It's hard to qualify much of the staff at TYT as journalists. Half the time I see them reading news from other sources and commenting on it. I don't think they have much of a budget to have reporters on the scene.
They are fucking hacks though, though I love Jimmy Dore, he cracks me up and isn't afraid to speak his mind, never just following a progressive narrative. I think your description of them as the left's Fox news is appropriate, just with a smaller reach. Cenk is the Turkish Hannity and Ana is the regressive Tomi Lahren, still would both though (Tomi/Ana that is, Chunk is all yours
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Alex Jones really is a hypocrite, and not just because of his TOS. However, there's a big difference between his tiny site compared to Youtube or Facebook.
What I really find interesting in the fallout of his banning, are the many fellow smaller government proponents calling for making Youtube and Facebook-like entities public utilities. It's pretty much imperative that a business be on one, if not both of these platforms. I lean Libertarian-ish, but not extreme where I can't see how important smart regulation is. I never really considered forcing this on a company today, but when I think of my own business, I couldn't survive without facebook, or being on Youtube and the internet in general. They are as important as electricity to my livelihood
What do you guys about making social media giants into public utilities? Even typing that feels dirty to me, but when I think back in history and how electric companies carried so much power over the populace that the Public Utility Holding Company Act needed to be created.