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Vice has been an absolute garbage news outlet for like the past 5 years. Post their old stuff, not this nonsense. https://youtu.be/QO3-AAVTeDA https://youtu.be

Vice has been an absolute garbage news outlet for like the past 5 years. Post their old stuff, not this nonsense. https://youtu.be/QO3-AAVTeDA https://youtu.be/QO3-AAVTeDA

mlang23 6y ago
You mean quality journalism like this: https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/jmkbm7/getting-wasted-on-cum-cocktails https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/jmkbm7/getting-wasted-on-... "This story is over 5 years old." I wonder when this infantile news outlet finally bites the dust.
- holler 6y ago
  the Vice Guide to Travel episodes were pretty good, especially Liberia & North Korea.
  - secondcoming 6y ago
    Simon Ostrovsky's documentation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine was great too.
  - postsantum 6y ago
    The Hermit Kingdom was incredible - how lucky you have to to be to be invited to party with Kim and leave in one piece?
- mlang23 6y ago
  Or this wonderful gem from the german VICE division: https://www.vice.com/de/article/mg7yv4/fruehstueck-aus-der-scheide-222 https://www.vice.com/de/article/mg7yv4/fruehstueck-aus-der-s...
  - tpush 6y ago
    I thought that article was both hilarious and informative.
  - sebmellen 6y ago
    > HAUSGEMACHTER JOGHURT AUS LOKALER PRODUKTION > Die Idee kam uns, als meine Freundin Cecilia und ich die probiotischen Eigenschaften der Vagina diskutierten. Meine Güte.
  - orbifold 6y ago
    Those seem like fun people to be around.
- read_if_gay_ 6y ago
  I loved Vice for doing ridiculous fringe shit like that though. Nobody else would do it. It only went downhill when they suddenly started to pretend they’re serious now.
  - stagehn 6y ago
    It went downhill when they were captured by woke college graduates in the late 2010s (similar to many left leaning news organizations)
    - k___ 6y ago
      You mean when they were bought by NewsCorp??? https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/aug/17/rupert-murdoch-vice-magazine-stake#:~:text=7%20years%20old-,Rupert%20Murdoch%20firm%20dips%20into%20hipsters'%20bible,%2470m%20stake%20in%20Vice&text=Vice%20Media%2C%20the%20multi%2Dplatform,Rupert%20Murdoch's%2021st%20Century%20Fox https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/aug/17/rupert-murdoch....
      - notmurdoch 6y ago
        This is blatant misinformation. The article you linked says Murdoch bought a 5% share seven years ago, and Murdoch isn't News Corp, and 5% is not a buyout. According to Wikipedia[0], today his share is so small they don't even list a percentile, and Soros (the Right's bogeyman, to counterbalance yours) owns 10%, with the actual majority stake split between larger, uncontroversial owners. News Corp owns 0% of Vice Media. Fake news. 0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_Media https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_Media
    - gameswithgo 6y ago
      fortunately right leaning news organizations headed by older people like fox and breitbart are always serious and high quality journalism
    - yters 6y ago
      isn't vice headed by an alt right guy?
- golergka 6y ago
  This kind of article is exactly what made Vice awesome back in the day.
redwood 6y ago
Doesn't help that their founder is a white supremicist
- jackric 6y ago
  Gavin McInnes? He hasn't been involved for 12 years how would that affect today's quality of writing? Or unless you're just trying to crowbar in a signal of your virtue?
  - geofft 6y ago
    It's relevant specifically because old Vice was more influenced by him than it is today, and the claim is that Vice was better in the past.
    - jackric 6y ago
      "Doesn't help that their founder is a white supremicist" If this person thinks the writing was better in the past, they're unlikely to call the departing influence a "white supremicist".
  - mercurysmessage 6y ago
    "Or unless you're just trying to crowbar in a signal of your virtue?" What is the point of saying this? White supremacists are bad, why do you take issue with someone saying that?
    - jackric 6y ago
      Because it looks like using poor logic as a hook to express a rewardable ingroup opinion, and not anything interesting about why the writing quality has declined. White supremacists are bad, and wrong.
      - mercurysmessage 6y ago
        What rewardable ingroup opinion? What ingroup? Every single person with a head on their shoulders should be against white supremacism. Your reply reads the same as every reply from a far right peron. Calling everything "virtue signalling" as if people can't care about each other. I think OP's point was that the writing was never great, I'm not sure what Mcinness's relation to Vice would be now.
jp555 6y ago
When I see "VICE" it triggers a kind of synesthesia and I smell garbage. How far things have come from when I used to spend part of my weekend hunting for a copy of their free magazine in the shops along Queen St West...

