https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/andrew-callaghan-channel-5-documentary-hbo-1235370985
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Yeah sure bud.
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Andrew Callaghan is the 2nd coming of Hunter S. Thompson and you better put some fricking respect on his name.
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Office, look at the camera style humor, during a rap concert is Hunter S. Thompson now?
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getting white people to say the N word all over America on camera is Thompson level
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good journo =/= Thompson
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The guy was sent by rolling stone to cover the Fall of Saigon and didn't manage to file even a single story, just holed up in a hotel room and got plastered. Kinda based, but not what you'd call good journ*lism.
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I've changed my mind, he's a great journ*list
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Career goals
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Early Thompson had some real meat to his stories, like his Hells Angels book
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Thompson's gonzo journ*lism spawn was always just Jerry Springer for hipsters who want to tell themselves they're not using poors to entertain themselves.
I'll give him credit because he probably got laid a lot with the cute story about getting beat up for standing up for a woman, but he probably didn't end up doing shit for her and really deserved to get grizzly manned by bikers.
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Agreed, and it's actually a really good comparison. Both really entertaining people, one in written form one in video but that doesn't matter much here. They both don't really even try to portray their subjects impartially or objectively, they go for what people will find strange and interesting and feel free to dramaticize, through writing in Thompson's case and editing in Callaghan's. Good for drama but yeah both shitty journos
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define journo
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Someone who reports on what's going on while remaining as neutral and unbiased an observer as possible, in the interest of informing people - importantly, not with a focus on entertaining or persuading them. Could be through writing a book, writing articles, making videos, etc.
If the author/filmmaker doesn't remain neutral, at least in their presentation, they're just making a movie, novel, propaganda, an argumentative essay, etcetera. Which is fine - they're totally allowed to try to entertain people or convince people of a viewpoint thru their work, duh. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that if they don't try to pretend that's not what it is! Just makes em not a journo in my eyes
To be sure, the reality is that ppl are forced to entertain at least somewhat to make money nowadays, so I get it'll forever be almost impossible to find a "true" journo as I've defined it. But we could be a heck of a lot closer, the field is collectively as farrrrrrrrr away from that ideal as it could be rn. And you can always be entertaining without being biased, it just takes more work and a checked ego to place your work above yourself
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you are defining a reporter
reporter, journo, anchor, pundit all are different
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Ok, then if journos are by definition biased there literally cannot be a good journo, theyre all scum. They can be entertaining but should be looked at as entertainers, not anything of actual value when it comes to "the truth." Reporters are cool tho
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journ*lists do stories, reporters make reports. people hate journ*lists not because of low standard shoddy work but because it makes their fee-fees hurt. people don't hate reporters yet because they don't even read them
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Literal who ironic hipster failed comedian documentarian.
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I'm more interested in the second coming of Hunter S. Biden, if you know what I mean.
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This website is getting fricking embarrassing.
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I like him. He reminds me a bit of Louis Theroux before he got too judgemental to actually get his subjects to open up
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Theroux before going more woke used to show his subjects in a positive or neutral light, at least in moments, even if he disagrees with them. Thinking of the WBC one here when I say that, it's been a while but I remember that including at least some humanizing moments, which to me showed that he wasn't trying to create propaganda he was actually trying to do good journ*lism. It made the parts where he showed them being homophobic and whatever feel more real and less cartoon villainy, so it makes the whole piece more impactful.
Channel 4 is edited purely around Callaghan's politics. He'll include a positive/normal/less weird interaction with someone he agrees with, but only negative/weird/cringe interactions with people he disagrees with.
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You can tell how his politics have changed since starting the channel too, as he's gotten more popular in mainstream left leaning media he tries not to offend the people he's made friends with.
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I think he's just let "the only good journo" go to his head a little bit. Now he acts like he has some sort of responsibility for what he records or something and there's been a corresponding quality dip.
