Hamilton Morris
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Podcast Appearances
sort of professionalized youtube documentary work it is also before youtube but this kind of no budget fully independent style even though it was coming from a media outlet that was the idea is like you don't need this typical professional production apparatus you can just throw people out and make something right and at what point what was like the straw that broke the camel's back with vice
sort of professionalized youtube documentary work it is also before youtube but this kind of no budget fully independent style even though it was coming from a media outlet that was the idea is like you don't need this typical professional production apparatus you can just throw people out and make something right and at what point what was like the straw that broke the camel's back with vice
sort of professionalized youtube documentary work it is also before youtube but this kind of no budget fully independent style even though it was coming from a media outlet that was the idea is like you don't need this typical professional production apparatus you can just throw people out and make something right and at what point what was like the straw that broke the camel's back with vice
There were a few things. I mean, one was you had overvaluation of Vice in general. So it was kind of coasting on this massive, what was it, like a $6 billion valuation, something nuts that was definitely inflated, not to say that it wasn't worth something. You had an increasingly resentful and tired workforce and an increasingly large number of enemies
There were a few things. I mean, one was you had overvaluation of Vice in general. So it was kind of coasting on this massive, what was it, like a $6 billion valuation, something nuts that was definitely inflated, not to say that it wasn't worth something. You had an increasingly resentful and tired workforce and an increasingly large number of enemies
There were a few things. I mean, one was you had overvaluation of Vice in general. So it was kind of coasting on this massive, what was it, like a $6 billion valuation, something nuts that was definitely inflated, not to say that it wasn't worth something. You had an increasingly resentful and tired workforce and an increasingly large number of enemies
that had been cultivated by executives at the company. You also had increasing desire from rival media outlets to discredit them, which gives an incentive to write articles about how they're bad or irresponsible.
that had been cultivated by executives at the company. You also had increasing desire from rival media outlets to discredit them, which gives an incentive to write articles about how they're bad or irresponsible.
that had been cultivated by executives at the company. You also had increasing desire from rival media outlets to discredit them, which gives an incentive to write articles about how they're bad or irresponsible.
You also had a very ill-advised transition from streaming online video, which they had built their brand on to cable TV, which was a dying art. In like 2016, right? Yeah, at a time when this made really no sense. It's like, I think it kind of speaks to how ill-advised that decision was that I couldn't watch my own show because I don't have a TV.
You also had a very ill-advised transition from streaming online video, which they had built their brand on to cable TV, which was a dying art. In like 2016, right? Yeah, at a time when this made really no sense. It's like, I think it kind of speaks to how ill-advised that decision was that I couldn't watch my own show because I don't have a TV.
You also had a very ill-advised transition from streaming online video, which they had built their brand on to cable TV, which was a dying art. In like 2016, right? Yeah, at a time when this made really no sense. It's like, I think it kind of speaks to how ill-advised that decision was that I couldn't watch my own show because I don't have a TV.
It was one of these things where I sort of thought, okay, well, if this is what is going to bring resources in and allow me to make documentaries, whatever. But in the back of my head, I was always thinking this seems like a bad idea. And then on top of that, you had this sort of – gradual erosion of their identity, which had begun probably because there were different eras, right?
It was one of these things where I sort of thought, okay, well, if this is what is going to bring resources in and allow me to make documentaries, whatever. But in the back of my head, I was always thinking this seems like a bad idea. And then on top of that, you had this sort of – gradual erosion of their identity, which had begun probably because there were different eras, right?
It was one of these things where I sort of thought, okay, well, if this is what is going to bring resources in and allow me to make documentaries, whatever. But in the back of my head, I was always thinking this seems like a bad idea. And then on top of that, you had this sort of – gradual erosion of their identity, which had begun probably because there were different eras, right?
You have the kind of Gavin McInnes era, which is oriented entirely around ultra edgy humor. Vice is basically a humor magazine, a humor art fashion magazine, totally, totally different. And then it goes from that to a
You have the kind of Gavin McInnes era, which is oriented entirely around ultra edgy humor. Vice is basically a humor magazine, a humor art fashion magazine, totally, totally different. And then it goes from that to a
You have the kind of Gavin McInnes era, which is oriented entirely around ultra edgy humor. Vice is basically a humor magazine, a humor art fashion magazine, totally, totally different. And then it goes from that to a
sort of transitional literary era that doesn't get talked about very much where there was this brilliant guy named Jesse Pearson who is the editor of the magazine and he's a sort of intellectual who wanted to use it to publish fiction and art photography and things like that and that was around the time that I started working there and it was actually like a really cool era to be there and
sort of transitional literary era that doesn't get talked about very much where there was this brilliant guy named Jesse Pearson who is the editor of the magazine and he's a sort of intellectual who wanted to use it to publish fiction and art photography and things like that and that was around the time that I started working there and it was actually like a really cool era to be there and