If you don't know me, I'm Seth, also known as 7, also known as your...
Welcome to yet another episode of Amigo Gringo. Today's going to be a bit different
because I'm going to do something many YouTubers do but I hardly ever do.
I'm going to comment. Why am I doing this? Because I'm irritated...
...with some videos which have been popping up on YouTube, especially one by Felipe Neto.
Remember the Wall Street Journal, which practically declared war on digital influencers?
The newspaper is so desperate, because their earnings are falling, their subscriptions are falling
Nobody reads that shit anymore.
that they decided they're coming after YouTubers and YouTube with everything in their arsenal.
If you don't know what's happening, it's more or less the following.
The Wall Street Journal published an article
saying that commercials by major brands
were appearing together with hateful videos.
When the brands found this out, many of them pulled their ads from YouTube,
YouTube lost money, and we creators also did because many of us make money from the commercials.
And why am I irritated? It's not fair to say it's just Felipe Neto.
It's not just him. It's a general lack of ethics when people insult or curse out people or businesses.
Folks, I'm a journalist; I was a journalist for 15 years before becoming a YouTuber,
and I still work at it, principally for The New York Times.
In other words, I work for new media and traditional media.
And that gives me a perspective that's a bit different.
I believe in journalistic ethics. I believe that if you are going to criticize someone, or curse someone out,
you need to know that that is true. At least you should have evidence. At VERY least you should have tried to.
Now, listen to the best part. The Wall Street Journal is such a bunch of liars, and so manipulative
that the article they did showed false screenshots. Videos that weren't showing ads because YouTube
had done its job and demonetized the videos, the Wall Street Journal showed them as if they had commercials.
They Photoshopped the ads on hate videos. That's the Wall Street Journal.
Felipe Neto, what a good actor! Very dramatic! I liked that.
Just one problem: that information is false.
Let's see why Felipe Neto really should have known that.
What proof was Felipe Neto using?
We know, because he showed us.
You see? He got it from an American channel called DramaAlert. If you watch the whole video, you'll see
that DramaAlert got it from h3h3, which is a big American channel.
So Felipe Neto learned from one channel that had learned from another channel.
Huh. Does that sound reliable?
It does not. Look what happened. I really respect h3h3 for having done this.
When they discovered the Photoshop thing was wrong, they took that video of the channel.
And of course, once they took it off, Felipe Neto did as well. Not.
That Felipe Neto video is still on the channel and giving false information.
So you say to me - "But he didn't know! That happened later! He was busy making other videos!
Just one problem with that. h3h3 took the video off their channel BEFORE Felipe Neto posted his.
So we already knew it was a lie
And Felipe Neto still posted it.
To know that you just need Google. And Google owns YouTube, I think everyone knows what you can use it for.
Furthermore, the Wall Street Journal also published a release explaining what had happened
and how the images aren't Photoshopped.
At the very least, if you're going to accuse someone of something,
in journalism, you have to give them a chance to respond.
That's why I wrote to Felipe Neto to see whether he wanted to speak in this video.
But he's really busy and his channel is much bigger than mine. But he could comment below.
I'd like to see what he says.
I think he made an honest mistake but it's an error that shows a problem with YouTube.
Look, I love being a YouTuber.
But I love it. I love speaking to Brazil - for those who don't know I'm living in New York.
I love speaking with Brazilians, I do my channel in Portuguese because I like the language,
and it's given me a great opportunity to share my city and my culture with you all.
I love YouTube. But I also love traditional media. And I see this rivalry between big newspapers and YouTube...
big media and YouTube. OK, there are a lot of things you could criticize traditional media about, obviously.
Especially in Brazil, but even here. The NY Times and Wall Street Journal are not perfect.
YouTubers need traditional media. Why? Because where does news come from?
What YouTuber has a 1000-person editorial staff like the New York Times all over the world
Spending the whole day reporting, going to boring Congressional debates,
accompanying soldiers in Syria, investigating sexism in India, for example.
We don't have that capacity. We don't have the money to do that yet.
The NYT, the WSJ and many other newspapers have money, and the people that work for them are intelligent
Not all of them, there's always a fricking idiot here and there.
Possibly the most important thing (about journalism) is not getting things wrong.
You research until you're sure what you say is the truth.
How do I know? Because even in my travel articles - which, frankly, are not that important,
though that's what I've done in the seven years since I've been back from Brazil.
But we are scared - truly scared - to make an error.
You know why? Because if you get one letter wrong in the last name of someone you met in Hungary
where all names are S-Z-C-S-Z-C-Z-Z-S-S, if you mix up an s and a z, you're in for it.
I know, because it happened. I made the same error three times in an article about Hungary.
And I got in trouble.
What Felipe Neto said is that the Wall Street Journal is scared. The Wall Street Journal is scared,
the traditional media is scared, that's true. They are innovating, they're trying to learn things from YouTube
and other digital companies. But what is YouTube trying to learn from The New York Times?
From the Wall Street Journal? What?
Because there are a lot of things to learn. For example, that ethic, that responsibility to only speak badly
about someone if you have some proof.
That's it! Thanks for listening - share the video if you liked it, write a comment, I want to see what you think.
Like the video, and subscribe to the channel.
Here are our social media.
I may older than you, but I do know how to use Instagram and Snapchat.
Bye!


For more infomation >> 'Creepyland' EP is OUT NOW! - Duration: 3:13.
For more infomation >> TOP 5 Lidé s nejpodivnějšími úchylkami a závislostmi - Duration: 10:03. 





For more infomation >> САМЫЕ ПЕРВЫЕ РУССКИЕ РЭПЕРЫ 1987 -1990 гг. Эволюция Русского Рэпа [Выпуск 2. Влад Валов] - Duration: 10:48. 
For more infomation >> Cười không nhặt được mồm ║ Những pha chơi ngu hài hước bá đạo nhất - P4 - Duration: 10:05. 

For more infomation >> Pretty Little Liars 7x11 Sneak Peek 5 "Playtime" (SUB ITA) - Duration: 1:25. 

Không có nhận xét nào:
Đăng nhận xét