Comments by "voteZDLR" (@voteZDLR) on "Patton Oswalt: Joke Theft Is No Laughing Matter (HBO)" video.

  1. VICE is clearly running a program that is tattoo-friendly, hipster-friendly, cigarette, drugs and alcohol friendly... like it's just the coolest damn News network there is. They allow cursing, etc. It just makes their work (when they're at their best) more appealing to people I think. More refreshing than getting watered down, PG-rated news broadcasting with totally white bread and/or Uncle Tom newscasters and commercials in between. No, VICE says forget the traditional method, we're going to give people something more hard hitting and real. Unfortunately the more commercial VICE gets the more I distrust them.
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  2. LOL thank you
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  3. I've seen it. xD And yeah that one was pretty great. There's quite a few they've done on international cannibals IIRC. I've seen a large number of things they've done since I first discovered them on the ... relatively bad quality footage with the guy who started Vice, Shaun Smith, basically finding a way into North Korea and actually managing to smuggle footage. That took serious, serious balls to do. If they had caught him doing that... we may not even have VICE as we do have it today. That's kind of what I mean about the trajectory they seem to be going. It really IS beginning to show some serious left-leaning bullshit, and you know who I blame for that? Bill Maher. He's simultaneously the reason we got VICE News in the capacity we now have it on HBO, but also the reason it's gotten so... much more biased in the favor of the left. I agree with every word of what you said.
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  4. I still think it's better than anything else docu-news wise. But the underlying biases are more apparent than ever before. I actually didn't know Rupert Murdoch bought them, but that explains a lot even though traditionally I always thought he was more conservative leaning.
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