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it had to be the eventual upshift. 'people saying things they shouldn't' gets stale with time and you have to graduate into subject studies and meaningful deep dives. he is doing what vice should've been doing
yes he edits and rearranges clips to curate the tone. you've to be braindead like herzog to play the film aimlessly drifting. it's the internet age and edits have to be CRISP
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Yeah I think that's probably a fair assessment. My favourite Theroux documentary is the one where he goes to a prepper/conspiracy nut enclave on some mountain in Wyoming or something. Pretty much everyone came across as a bit nutty but basically good people who just wanted to get away from society. Except the leader dude, he was clearly a grifter
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Oh no did the woke mind virus get Louis too? I loved his docs from like 20 years ago.
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when you witness conspiracy nuts like trump get mainstream instead of being subjects of obscure documentaries, there's no choice but to go woke
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Same!
I heard his doc on alt right guys involved him getting angry at like Nick Fuentes/Baked Alaska and bitching at them or something. If anyone wants to chime in that actually watched it plz confirm if that's a mischaracterization or not, I just can't be fricked to find out myself
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Alex Jones.
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Is an r-slur, yes
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Alex is a hero and his intellect is unmatched. He is a literal genius. Clearly you haven't watched much infowars and are just basing your opinion on the word of r-slurs Alex's mind is like a razor that slices through the deception of the NWO
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I sincerely hope this is ironic
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The guy monologues for three hours every day while diving into a variety of topics and delivering cutting insight with minimal notes. And he's been doing it consistently for 20 years. It's darn near superhuman. Nobody else is even close.
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:marseymanysuchcases
Anyways, this is a decent bit but I think you should lean into the satanic angle thing because it's still a little inauthentic.
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https://twitter.com/marlonvids/status/1480668336795099140?lang=en .
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Help me I'm r-slurred. What's the size limit for webms?
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I don't think there's a size limit unless they recently added it... ppl were uploading movies lol
I think it's got to do with the encoding used, I've had it happen with webms from 4chan. Still not sure on the exact cause. I ended up just uploading mine to streamable and posting that, so that's an option
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based, TY king
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Links broken
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Tim and Eric are the producers. This is gonna be some interesting stuff
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I just
realized those were teeth 
and not lips
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Heidecker is a massive libtard cute twink, this will probably suck
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Callaghan is also a massive libtard cute twink. It's clear whenever you hear him speak and in how he edits his vids. He's more down to earth, does a better job than T&E of not soying out at stuff, and at least interacts with people outside his bubble so I commend him for that. If every lib was like him I'd like them more.
Anyway, I doubt you'll notice a difference if you like existing Channel 4 vids
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why do you think a rightoid would make a jan 6 docu when it was probably one of their most embarrassing phase
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On Cinema is kino
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He's a little wiggery for my tastes. And clearly goes to events and only puts the weirdos he runs into in the final cut, so that's pretty dishonest. It'd be like running a piece on rdrama and portraying all of us by focusing on idk Belial, before xe was banned. Entertaining for sure tho
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It’s been more interesting when he goes to protests and some political
events, but when he goes to weirdo stuff he’s gonna show the weirdos.
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Exentrics are attracted to cameras
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Totally. That's literally the only problem I have with him: people acting like he's something he's not.
You shouldn't use a Channel 4 video to judge reality, but dumb zoomers that never go anywhere clearly do so
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He's showing the real America that other journos don't want us to see
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Which is the inevitable path of infotainment mixing with the plebs. There's probably some kind of line somewhere (not sure where) where you know people take you seriously and may have some responsibility for what you put out - but that line can be decided by wingcuck r*dditors arguing about Joe Rogan. Whatever upgraded phase of that stuff Jon Stewart and Glenn Beck kicked off in the 00s has probably not been good for society.
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The problem is that people have been for a while now. And you can feel him starting to take that more seriously with the more serious content he picks and his editing.
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Aw it's not even actually gonna be about J6, just a summary of his "wild RV journey through America in the months leading up to the January 6 Capitol Riot." I'm betting it's 50 minutes of him doing funny interviews with crazy Qtard/Maga types across the country that humanize them and also make them seem insane, and a few probably explicitly say they're gonna be at the Capitol on the 6th. Then it's 5-10 minutes of J6 footage from other people, with a voiceover about how "these people seemed just like us, but they got radicalized blah blah," roll credits.
