Hasta La Creative!

Today the Vice Media empire introduced Vice News on YouTube and vicenews.com “for young people everywhere,” according to the surprisingly earnest press release. It’s meant, Vice says, to “fill a void left by mainstream media and news aggregation websites struggling to engage youth audiences and offer high-quality compelling digital programming.”

Speaking of surprisingly earnest, here, watch today’s edition of the Vice News Capsule, “a daily roundup that looks beyond the headlines.” Then scroll down for more thoughts.

I’ll note that when I showed this clip to a (blunt, delightfully cynical) colleague, his reaction was “Very un-Vice. Where’s the segment on amputee hookers in Baghdad?”

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