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THREE THINGS TO NOTE:
1. Yesterday evening, after this video was created, it was revealed that Ukraine had re-captured Lyman. Reports tell us that Ukrainian forced closed in on the city from the West and South forcing a Russian surrender. The rest of the video is still accurate, so we thought it was definitely still worth releasing, just know that the Ukrainians were successful in the effort in Lyman discussed in this video. You can read more here, as well as on basically any other news site: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/world/europe/ukraine-maps.html
2. Sorry about the audio and video quality. As you can see I recorded it at home, just becasuse of technical issues in the studio & because I was working from home most of the week with a pretty gross cold (which I wanted to recover from & avoid spreading to the rest of the team). I hope you can ignore the tech issues and just enjoy the information and graphics as normal!
3. The reason I wanted to recover so badly was because right now, as this video is released, I'm running the London Marathon. I'm still not fully better (as I write this on Saturday evening) but I am feeling better. I'm still going ahead partly because I've trained for too long not to, but also because I'm running for SRUK a charity who raise money to support people with scleroderma, a rare auto-immune disease my mum suffers from. The disease has no cure and in some instances is fatal (the 10 year survival rate is between 50 and 80%). SRUK are raising money to not only help find a cure, but also support those living with the condition - and both of those things are vital as there's no government funding going toward finding a cure in the UK. If you'd like to donate I'd really appreciate it and you can do so here: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/tldrjack
Thanks, and sorry for any disruption in this video - Jack
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It’s an entirely fair point. The titles and thumbnails are a balancing act for every video, as we want people to click the videos and learn about important topics but we also don’t want to mislead anyone.
I would slightly push back on the specific term clickbait though. To me at least, the bad kind of clickbait is when the title promises something which is either untrue or not delivered on in the video. I think at worst our more ‘clickbait’ titles may over dramatise the issue slightly (although in a way we still seem to be respectful) but the videos themselves always still deliver on the core promise of the video, as we’ve always done.
I do get why people want a clean, accurate titles on our videos. I think the whole TLDR team would prefer that too. For us though, we really think the topics were covering are important, so if we’re going to reach the 18-30 demographic we’re aiming for, we have to play the same game to get their attention as everyone’s else on YouTube is. We’re not just competing with news, we’re trying to teach people politics vs far more fun content they could watch on here.
Again, I do understand the desire for a more pure news experience, and I really do hope that people are able to understand that our actual videos haven’t changed at all. It feels very sad to me that someone’s desire to not click on a more hyperbolic thumbnail would put them off watching the full 8 minute video - that feels like a really disappointing situation for everyone
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CORRECTION:
The Northern League are, of course, Italian, not French as claimed at 2:00
Melenchon left the Socialists in 2008, not 2018 as claimed at 8:35.
Apologies for that; we thought it was worth mentioning that these were both mistakes in production, not by our writers/researchers, so don’t worry, our French writers know what they’re talking about. Anyway, apologies again, and we’ll try our best to make sure this sort of thing doesn’t happen again.
PS: some people have suggested we probably should’ve focused more on Hollande’s policy failures than his personal life. In retrospect, you guys were probably correct, but hopefully the wider point - that Hollande’s presidency has had long lasting consequences for the socialists and the French left more generally - still came through.
And as a final final thing, thanks for calling us out on it - constructive feedback always welcomed, and as an audience you guys are great at it (and remarkably well-informed)!
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CORRECTIONS:
At 6:44, we say that 'for most of the war, Russia refrained from striking civilian targets'. Of course, this isn't true: Russia has been striking civilian targets since the war began in February of last year, as we covered on this channel. What we were trying to communicate is that there was a significant uptick in Russian strikes on civilian infrastructure (bridges, railways and the electricity grid) in October of last year, when Russia changed its command after the successful Ukrainian counteroffensives in Kherson and Kharkiv, and this latest attack on Nova Kakhovka suggests a further escalation in this direction. Nonetheless, this is an error on our part, and we can only apologise - it's a sloppy mistake.
At 2:30, we say that Kherson city is 'occupied by the Ukrainians'. Again, this is just a mistake - we meant to say 'controlled', but apparently got a little confused having used the word 'occupied' in the context of its Russian occupation so many times previously.
At the end of this video, and in other videos, where we refer to Russia's "Special Military Operation" we intend the reference to be tongue in cheek. I think previously that's been pretty well understood, but we totally see that based on tone it's possible to misinterpret our intention here. To avoid any confusion going forward, we plan to refrain from using the phrase (even mockingly)
Finally, some commenters have pushed back against our suggestion that the Russians were behind this, and likened it to the NordStream pipeline attacks last year. We're not going to go into this in too much detail, but the two cases are clearly not analogous for a whole load of reasons (as we explain here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBArIp0Gy7g )
These are sloppy errors that we shouldn't be making, and we can only apologise - hopefully you still found the video informative
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CORRECTION: As many commenters have pointed out, the narrator says 'FdL' throughout the video, when it should be 'FdI'. This is clearly a mistake, and we can only apologise for it - as an explanation (not an excuse), it's because in arial font a capital 'I' looks identical to a lowercase 'l'. Nonetheless, it's entirely our bad, so apologies and we hope you still enjoyed the video!
