Comments by "BaltimoreAndOhioRR" (@BaltimoreAndOhioRR) on "Trump Decries "Witch Hunt" Investigations and Speculations" video.

  1. +19GerMan88 Dont count your chickens before they hatch. There is a huge majority of the population who ONLY get their political news from seeing CNN playing 24/7 in airports, bars, hospitals, and other various waiting rooms across the country. Or by the headlines and push notifications by the MSM they passively see on their phones & tablets. Contrary to what you believe, the battle has not been won.
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  2. +goklip1 Look, I'm on the same side as you guys, thats why I watch these videos regularly! But I think many of you have it wrong. Or are at least overly optimistic. Yes, maybe everyone IN YOUR CIRCLE of friends stopped watching tv and gets all their news from alt-right YouTube channels. I understand the rise of those channels, particularly Styx's, and the losing popularity of MSM. But where I'm talking about the entire population, you're only talking about people already predisposed to follow political news (and who already lean right/libertarian) My point is, Styx's videos average around 20-40k views, with only a few getting over 50k (after a few months). CNN alone gets way more exposure than that every day. It plays 24/7 in many government and private institutions where bored people watch it. Many of these people NEVER watch political news and dont care about politics. This is the ONLY political "news" they ever see. They are being influenced even if not actively watching but just listening. And that's just CNN. There are also other leftist, lying "news" stations that lots of people still watch, such as MSNBC and basically all the rest except Fox. I would love to see the fall of CNN and those other stations - but the truth is, they are not TRYING to compete on the internet. I cant think of the best way to try to explain my points (I'm not as gifted as Styx haha), but I get the impression that you and a few other commenters think, to use your words, " the [ONLY] demographic that gets their news from the MSM is getting old and are dying off" - notice I added the word "only". Sure, the old people are dying off, but they are only one segment. There are other segments which still far outnumber "old people who watch MSM" and also far outnumber "alt-right news YT watchers" which are the casual news viewers and politically indifferent people. These people are still heavily (and solely) influenced by mainstream television news and probably will be, unless some major shakeups or extraordinary events happen, for a long time. Basically, instead of the "alt-media" catching up to the MSM as many like you are claiming, the more realistic approach is that the alt-media has just entered the race, or taken it's first stride. I hope I am wrong and just being pessimistic, and you guys are right, and can come back in a year and prove how blind I am. I just dont think so. There are too many stupid, or just indifferent, people in this world :-(
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  3. +goklip Thats because CNN is not a YouTube channel duhhhh....They are a world wide "News" syndicate that is watched on television all over the place WAAAAY more than each of Styx's 30,000 video views, that just happens to also post to a YT channel. Yes, they are Liberal/Progressive/Democrat Party HACKS, but, at least be realistic in your criticism of them. Dont keep telling people no one watches them and we have nothing to worry about. A LOT of people watch CNN and are still influenced by what they say. A LOT more than watch Styx.....
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  4. 19GerMan88 True :-)
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