— Vice Media has filed for bankruptcy. When Vice started almost ten years ago, it appealed to the time’s zeitgeist. Vice published stories that did well on social media, stories that were unconventional in what was reported and how it was reported. Reporters went to war zone and other extreme locations delivering stories that fared well with the you-won’t-believe-what-happens-next-audience. Some called in Gonzo journalism but that, frankly, an offence to Hunter S Thompson. And just how Buzzfeed‘s answer-these-five-questions-and-we’ll-tell-where-you-should-live clickbait got boring, audiences grew out of Vice‘s semi shocking reporting. Because the world got a lot scarier near our cozy middle-class homes and because we got older. In the same way going to bars and clubs became irrelevant, Vice became irrelevant.
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Tuesday, 16 May 2023