In a recent interview, YouTube's CEO admitted that their algorithms are pushing corporate news
instead of independent media. No surprise here. Okay. Now this is, this is called YouTube. Okay.
It's not called corporate media tube, but it's become corporate media tube. Let me show you how
it is. I know you've looked at this. When we do a segment here, all, every segment behind us is
MSNBC, CNN, MSNBC, CNN. Why? Because they're paying YouTube so darn much money, it's generating
advertising revenue for them, and they're paying money. They're advertising and they're saying,
look, if you'll put us up there and promote us and push us, we'll spend more money. This is a really
ugly story because they've made, you know, the test right now is YouTube is simply broadcast TV.
Yeah. Isn't it?
It really is, especially with their, you know, new, new streaming service and, and
the premium memberships. But, you know, Susan Wojcicki, the, the CEO.
What a dope, by the way. Of, of, of YouTube actually admitted this. I mean,
that's the part people have to understand. She did literally admit during a recent conference,
you know, yes, we're pushing corporate media sources because she says, you know, they're
more reliable. We don't want to push some yahoo down there who's doing videos from his basement.
Yeah, that's the talking point, isn't it? Yeah, and that's, she said from the
basement. That, that old internet troll This, news alert, this is not a basement. Okay.
Right. You know, so, so the point, the point being
is that corporate media and we've, we talked about this for years. It was just a matter of time till
corporate media, everybody starts cutting their cable. Okay. They're cutting their cable left and
right. And they're saying, well, gee, I can go to YouTube, and I can get some, my information there.
But now the information, according to this new, this management woman who says,
this is what I'm going to do. She's just giving you corporate media. It's all CNN,
NBC, ABC, CBS, it's all corporate media because they're paying them so darn much money to do it.
Yeah. And it's really disappointing because you have people who doing these channels on YouTube,
these news channels, where they actually do by the way, go out and do real reporting.
They're on the ground. They're talking to people. They're doing the FOIA requests and
doing videos on the results of that. These are actual journalists and they're getting punished
because they don't have the money that corporate media has. And corporate media has now just taken
over YouTube. And they're letting them. You know what I thought of when they said
that they're just not getting legitimate news stories, we have to go to corporate media to
do that. I couldn't get, I couldn't get out of my head the, the, the, the Cuomo story. Chris Cuomo,
where they do a set, it it's all staged. Chris Cuomo is coming out of his cellar now after
fighting COVID. The rest of the story is, he had come out of a cellar a week and a half before.
And it was just staged, exactly what CNN wanted to do. But they're saying, oh, look,
the reason other stuff isn't credible is because they're shooting it down in their basement.
And they're just not credible reporters. I, I, this, this woman is just so far out of reality
with this. Yeah.
And I think it's going to start hurting. There's, there's going to be some
serious competition. I got a bit of, I got about a minute. Tell me, don't you see that happening?
Somebody is going to move into the space. Right. Absolutely. We're already seeing,
you know, some content creators moving over to Twitch, which is, you know, an equally popular
platform at this point. And there's lots of talk of people saying, why don't we start our own? And
I always kind of laugh at that because I say, listen, I've been a part of multiple groups.
And we have tried that, but y'all weren't there to support it. But there is people,
there are groups that are, that are saying, we've got to move. We have to do something. But,
but independent media is dying in the meantime. I think Twitch is a, is a threat. When people
start understanding that this woman, the CEO for, you know, for YouTube is shoving this
down everybody's throat. You, you've cut your cable. Okay. You've cut your cable, but we're
still not going to let you get away. Because we're going to have that same cable stuff on,
on YouTube. It's it's, it's really kind of a train wreck, possibility. Farron Cousins,
thank you for joining me. Thank you.