HenryMakow.com – July 22, 2024
We need a return to journalistic standards.
I was a newspaper reporter during the 1970’s. I learned that the essence of the story should be in the first paragraph. W-5 Who, what, where, why, when.
Now that more people are watching videos than reading, this principle has been lost. At least half the time, the title is clickbait. The subject of the title is not addressed until deep into the video if at all. Instead of clickbait, the title should reveal the content.
Here are examples of clickbait.
TUCKER JUST LEAKED THE FINAL U.S. GOVERNMENT SECRET THAT NO ONE WAS SUPPOSED TO KNOW!!!
Just say what it is. Give the content in the title. People will keep watching instead of giving up in frustration.
LISTEN TO WHAT THIS CNN GUEST JUST SAID ABOUT THE TRUMP RALLY INCIDENT!!!
BREAKING! Stunning New Details in Trump Assassination Plot Exposed | Redacted w Clayton Morris
Guess Who’s Pushing for Peace
TUCKER JUST MADE HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
ELON MUSK DROPS HUGE BOMBSHELL!!! WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW THIS, THE CIA IS NOW PISSED!!
BlackRock’s Next Plans Will SHOCK THE WORLD” – Whitney Webb’s LATEST LARRY FINK EXPOSE
NEW EVIDENCE NOW FOUND ON THOMAS MATTHEW CROOKS, THE DONALD TRUMP SHOOTER!!!
Urgent! This explains everything. Please share.
Often the video is a lie. Citizen journalists are replacing the MSM which is now propaganda. But many of these citizen journalists are just trying to get clicks which means money. Often the claim in the title is FALSE. I.e Secret service director resigns. Well she hasn’t yet. Or – Chinese Troops At Ukraine Border Lies.
Whether it’s an article or a video people act like they’re paid by the word (or click.)
If you can say it in five minutes, don’t take ten. And say it right away. Writing is for communication, not self-aggrandizement.
YouTube has been overrun by carpetbaggers.
The Key to Good Writing – (Updated from June, 2006)
By Henry Makow PhD
The key to good writing is to consider your audience.
Henry, you and I are getting old. Losing patience. But, if you were a teacher, would you allow all the kids in the classroom, to have an opinion? Or only those that you approve? We have to let nature do its thing. Just like with all the other inventions in the past.
just see this
https://www.renegadetribune.com/former-cia-officer-ray-mcgovern-on-deep-state-operations/
It doesn’t matter if it’s a fake news rag, or NaziTube, your first paragraph or first few video minutes should cover all the main points, even if you intend to flip the narrative towards the end.
This is a bit rich coming from Makow and the other content creators he promotes.
So many alternative truther creatives are just as bad as the fake news media.
The first premise of presstitution, it that you have at least two trusted sources for any claims you make. In the Nazified West, this is impossible. You might get one or two anonymous sources, essentially a leak, or disinformation, or both.
I make assumptions based on my own intuitions. Mostly a skill set of my own based on don’t trust anyone, least of all, anyone in the alternative media.
If you are the type of imbecile that clicks clickbait… a clickin’ clickbait clicker..you are already too far gone to be of any useful service to man-kind or helped in any meaningful manner…
you have already been trained like the chimp* you are.. so keep on clickin’ an’ lickin’ (and complaining when you are deprived of the ‘upvote’ or the ‘like’ function, as you interact with the DARPA/NSA chump bots training you like the automaton you are)…
I believe they can give you SSRI’s for this type of malady.. which can help make clickbait a more rewarding experience and help the subliminal messaging and NLP more effectively mold your perception ..in fact they prescribe them for anything, anything at all….. forever… or until you go on a shooting rampage and are shot by the po po…
*deep felt apologies to the noble chimp an excellent creature and not at all a chump and used merely for illustrative purposes, that when compared to imbecile kind, towers above it like a God..
I agree with Henry on this one 100%.
I have also given up on vids/interviews with an estimated duration time of well over an hour, skirting around the main heading/issues in long-winded conversations and wasting time etc.
