve covered this week, where their ignorance shines through.
    Please do better TYT, we need you.

  7. Journalists are out in the field researching stories. Reading an article in the Guardian and following that up with a google search does not make a journalist. No matter how many articles you read in your cross-check, those are articles written by other people (like, real journalists) and therefore second-degree separation. The host who has read 10 articles in preparation for a story and the host who has only read one article… are the same thing: an on-air host.

    Nomiki Konst is a journalist. Ana Kasparian is a host.

    Just saying.

    I’m a total TYT fan and have enormous gratitude for the work you do. Thank god we have Cenk and Ana and the other great hosts. And, thank god we have Nomiki and Ryan Grim and the other journalists.

    Keeping it real.

  10. I think you guys are kinda like hosts, but also journalist. I mean can’t you be both? Jim sterling used to be a journalist, but as his channel exploded he became a host and his research team are the journalist. I mean if things get bigger and more difficult, you too may end up being mere hosts reporting on the great journalism your team does. But who knows, i certainly don’t know how you people do anything you do. But just keep doing it correctly and accurately. Aslo why is it aggressive progressives is never up online on the same day it airs? it always up the next day <_<

      1. We’re lucky if its the next day with Old School. I’m not complaining too much but Old School is a great Friday video but unfortunately its not always uploaded.

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