How is the future of independent journalists ?

John K

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We all know at this point the big media are controlling by Illuminati.
Included Youtube.
Somes independent journalists used to have Youtube channels, until they were banned
I can tell you that censorship in Youtube will continue in somes topics (conspiracy, anti-vaccitation, Rothschild, chlorine dioxide, jews and more) .
So, my question is: how is the future of independent journalists?

Youtube will not longer be the space of freedom speach. which are the alternatives?
Most of the people in this world use just Youtube for watch videos. Youtube rule the market. That's a fact.

Also, We have the "lazy factor" in the memory of humans. In general, humans are faithfull to 1 or 2 brands. Think about your toothpaste, do you change the brand of toothpaste every week ? Or you just pick one ?
This is fidelity to a brand.
Change your toothpaste brand every week demands a lot of energy to the brain.

Another example: brands of cellphones. How much time it takes to learn another interface of another brand? The brain searchs simplicity. That's why people are faithfull to just one brand in general.

So, we have the "lazy factor" in the brain... And most of people will continue choose Youtube for years. Maybe decades....

Will be no place for independent journalists...There are somes smaller websites, but they don't have a big audience like youtube.

What are your opinions folks?
 
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So, my question is: how is the future of independent journalists?
on mainstream social media platforms there is none.

free speech/anti-censorship alt-tech is the way to go: bitchute, bitslide, brand new tube, parler, gab, LBRY, etc.

the rest of your OP doesnt apply to me. i dont own a cellphone, and i use activated charcoal for toothpaste.
 

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I'm an independent journalist. In that, I decide what stories to publish or not. More importantly, the stories I make cover multiple angles and are designed to make people smarter. Plus, I have a code where I won't publish things that will needlessly upset people.

The issue of brand loyalty certainly comes into play on this topic. But as a publisher, I would argue that many people simply grew up with their Instagram account, or they grew up with their Twitter accounts. So the reality is most social media users have no idea why they see what they see in their social feeds.

I touched on the subject a little in another thread. Specifically how the average internet user thinks they are tech-savvy because they know how to use Instagram. That isn't their fault. Moreover, it isn't their fault they get fed garbage from any random clout chasing publisher.
 

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a lot of those touchy subjects are precisely what people need to hear.
Vaccines are a big story right now, so I would do an anti-vax type article. I wouldn't take a hard line on it, though.

As far as conspiracy theories go, if enough people are searching for them, I would write it. But that's too niche for what I'm trying to do. Take Vigilant Citizen, for example; this very site is essentially pinned into a box.

So it's like I was saying before. The average internet user is pinned into their Google, Apple, Twitter, or Facebook box, and most other sites are only trying to replace the box. That's contradictory to my business philosophy and goals.
 

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Vaccines are a big story right now, so I would do an anti-vax type article. I wouldn't take a hard line on it, though.

As far as conspiracy theories go, if enough people are searching for them, I would write it. But that's too niche for what I'm trying to do. Take Vigilant Citizen, for example; this very site is essentially pinned into a box.

So it's like I was saying before. The average internet user is pinned into their Google, Apple, Twitter, or Facebook box, and most other sites are only trying to replace the box. That's contradictory to my business philosophy and goals.
Really? Because I am constantly searching or alternative sources of online information. A lot of the altnews sites are a little too "fringey" and have an obvious bias, so one has to take their stance into consideration when parsing what they publish, same as with the msm. Still, if Project Veritas and Al Jazeera are the only ones with the balls to put themselves out there, I'm going to give them a listen/read.

It would be so great to find articles written like the old days: a reporter gathers acts, checks and cross-checks those facts, strings them into a coherent timeline of events and lets the reader/viewer draw their own conclusions. Ya got any suggestions on where to find such a rare and ephemeral resource?

I have about a dozen suggestions for stories, too,if you're looking for ideas. Random thoughts that I am not sure how to research on my own, since I don't have time to sift through dozens/hundreds/thousands of articles, sites, and/or videos via the interwebs. Nor do I have the urge to go out and pound the pavement myself. (Mine is a different calling.)

For example, Bolivia just had a set of elections in which the socialist successor to their previously ousted president won. How long has this country been going down this path; is it successful, in terms of increasing economic and/or political stability? Or does it foster corruption equally as well as the other forms of govt. that have been tried in the past? Where do the other nations in South America and Central America fall on the political spectrum? Info like this, basic stuff about our neighbors, should be common knowledge in the US, but it's not!

Another, more controversial story: What are the current and historic financial figures for Planned Parenthood? Do they really make most of their profits off abortion? What percentage off other services, if any? Do they receive federal or state funds on a national or local basis? When the indigent girls show up, who pays for their birth control, counseling, and procedures? Getting some hard numbers would relieve some of the emotional stigma, I think, and give people a starting point for compromise.