There should be a strict ruling. Keep it short, to the point, avoiding unnecessary lengthy detail and in a form that attracts ALL levels of educational background, social groups etc.
This principle should also extend to all writers/posters on the comments section.
I’m the same about scrolling past clickbait. If they can’t say what it’s about I’m no longer interested in it. I used to occasionally follow a man whose videos were about economics, but as he became more about the incoming money, and I can’t fault him for that, he put out more clickbait titles so I stopped watching him.
They have the opportunity to say what’s in the video so say it.
Archaeologists uncover ‘monumental’ structure in Palestine from the Bible©Facebook
Archaeologists have uncovered a ‘monumental’ structure in Jerusalem that is mentioned in two books of the Bible. They uncovered ruins of an ancient moat that was built more than 3,000 years ago in the now called City of David, which is considered one of the oldest cities in history. For 150 years, researchers have worked to prove the city was split in two – as described in the Bible – and they have now uncovered the moat that separated the southern residential region from the upper city in the north. Most of palestine has been systematically destroyed by the jews, but if this find is genuine, hopefully it can be protected
“Youtube has been overrun by carpetbaggers.”
Sites that ask for story suggestions also ask for a brief summary of the story. That’s what a title used to be.
When in doubt, don’t click. Find a site that puts information ahead of come-ons and teasers and time-wasters.
Henry states correctly: “I learned that the essence of the story should be in the first paragraph. W-5 Who, what, where, why, when. Here is the great example of what he refers to as catching your attention:
“It is untrue that I or anyone else in Germany wanted war in 1939. It was wanted and provoked solely by international statesmen either of Jewish origin or working for Jewish interests.”
Excerpt from Hitler’s final testament or his resume to end up in the good place.
Popups and ads are extremely annoying and make many essays/articles almost impossible to read.
You read one paragraph then have to scroll through some ridiculous clickbait ad. Sometimes they have scantily clad woman to try to entice you. How can you be serious about online line content when all of a sudden you are staring at some big boobs?
We are living in completely immoral Jewish run Babylon.
How in the hell can you read content that is plastered with distractions? Any website with ads means the owner is not going to want any controversial stuff posted because that would affect the revenue stream. What that means any site with ads and clickbait means the site is worthless for truth.
That’s one clue why Rixon’s site is excellent/
I also use a Firefox ad blocker, which keeps out of about all the MSM sites.
Bottom line? Ads = useless content
RE: clickbait I agree.
(2) things I can’t stand.
One is LOoooooNNNgggggggggg…posts and comments. While appreciate the effort and concurrently the passion, I tend to skim over and/or ignore.
I recall and old Prof who basically laid out the tenet of teaching in (3 ) step
(i)Tell them what you are going to teach them.
(ii)Teach them
(ii) Then tell them what you told them
ie
Preview…
Then meat of the matter,…
Tthen summary
Other issue is Re Clickbait :
I’ll try to grasp the theme of the video …again skim through and often its same old from the YouTube video.
Serial clickbaits ???
….should be outed and boycotted.
They expect US to waste our time and increase THEIR bottom line?
No thanks.
I like “I Allegedly”..YouTubesite
Host Dan always posts links to his video so one can review the sources and dig deeper if one chooses
,….I wish more people would do this.
YT is another DARPA type project like Amazon, FB etc. Clickbait is just advertising as usual to keep control of the masses before they are sent to be culled. It’s always a question of how many sheeple can ‘wake up’ for real, not the fake ‘woke’ programming BS.
I went to real schools, a private catholic high school (gotta hand it to the catholics they did something decent with their money) and a good university.
Anyways, I taught at a public High school for a while and I’m tellin’ ya right now, might as well be a different universe. Retarded as heck, they watched VIDEOS all the time – great way to get stupid fast, the moving picture turns your brain off.
Any site which features only videos – I avoid like the plague – FREAKING RETARDED…. AND SLOW AS HELL GETTING TO THE POINT.
VIDEOS ARE FOR DIM BULBS, THE WRITTEN WORD RULES.
