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You mean quality journalism like this: https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/jmkbm7/getting-wasted-on-...

"This story is over 5 years old."

I wonder when this infantile news outlet finally bites the dust.

I loved Vice for doing ridiculous fringe shit like that though. Nobody else would do it. It only went downhill when they suddenly started to pretend they’re serious now.

It went downhill when they were captured by woke college graduates in the late 2010s (similar to many left leaning news organizations)

You mean when they were bought by NewsCorp???

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/aug/17/rupert-murdoch....

This is blatant misinformation. The article you linked says Murdoch bought a 5% share seven years ago, and Murdoch isn't News Corp, and 5% is not a buyout. According to Wikipedia[0], today his share is so small they don't even list a percentile, and Soros (the Right's bogeyman, to counterbalance yours) owns 10%, with the actual majority stake split between larger, uncontroversial owners. News Corp owns 0% of Vice Media. Fake news.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_Media

fortunately right leaning news organizations headed by older people like fox and breitbart are always serious and high quality journalism

isn't vice headed by an alt right guy?

It was...but they parted ways several years ago.

It was founded only I think, but there was some beef with the other founder and he was bought out.

the Vice Guide to Travel episodes were pretty good, especially Liberia & North Korea.

The Hermit Kingdom was incredible - how lucky you have to to be to be invited to party with Kim and leave in one piece?

Simon Ostrovsky's documentation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine was great too.

This kind of article is exactly what made Vice awesome back in the day.

Or this wonderful gem from the german VICE division: https://www.vice.com/de/article/mg7yv4/fruehstueck-aus-der-s...

> HAUSGEMACHTER JOGHURT AUS LOKALER PRODUKTION

> Die Idee kam uns, als meine Freundin Cecilia und ich die probiotischen Eigenschaften der Vagina diskutierten.

Meine Güte.

I thought that article was both hilarious and informative.

Those seem like fun people to be around.

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