Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin - Dear Alternative Media
Aired: 2014-09-03
Duration: 01:47


=== Demand For Transparency (01:47) ===

[00:00:00]  Dear YouTube Alternative Media List your damn sources I am infuriated by the amount of videos I watch that are fairly informative and I think ooh I would like to follow up on that and see if they're not taking this information out of context and I find every time in the about section there are no links to all of the articles that have been screenshotted in the video I just watched.
[00:00:30]  It means I can't investigate it for myself and I can't confirm it.
[00:00:37]  If I can't confirm it, I cannot take you seriously.
[00:00:42]  I can only ever do with you like I do with the mass media and assume you're full of shit.
[00:00:49]  Posting a screen grab of an article that shows the headline you want to show doesn't help.
[00:00:56]  This is surely rule one of online journalism.
[00:01:00]  This is surely the cardinal principle.
[00:01:05]  Give everyone the information you had so they can confirm your interpretation.
[00:01:11]  Hoarding your sources is part of the old media.
[00:01:15]  The only way anything you say can become credible is if you freely give the sources that you drew your conclusions from.
[00:01:26]  To prove you are transparent and honest, give us the information.
[00:01:31]  Yes, we could all go to Google and type in the headlines and find it and then read it, but no one's gonna do that.
[00:01:38]  Clicking on a link is far easier and people are much more inclined to do that.
[00:01:43]  Therefore you will have corroborating voices and opinions.