Trump and Putin are portrayed as “anti-establishment rebels”
https://expose-news.com/2024/07/19/putin-wants-widespread-use-of-cbdcs/
On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin praised the “efficiency and functionality” of the Bank of Russia’s central bank digital currency (“CBDC”) and instructed his government to prepare for the widespread introduction of the digital ruble.
That was on Friday. For anyone who still believes Russia is opposing the UN’s plan to take over and control the world, you need to read Slavsquat’s report on Friday. You can read the full article HERE.
Russia is not only going full steam ahead on ESG and Agenda 2030, but the country is also well advanced in implementing totalitarian digital control through the use of a CBDC. Yesterday Slavsquat reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for the full-scale implementation of the digital ruble, Russia’s CBDC.
https://odysee.com/@januszkowalskii1979:e/Putin—He-Is-Owned-by-Chabad-Lubavitch:d
The Truth about Putin – He Is Owned by Chabad Lubavitch (Johnny Gat)
https://m-ug.tsargrad.tv/news/ty-privilsja-putin-vpervye-rasskazal-o-protivnikah-vakcinacii-v-svojom-okruzhenii_433884
Putin once again urged Russians to be vaccinated against coronavirus – Are you vaccinated? – Have you been vaccinated? – Not yet, I’ll wait for you to get vaccinated. Putin asked Russians to show responsibility and once again stressed that Russia has a reliable and effective vaccine
https://www.henrymakow.com/2022/02/vlad-putin-is-a-globalist-scum.html
In a speech to the WEF Davos Forum Jan 28, 2021, Putin affirmed his support for the covid hoax, the climate change hoax and mass vaccinations.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russia-vaccine-rules-putin/2021/07/27/640ea8b6-ebff-11eb-a2ba-3be31d349258_story.html
Want to skip the vaccine in Russia? You could be suspended from work.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3156884/coronavirus-vladimir-putin-receives-third-dose
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday he had received a third dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, as the country struggles with a fresh wave of the virus.
“I had it two hours ago,” Putin said on state television channel Rossiya 24, assuring viewers that his booster injection of the Sputnik vaccine had been painless.
https://www.henrymakow.com/2022/02/brandon-smith—ukraine-is-a-g.html
Brandon Smith – Ukraine is Globalist Psy Op
February 24, 2022
“Ukraine is a Plan B attempt to conjure more smoke and mirrors where the covid pandemic failed to satisfy the Great Reset plan. If you look at the WEF and Gates Foundation simulation of a covid pandemic, Event 201 which was held only two months before the REAL THING happened, they clearly expected covid to do way more damage, predicting an initial death tally of 65 million. This never happened; it isn’t even close.”
Again, the Russian government is NOT anti-globalist. This claim is nonsense and always has been. I would attribute the fantasy of Russian opposition to a steady stream of propaganda and what I call the False East/West Paradigm – The fraudulent notion that the globalist agenda is a purely Western or American agenda and that countries like China and Russia are opposed to it. If you look at the close interactions between the east and the globalists, this idea completely falls apart.
It’s important to understand that most conflicts between the East and the West are engineered conflicts and the leaders of BOTH SIDES are not really at odds with each other. Rather, these wars are Kabuki Theater; they are wars of convenience to achieve covert ends while mesmerizing the masses with moments of terror and calamity.
https://www.vox.com/2022/2/24/22948944/putin-ukraine-nazi-russia-speech-declare-war
Russia’s president says he wants the “de-Nazification” of Ukraine. That actually means regime change.
Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his version of an answer in his televised speech Wednesday night, announcing a “special military operation” whose “goal is to protect people who have been abused by the genocide of the Kyiv regime for eight years.” Ultimately: “We will strive for the demilitarization and de-Nazification of Ukraine, as well as bringing to justice those who committed numerous bloody crimes against civilians.”
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/11/02/russia-imposes-digital-covid-passes-amid-virus-surge-a75461
https://www.henrymakow.com/2022/02/vlad-putin-is-a-globalist-scum.html
In a speech to the WEF Davos Forum Jan 28, 2021, Putin affirmed his support for the covid hoax, the climate change hoax and mass vaccinations.
