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Raftergirl

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9. It's entertainment, not news. Of course, YouTube content creators are only concerned with the money

Sat Jul 11, 2026, 10:06 AM

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they can make by getting subscribers and the numbers of views. That’s how they make money. Which, of course is their sole goal.

It’s all content creators on YouTube, not just “progressive” content creators.

If you want real news, read a newspaper, or mags like The Atlantic or The New Yorker, etc., which have real serious journalist writing for them.

The amount of posts with crap from YouTube channels just on this site is disturbing, imo.

And stop using the term main stream media, which the right used to tar and feather journalism, and which the left has now happily jumped on that bandwagon, too.

That’s how they got so many people to watch Fox News when they brandished everything else, at the time, Main Street Media. Now Fox is considered that so they turned to the news outlets that are even worse propagandist.

The stupid on both sides is scary and reflects, what I consider, mass gullibility by a majority of the people who have the attention span of gnats.

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