Furthermore, there's been some pushback against the idea that the Fratelli d'Italia are far-right, as we say in the thumbnail. This is fair enough - as we mention in the second half of the video, the FdI's actual policies aren't anywhere near as extreme as some of their rhetoric. Nonetheless, they're clearly on the right of European politics, and some of their politics could be fairly described as far-right', so, while there's room for debate, we don't think the label is unequivocally unfair.
All in all, apologies for the errors - we'll endeavour to do better in the future! As a final thing, we'll be discussing all this - our errors and the question of whether or not the FdI are far right - in more detail in our fortnightly podcast the Editorial over on https://www.youtube.com/c/TLDRPodcasts, so if you want to see us apologise even more go subscribe to that
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CORRECTIONS:
There are a number of mistakes in this video:
At 0:09, the map of Schengen area doesn't include Croatia
At 0:21, we use the Icelandic flag instead of the Norwegian flag
At 1:08, the animation dates the Treaty of Rome as 2021, but the narration (correctly) states 1957
At 5:10, we use the Slovakian flag for Slovenia
These are both appallingly sloppy and unacceptably frequent - we can only apologise. If you'd like to know more about our editorial process, and what we're doing to reduce our error rate, we've made a video on it over at TLDR Podcasts here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2YICfgUET0 (specific discussion on animation errors starts at 2:35 - somewhat embarrassingly, we claim that animation-related errors have been "weeded out", when clearly that's not true). Again, we can only apologise, and hopefully you still enjoyed the video.
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We've got some pushback for the title/thumbnail of this video, so a bit of clarification: while the "red bloc" did indeed win a majority, it seems that Frederiksen has decided that the coalition is too unstable to govern. This is essentially because the other "red bloc" parties don't like the Social Democrats enough to provide reliable parliamentary support for their policies. This is why, on Wednesday morning, Frederiksen claimed that "there is no longer a majority behind the government in its current form; therefore, tomorrow I will submit the government’s resignation to the queen" (source: https://apnews.com/article/europe-legislature-denmark-government-and-politics-6051713a8bda8850afbc823718872892).
Frederiksen will stay on as caretaker PM while she tries to negotiate a new centrist coalition, which she will most likely lead as PM. In theory, Frederiksen could have stayed on without resigning, and continued to rely on other "red bloc" parties for Parliamentary support, but she apparently decided this was untenable.
Nonetheless, we appreciate that the title/thumbnail was a bit clickbaity, but hopefully this comment makes it a bit clearer.
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CORRECTIONS:
At 2:30, we used the Bulgarian flag instead of the Hungarian flag.
At 3:12, the map showing which EU countries have exceeded the deficit isn't quite right: Bulgaria and Romania should be switched
At 3:20, the labels showing the deficit of each Visegrad country are incorrectly applied
These are sloppy errors, and we can only apologise (we've also edited the vid to remove the Visegrad bit) - we hope you nonetheless enjoyed the video.
PS to regular viewers, we're aware that our error rate has ticked up a bit over the past few weeks, which is obviously disappointing given (we feel) we made pretty good progress reducing errors over the previous six months or so. We think this is down to a combination of magazine deadlines, moving office and summer holidays, which has made everything a bit chaotic, but hopefully this effect will be only temporary. This is of course an explanation, not an excuse, and we'll still try to make sure all future videos are error-free - thanks for your patience/understanding.
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NOTE: Some commenters have pushed back against our characterisation of Italy as "one of the weaker eurozone economies". To some extent, we actually agree: there's a lazy cliché that frames Italy as the "weak" EU economy and Germany as the "strong" one, even though - as commenters have pointed out - Italy has run a primary budget surplus (i.e. excluding debt interest payments) for the best part of the last three decades, and recent stress tests suggest its banking system is one of the safest in Europe. Nonetheless, Italy does still struggle from persistently low growth and a high debt burden, which is partly why Italy has historically been in favour of deeper monetary/fiscal integration than, say, Germany, and hence why Italy's opposition to the ESM is a bit of a shock. Anyway, we're planning a wider video on the Italian economy in a bit, where hopefully we'll go into all this in more detail.
PS: There's also been some discussion about our characterisation of the 2008 crash as a "bank run" amongst nonbank financial institutions - this is fair enough, and the best way to understand 2008 is still a topic of academic debate, but for a good exposition of the "bank run" theory we'd recommend "The Fed Unbound: Central Banking in a Time of Crisis" by Lev Menand (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fed-Unbound-Central-Banking-Crisis/dp/1735913707).
Thanks for watching, and we hope you enjoyed the video!
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NOTE: As some commenters have pointed out, this video is a reupload: earlier this week, we briefly uploaded the same video, but mistakenly described Tusk as President instead of Prime Minister, so we decided to correct the video and re-release it today.
PS: Some commenters have also complained about the fact that we didn't provide axes on the graph at 0:55. This is entirely fair, and we should've put axes on the graph, so apologies for that. For those interested, the original graph is here: https://twitter.com/RafalMundry/status/1716905927016919209/photo/1, and the y-axis should run from 280,000 up to 440,000. Hope that clears things up, and hope you nonetheless enjoy the video!
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