Vice has been an absolute garbage news outlet for like the past 5 years. Post their old stuff, not this nonsense. https://youtu.be/QO3-AAVTeDA https://youtu.be/QO3-AAVTeDA

mlang23 6y ago

You mean quality journalism like this: https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/jmkbm7/getting-wasted-on-cum-cocktails https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/jmkbm7/getting-wasted-on-... "This story is over 5 years old." I wonder when this infantile news outlet finally bites the dust.

holler 6y ago
the Vice Guide to Travel episodes were pretty good, especially Liberia & North Korea.
- secondcoming 6y ago
  Simon Ostrovsky's documentation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine was great too.
- postsantum 6y ago
  The Hermit Kingdom was incredible - how lucky you have to to be to be invited to party with Kim and leave in one piece?
mlang23 6y ago
Or this wonderful gem from the german VICE division: https://www.vice.com/de/article/mg7yv4/fruehstueck-aus-der-scheide-222 https://www.vice.com/de/article/mg7yv4/fruehstueck-aus-der-s...
- tpush 6y ago
  I thought that article was both hilarious and informative.
- sebmellen 6y ago
  > HAUSGEMACHTER JOGHURT AUS LOKALER PRODUKTION > Die Idee kam uns, als meine Freundin Cecilia und ich die probiotischen Eigenschaften der Vagina diskutierten. Meine Güte.
- orbifold 6y ago
  Those seem like fun people to be around.
read_if_gay_ 6y ago
I loved Vice for doing ridiculous fringe shit like that though. Nobody else would do it. It only went downhill when they suddenly started to pretend they’re serious now.
- stagehn 6y ago
  It went downhill when they were captured by woke college graduates in the late 2010s (similar to many left leaning news organizations)
  - k___ 6y ago
    You mean when they were bought by NewsCorp??? https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/aug/17/rupert-murdoch-vice-magazine-stake#:~:text=7%20years%20old-,Rupert%20Murdoch%20firm%20dips%20into%20hipsters'%20bible,%2470m%20stake%20in%20Vice&text=Vice%20Media%2C%20the%20multi%2Dplatform,Rupert%20Murdoch's%2021st%20Century%20Fox https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/aug/17/rupert-murdoch....
    - notmurdoch 6y ago
      This is blatant misinformation. The article you linked says Murdoch bought a 5% share seven years ago, and Murdoch isn't News Corp, and 5% is not a buyout. According to Wikipedia[0], today his share is so small they don't even list a percentile, and Soros (the Right's bogeyman, to counterbalance yours) owns 10%, with the actual majority stake split between larger, uncontroversial owners. News Corp owns 0% of Vice Media. Fake news. 0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_Media https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_Media
  - gameswithgo 6y ago
    fortunately right leaning news organizations headed by older people like fox and breitbart are always serious and high quality journalism
  - yters 6y ago
    isn't vice headed by an alt right guy?
golergka 6y ago
This kind of article is exactly what made Vice awesome back in the day.

redwood 6y ago

Doesn't help that their founder is a white supremicist

jackric 6y ago
Gavin McInnes? He hasn't been involved for 12 years how would that affect today's quality of writing? Or unless you're just trying to crowbar in a signal of your virtue?
- geofft 6y ago
  It's relevant specifically because old Vice was more influenced by him than it is today, and the claim is that Vice was better in the past.
  - jackric 6y ago
    "Doesn't help that their founder is a white supremicist" If this person thinks the writing was better in the past, they're unlikely to call the departing influence a "white supremicist".
- mercurysmessage 6y ago
  "Or unless you're just trying to crowbar in a signal of your virtue?" What is the point of saying this? White supremacists are bad, why do you take issue with someone saying that?
  - jackric 6y ago
    Because it looks like using poor logic as a hook to express a rewardable ingroup opinion, and not anything interesting about why the writing quality has declined. White supremacists are bad, and wrong.
    - mercurysmessage 6y ago
      What rewardable ingroup opinion? What ingroup? Every single person with a head on their shoulders should be against white supremacism. Your reply reads the same as every reply from a far right peron. Calling everything "virtue signalling" as if people can't care about each other. I think OP's point was that the writing was never great, I'm not sure what Mcinness's relation to Vice would be now.

jp555 6y ago

When I see "VICE" it triggers a kind of synesthesia and I smell garbage. How far things have come from when I used to spend part of my weekend hunting for a copy of their free magazine in the shops along Queen St West...