And this "new" story about Hunter Biden's emails has piqued my curiosity, to say the least. I wonder if we will have access to them, or if it's all just a bunch of smoke? The truth is probably somewhere in between. I wish someone in the FBI would prove themselves useful for a change and leak the damn things. We need a successor to Julian Assange and Wikileaks, that's for sure!
 

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Plus, I have a code where I won't publish things that will needlessly upset people.
Why? do you want to publish only good news?
It doesn't makes sense. People need to know the shit that is happend.
 

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Why? do you want to publish only good news?
It doesn't makes sense. People need to know the shit that is happend.
I'm trying to make profits, not play hero.

I should have been more clear in my last post though. I meant I won't publish garbage.
 

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I'm trying to make profits, not play hero.
Everybody's free to do whatever they want.

But your are not doing independent journalism. You give to readers what they want to heard in order to not "upset people". As you said.

That's the problem with journalists in general , they are afraid to "upset people" or "not make profits".
 

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Everybody's free to do whatever they want.

But your are not doing independent journalism. You give to readers what they want to heard in order to not "upset people". As you said.

That's the problem with journalists in general , they are afraid to "upset people" or "not make profits".
Idk about that. My team and I are working on reports on all our competitors. We have found that CNN for example, is extremely negative in its content. That, along with the fact that they literally need to talk 24/7, creates a perfect storm, so to speak.

The real problem with the mainstream is they are too opinionated. They can't be truthful and consistent 24/7 because it's not possible when you have to fill that much airtime. I have to make good content, or nobody will ever see it. CNN can publish whatever crap they want, and some loyal toolbag will eat it up.
 

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Really? Because I am constantly searching or alternative sources of online information. A lot of the altnews sites are a little too "fringey" and have an obvious bias, so one has to take their stance into consideration when parsing what they publish, same as with the msm. Still, if Project Veritas and Al Jazeera are the only ones with the balls to put themselves out there, I'm going to give them a listen/read.

It would be so great to find articles written like the old days: a reporter gathers acts, checks and cross-checks those facts, strings them into a coherent timeline of events and lets the reader/viewer draw their own conclusions. Ya got any suggestions on where to find such a rare and ephemeral resource?

I have about a dozen suggestions for stories, too,if you're looking for ideas. Random thoughts that I am not sure how to research on my own, since I don't have time to sift through dozens/hundreds/thousands of articles, sites, and/or videos via the interwebs. Nor do I have the urge to go out and pound the pavement myself. (Mine is a different calling.)

For example, Bolivia just had a set of elections in which the socialist successor to their previously ousted president won. How long has this country been going down this path; is it successful, in terms of increasing economic and/or political stability? Or does it foster corruption equally as well as the other forms of govt. that have been tried in the past? Where do the other nations in South America and Central America fall on the political spectrum? Info like this, basic stuff about our neighbors, should be common knowledge in the US, but it's not!

Another, more controversial story: What are the current and historic financial figures for Planned Parenthood? Do they really make most of their profits off abortion? What percentage off other services, if any? Do they receive federal or state funds on a national or local basis? When the indigent girls show up, who pays for their birth control, counseling, and procedures? Getting some hard numbers would relieve some of the emotional stigma, I think, and give people a starting point for compromise.

And this "new" story about Hunter Biden's emails has piqued my curiosity, to say the least. I wonder if we will have access to them, or if it's all just a bunch of smoke? The truth is probably somewhere in between. I wish someone in the FBI would prove themselves useful for a change and leak the damn things. We need a successor to Julian Assange and Wikileaks, that's for sure!
Al Jazeera has some pretty good writers.

I like your suggestions, the problem is I'm already behind on a lot of things. So I'll add those stories to my list, and hope to get to them within the next couple of weeks. Keyword research and formatting takes up like 90% of my time right now.

A story can be amazingly written, and super informative, but if it's not optimized for search engines, nobody will ever see it. Unless you're CNN of course, then you can just slap any old title on an article and it's ready to go.
 

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Al Jazeera has some pretty good writers.

I like your suggestions, the problem is I'm already behind on a lot of things. So I'll add those stories to my list, and hope to get to them within the next couple of weeks. Keyword research and formatting takes up like 90% of my time right now.

A story can be amazingly written, and super informative, but if it's not optimized for search engines, nobody will ever see it. Unless you're CNN of course, then you can just slap any old title on an article and it's ready to go.
Idk about that. I ignore pretty much all the crapola that pops up on search engines, because of the reasons I mentioned before (biased, repetitive.) If you have a site with verified/verifiable information, I think people like me would flock to it, and share the heck out of it on social media. Wikileaks, Project Veritas and QAnon didn't rely on SEO, they caught on through word-of-mouth (or ts digital equivalent, anyway) and they became total game changers. Even Vigilant Citizen doesn't "pop up" in a generic search, but look how many followers he has, and how important he is to us!

