r/Channel5ive 5h ago

AMERICA, FUCK YEAH Institutionalized Gatekeeping? Why does MSM want journalism to be tied to a short leash?

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What do you guys make of this?

I think one thing that sets Callaghan apart from most journalism majors, is he went to J-school on a congressional scholarship awarded to him for his high school era photo-journalism work.

so right out of the gate there's a level of legitimacy, authenticity, and freedom with Callaghan's body of work that seems to really put the fear in legacy media pundits.

my observation (as a 5th-grade-dropout reddit mod who went into early retirement as a teen over bowel disease) is that those holdover media moguls from the baby generation and gen-z never got to put Callaghan through the demoralizing cub-reporter gang initiation process, and he's retained the kind of fearlessness that the cable/newspaper industry can't coexist with.

and what we are seeing with this is how the league of fat-young-boys, who are largely coerced into doing what they do because any default on their student loans means their parents can lose their family home, ends up cannibalizing Callaghan for outsmarting the system that they're chained to.


r/Channel5ive 14h ago

Canal-5 The quick cut Editing style. Makes it feel like a very long reel or short, maybe just me.

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Really like the pods, very good interesting guests.

I've heard Andrew mention they try remove the "dead air" when people talk.

I think it's too extreme.

It's like the guests are on one long seamless rant and its difficult to listen to in long sessions.

Really hope the editing becomes less extreme in the long form.

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