![]() ![]() ![]() In its lesser moments, it felt like Full Frontal or Last Week Tonight without the jokes and, honestly, with less on-air depth. In its best moments, Vice News Tonight felt like a string of little amuse-bouches to whet appetites for full meals available online. So much of Vice News Tonight is supposed to be about simulating immediacy, giving the impression of watch news fly by unfiltered and a lot of immediacy is squandered when you have too many dud segments that left me looking to my computer to see what else I could do. And Michael Kalenderian’s “Yesterday on the Internet” segment was an unenthused rehashing of the reactions to the debate that you either saw on Twitter last night or in Buzzfeed lists this morning or percolating through the slower corners of your Facebook feed this afternoon. Arielle Duhaime-Ross‘ summary of how climate change added to Hurricane Matthew’s devastation was there in case you had a dinner scheduled tonight with a stubborn old relative, but felt rudimentary. Evan McMorris-Santoro standing in Pennsylvania with his hands in his pockets looking cold and uncomfortable in proximity to Trump supporters the day after Sunday’s debate offered nothing to this broadcast, even if he got great interviews that will be featured tomorrow online. Real reporting also came courtesy of Roberto Ferdman, with a piece on a Wells Fargo manager from Washington who discovered manipulations of client accounts as early as 2005 and attempted to contact various bank authorities and was disregarded.īut there also were segments that delivered very little. I also appreciated Antonia Hylton’s piece on prison strikes in Alabama, complete with an interview with a former guard showing off confiscated improvised weapons and an inmate speaking on a purloined cell phone from solitary. If you want to know more about France demanding an investigation on Aleppo, Mylan reaching an agreement on the EpiPen gouging or student protests in South Africa, you have to Google that yourself (or probably click on a link if you were watching on a connected device), but the assumption is presumably that Vice, with only barely more information than a tweet, lets you know what news there is to explore and then lets you get more depth yourself on what interests you.Īnd there was more depth on other stories, driven by Vice News reporters and field crews. It’s almost like a dating-app approach to the news, except that you can’t swipe on your TV.įrom the top of the show, headlines went by fast and without commentary or analysis or color. ![]() The first episode of Vice News Tonight was just fine, boasting an appealing and distinctive structure, a brief standout interview, a couple of little animated segments, some good reporting and more filler than I personally think a 23-minute premiere was probably entitled to.ĭispensing with an anchor desk and a consistent newsreader and blurring the line between segment titles, giant keywords and salient factoids, the news seemed to be divided into topical packets and more to slide by, generally without hierarchy or filter. Inside Vice's New 75K-Square-Foot Headquarters in Brooklyn (Photos) ![]()
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