https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTCDfE_sKnM
source (10:06)
(Read or watch to the end. It's interesting, I promise.)
Okay, so a journalist from the wall street journal Ben Fritz
( https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ben+f ... sQ_AUIBygC )
He's the Professor Chaos butters with all the tweets showing racist jokes.
Anyway, he and two of his colleagues, acting on behalf of the wallstreetjournal, decided to write a progressive hysteria article calling pewdiepie a nazi because he told some racist jokes and how this was a sign of blah blah blah blah blah you get the idea, usual nonsense.
With me so far?
That wasn't enough of an eye-roll.
Before he released it, he and two of his co-workers secretly contacted all the businesses, sponsors, and affiliates of pewdiepie, as well as youtube itself, and pressured them to disassociate from him, demonitize his channel, etc.
They did this before reaching out to Pewdiepie for comment, or alterting him that they were writing the article. They were actively trying to generate news. (Remember, Ben Fritz also tells racist jokes on twitter. Keep that in mind. It casts the entire thing as it actually is, the whole virtue signalling progressive hysteria piece they were preparing was just an excuse to generate clicks and controversy, and they actively set out to ruin a mans lifes work in order to make it a bigger headline.)
None of pewdiepies business associates were prepared to ditch him despite the upcoming article, except disney. (Which, coincidentally, Ben Fritz's girlfriend works at.)
So the WSJ publishes it's thing. I'm not linking to it.
Following this, the rest of the barely-still-living media drones on nazinanzianzinainzianainzin because it's all they can muster the energy to do at this point.
Pewdiepie releases his first video (Not up there, that's the second) going over the incident, talking about how his respect for the media has declned the longer he paid attention, yada yada, we all know this, the media is shit these days. He apologizes for the racist jokes, says he thinks it's a learning experience doing comedy, and he's happy to continue improving. The video is maybe 1/3rd apology to any fans of his he may have upset, and 2/3rds mocking the media and some of their stupider articles.
Following this, Fritz and his coworkers re-emerges and starts once again with his colleagues trying to get businesses to distance themselves.
It's around this time, Pewdiepies fans discover fritz's racist jokes, the rest of the media is still droning on about nazis and bitching that his apology didn't count because he was meaaaaannn to the media, so he can't be sincere.
This time, after being contacted by Wallstreetjournalists again, Pewdiepies business associates let him know that, hey, they're trying to get us to ditch you behind your back. They did it before too.
The second video gets released.
In it, he quotes the journalistic ethics charter or whatever at the wallstreetjournal, and mocks them some more.
He notes they've been actively agitating to destroy his channel, and notes since Fritz the racist works there, and apparently that's how the game is played, maybe they should go after WSJ's sponsors and business associates.
So he puts the list up.
For his 54,000,000 fans to see.
Fritz and the other two are currently AWOL. I expect they'll have to keep their head down, or Fritz might be fired to maintain the ability of WSJ to have a progressive sneer. (I don't buy it. It's a farce. It's a farce for all these rags).
Notably, as pewdiepie points out, nothing they did to him actually hurt him. He has lots of money, doens't need disney, and as soon as people saw SJWs were attacking him, he got a spike in the number of subscribers.
He pointed out the media is dying, has no idea what its doing, and nobody trusts them.
So.
This incident.
It kind of summarizes a lot of stuff wrong with the media in my opinion. What'll be interesting is whether the blatantly unethical practices the WSJ engaged in here will be commented on by the other press.
PewDiePie was too big a fish for them. But they've probably done this before, even though part of the ethics they swear to uphold is to minimize harm.
My bet?
If they don't, it's normal for them to just ignore journalistic ethics and ruin an individual just so they can report on it.
Further, the hypocrisy of Fritz and what he did is worth a look at for what it says about virtue signalling, and progressive hysteria articles.
Notably, pewdiepie also linked at the bottom of his second video to a few political commentators on youtube who are anti mainstream media. (Netting them potentially millions of new subscribers.)
Also, shit.
54,000,000 people might eventually see that, and decide to have a crack at getting the WSJ's businesses to ditch them, presumably over poor ethics.
