Vice's Hard-Right Turn to Trumpism - 2024-11-19

Vice's Hard-Right Turn to Trumpism November 19, 2024, Nikita Mazurov, The Intercept

---

VICE News once covered the border with videos that exposed the hardships faced by immigrants, such as "The Human Cost of Hardening the US-Mexico Border" and "What It's Like To Raise Your Child In An Immigration Detention Center."

It was quite a shift, then, when just before the election, Vice News uploaded to its YouTube channel a video originally titled: "This is How Illegals are Sneaking into the USA." Vice News later retitled the video to "This is how people are Sneaking into the USA," walking back language that had overtly dehumanized immigrants by referring to them as "illegals" rather than people.

The video appears to be representative of a new era for the media company. Best known for helping define the Brooklyn hipster aesthetic and publishing provocative original reporting in its heyday, Vice Media collapsed in recent years, going from a company valued at multiple billions of dollars with a show on HBO to declaring bankruptcy, laying off hundreds of workers, and being sold for $350 million to a hedge fund.

Wikipedia cite:

{{cite news | first = Nikita | last = Mazurov | title = Vice's Hard-Right Turn to Trumpism | url = https://theintercept.com/2024/11/19/vice-news-right-wing-trumpism/ | work = The Intercept | date = November 19, 2024 | accessdate = November 25, 2024 }}