If you are willing to put in the work, to curate and publish useful info that people can't easily find any where else, then you could become hugely influential. That kind of influence may not be compatible with profitability, but if VC is any guide, sticking to the Truth just may be controversial enough in this day and age to sell like hotcakes! (There are ads all over this website now, and while I hope VC is able to make a living from ad sales after all this time and sweat equity, I also hope those ads remain relatively unobtrusive.) If we Conspiracy Theorists are a viable market, imagine what numbers the disenfranchised audience of the msm could generate.

Lord knows, Twitter and Facebook have folded like a deck of cards, both eschewing their responsibility as sources of news/information, while still trying to reap the rewards (the influence and the profits!) that emanate from such activity. It's so fkng two-faced, it makes me sick. "We're not journalists, so we don't have to follow the rules or maintain journalistic integrity, so we will pick and choose what information we let you see, and/or share, claim the stuff we don't like is "false," and bombard you with advertisements piled on top of each other so badly that you can't actually read the article when you click on it." Bezos and Zuckerf*cker need to be taken down a couple of pegs.

I hope you are really serious about becoming an independent journalist. I wouldn't worry about getting too fancy with the formatting, if I were you. No one would mind reading articles in paragraph form, with photos/videos/links interspersed throughout, like on these forums, for example. As long as the font is crisp, clear and consistent, and not too small (yes, we're looking at you, Q) it should be fine. Graphics are fun, but they shouldn't be the main attraction. Just give us news we can use.
 

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Idk about that. I ignore pretty much all the crapola that pops up on search engines, because of the reasons I mentioned before (biased, repetitive.) If you have a site with verified/verifiable information, I think people like me would flock to it, and share the heck out of it on social media. Wikileaks, Project Veritas and QAnon didn't rely on SEO, they caught on through word-of-mouth (or ts digital equivalent, anyway) and they became total game changers. Even Vigilant Citizen doesn't "pop up" in a generic search, but look how many followers he has, and how important he is to us!

If you are willing to put in the work, to curate and publish useful info that people can't easily find any where else, then you could become hugely influential. That kind of influence may not be compatible with profitability, but if VC is any guide, sticking to the Truth just may be controversial enough in this day and age to sell like hotcakes! (There are ads all over this website now, and while I hope VC is able to make a living from ad sales after all this time and sweat equity, I also hope those ads remain relatively unobtrusive.) If we Conspiracy Theorists are a viable market, imagine what numbers the disenfranchised audience of the msm could generate.

Lord knows, Twitter and Facebook have folded like a deck of cards, both eschewing their responsibility as sources of news/information, while still trying to reap the rewards (the influence and the profits!) that emanate from such activity. It's so fkng two-faced, it makes me sick. "We're not journalists, so we don't have to follow the rules or maintain journalistic integrity, so we will pick and choose what information we let you see, and/or share, claim the stuff we don't like is "false," and bombard you with advertisements piled on top of each other so badly that you can't actually read the article when you click on it." Bezos and Zuckerf*cker need to be taken down a couple of pegs.

I hope you are really serious about becoming an independent journalist. I wouldn't worry about getting too fancy with the formatting, if I were you. No one would mind reading articles in paragraph form, with photos/videos/links interspersed throughout, like on these forums, for example. As long as the font is crisp, clear and consistent, and not too small (yes, we're looking at you, Q) it should be fine. Graphics are fun, but they shouldn't be the main attraction. Just give us news we can use.
When I think of Project Veritas, Qanon, and Wikileaks, "hugely influential" doesn't pop into my mind. These things are nothing more than fads desperately clinging to the sensationalism that made them fads. That's the problem with social media, stuff gets hot and cold, so that's not a real strategy. Plus, according to my research, only the top 10% of content gets an organic share on social media.

On that note, I plan on blowing VC and similar sites completely out of the water as far as internet traffic. What you fail to understand is that I don't want a bunch of scrubby followers who got that way because I hooked them in with a scandal. Moreover, there's no special story that's not being told on the internet. It's pretty much all been said, so my goal is to find a way to say it all better.

Trust me; I wish you were right about not needing to be fancy. The reality is certain user metrics are going to make or break you on the internet. Of course, I'd love to be able to write out a story that gets to the point, but that's just not done on the internet. You have to give people a brief history lesson, then explain at least 300 words of context. After getting someone to spend at least X amount of time on the page, *maybe* answer the question.

I just explained what my research has shown. Performance and fanciness is an area where I can immediately beat a lot of the competition. Most importantly, though, I'm trying to future proof everything now. That means playing the long game and keeping my costs negligible. Anyway, I can't list every move I'm making, but I'll keep your strategy in mind if the time presents itself.
 
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