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It will be 100% "look at these evil insane rednecks that want to end democracy as we know it"
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I dunno, if this is truly a Callaghan doc (and not a "Callaghan doc" produced by Tim & Eric licensed by HBO), I think people will come away seeing the crazies on the right at least as human beings again. His style lends itself really well to sympathetic, or at least empathetic, portrayals of otherwise-insane people.
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That'd be nice. Here's hoping it beats my expectations
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Like Borat did showing those friendly qtards who put up a middle eastern man and camera crew in their home during COVID lockdowns, then caused a scene at their rally that almost escalated to violence.
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Youre just seething all over this thread and its obvious because it makes your subhuman kind have to look in a nirror
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I'd feel the same way about idk Ben Shapiro or Steven Crowder editing out reasonable responses when debating woke college students and only showing the really crazy ones.
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andrew goes for the subject involving idiots whereas shabibo/crowder go for the opinion of idiots on a subject of common parlance
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Anything less would be a lie
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With HBO money too. Dude is getting that bag.
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why did he leave his previous arrangement? his channel ran with a different name
i know another such interviewer who had to leave his org along with the cameraman and start a pvt youtube channel. the probable floated reason was him being sexually harassed & something
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The production company owned the rights to the channel. IIRC Andrew wanted more freedom so he left, but had to get new branding for his new channel.
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I really hope they start posting new videos on the AGNB channel trying to imitate his style and flop completely
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I like the big black man in the ski mask.
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Me too.
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Hate to break this to you, but he's a wingnut libtard with an obvious agenda of making hustle and bustlecels laugh at rednecks.
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That's a good
thing
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The only good
journo is Glenn Greenwald and don't you fricking 
forget it.
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I hate this frickin nerd
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The amount of acne he has is off-putting and I can't watch him because of it.
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Wikipedia is proof that even if history is written by the victors the ones putting it on paper are definitely losers.
Snapshots:
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
ghostarchive.org (click to archive)
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Thanks, Snappy! An oddly relevant remark.
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Looking forward to this. Andrew's openness to letting people speak their minds should hopefully generate some sneed from the usual people
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Where can I donate face wash
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imagine their babies
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He is the funniest shill now days.
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He’s a dull cute twink, this is what the zoomers like though I guess.
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Obligatory comment
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I thought it was gonna be Glennpai
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Only good and unbiased journo is Surveillance Camera Man.
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Matt Talibi or Jesse Signal?
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That reminds me, this dude Brandon Buckingham did a really great neutral interview of a bunch of people that day while adding some comedy. He even interviewed the guy who broke into Pelosi's office (at 6:12)
Afterwards he was contacted by alphabet boys and ever since he uploaded that video his youtube channel seems to be automatically suppressed by the algorithm, lol
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Yeah this is good shit, thx for sharing it, definitely gonna sub to this guy. Much more just acting as a vehicle for ppl to share their viewpoints and leaving it up to the viewer to decide how they feel about them.
And look at that, he did an O Block video before Channel 4 did, looks like Callaghan is following this dude lol
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this video is on oblock area whereas andrew's was on chicago drill culture with o'block as the vehicle. one is a basic neighbor shit, the other is mature editorial take
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His shit on bourbon street in the beginning was hilarious (I knew it before it was mainstream
) , but now all it is is fuel for smug liberals to quote a billion times and laugh at le dumb uncultured rethuglicans like irl redditors
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I love
Andy Callaghan and I'm certain that this will 
be at the very least pretty 
good 
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Eh. He was better as AGNB and without the hardcore leaning into political
shit.
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He's been talking about that for awhile. Crazy he's getting that HBO money for it. Good for him.
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Simon Orlovsky for VICE used to be pretty cool too. Dunno whether he's still making content though. Also, I think Bald & Bankrupt counts as a travel journ*list, his vids are cool.
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never go for the brand rep but the actual content like vice asia or vice japan. they still spit out gems like the making of african kungfu nazis
regular vice is straightup inferior
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Yeah he rules
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