How Vice Media normalizes US empire under hipster guise




Moderate Rebels show

Summary: Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton are joined by filmmaker Robbie Martin to discuss how VICE transformed from a nihilistic hipster magazine into a media empire that propagandizes on behalf of the US empire, dutifully promoting hawkish American foreign policy with an edgy aesthetic. We address the hundreds of millions of dollars of investment Vice Media received from corporate media conglomerates, along with the coterie of regime change trolls who emerged from VICE. Part 1 of 2