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“VIDEOS ARE FOR DIM BULBS, THE WRITTEN WORD RULES.”
This is a very important point.
There are several things going on. While both viewing and reading are passive, I believe the latter allows for a more considered appreciation. I read a lot, and if I will be writing about the material, I will make notes in the margins and underline etc. I have developed my own system of *, **, ***, or **** depending on how important the content is. I ALWAYS disagree SOMEWHERE with the finest minds, even when they are smarter than me. This way, I achieve something of a pseudo-dialogue.
Videos or even the deference given to the guy with the megaphone at public meetings — who gave it to him? — exemplifies the idea of “who speaks, rules”. This is the theatre for demagogues. Maybe the greatest exponent of this is David Icke who SPEAKS for hours on end. If I had to speak on a subject, I know that I couldn’t keep on going and going on. Icke can speak for maybe 6 or 7 times as long as me. He may be cleverer, but not by a factor of 6 or 7. The same comment WRT to Max Igan whose FARWELL message is about twice as long as I have attempted on YouTube for my whole content.
I am fond of quoting the idea that “the medium is the message”. An expression garnered from my yet to read copy of Marshall McLuhan of “Understanding Media.”
Unfortunately, in so far as we may wish to change the world for the better, the dissemination by visual and auditory means has a larger reach than the written word. I do share your frustration with dumbos; some of which have found their way here and will only quote or subsume that which their favourite talking head as uttered. And in this difference between the extensive reader and the extensive “viewer” we see the weighting of those who think for themselves and those that follow what others believe.
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Why Rixon Stewart posts the video (or articles) he does is a continual headscratcher for me. In so far as he may know they are BS, I fancy he does so to elicit critique; although he has said the articles are more important than the comments. Bearing in mind Rixon writes articles for the site — he is the kid with the footballer after all — this tells me he “knows better than the rest of us”. Although, I and many others probably think the same about ourselves 😊
If anything, maybe the man or woman who is genuinely knowledgeable should try and surmount their ignorance of video production and attempt to go better than the talking heads we see spouting forth from this site. And here there is a problem: even though it is easy to make any video, as I myself have discovered, it is harder to find the resources for hardware, editing, and so on to make it appealing. It could be a full time job. THIS begs the question of who can thus afford the production standards necessary to put forth good content. Not many.
It isn’t so much that you have to appeal to your audience but rather, that you have to appeal to the truth. You win an audience by bringing intelligent bearing to a subject and you maintain a readership by being morally consistent, authentic and insightful, in the matters that you choose to address.
Today, I clicked on a YouTube video, with a banner headline proclaiming, ” Douglas Murray Killed.” I thought, “Oh my goodness! They’ve got him.” Needless to say that it was a mere lure. He’s not dead. What idiocy!
I actually feel somewhat ashamed for having been concerned for the welfare of the Spectator’s poofter-in-chief.
Disinfostraction is in frenzied mode as the Cabal spasms in the death throe stage currently.All assets deployed to head off at the pass and intercept the newly awakening and thence deftly corralled into their respective holding pens of limbo confusion.Jones-Brand-Owens-Rogan et al even Redacted alerts my spideys,especially that beardy,white speccy serial interupter brandishing his ‘penetrating’ insights ad nauseum and stemming/re-directing any promising badinages’ in their tracks.
Just enough truth allowed to salt the bigger lies thus allowing some steam to escape the boiling frog pot.
comsicomsa: you are a bot. Maybe an AI bot. lol
Bioweapons are a thing. The Russian population is around 120 million, and I can assure you, Putin and the Russian elite wants to preserve Russian lives.
Russia faces internal and external threats. The Russians caught the US military collecting Russian DNA samples. Sputnik V is an espionage acquired Porton Down made double vector Covid vaccination. Probably the only Covid jab I ever had.
Covid wasn’t a scam. I’ve had it twice, and I can understand why some would die from this MI6 released bioweapon.
It’s important for Russia to keep on its toes and keep their sheeple vigilant to Nazi threats. I’m going to stop now, because it’s unlikely this will get posted.
NICO covered all this Putin/Russia stuff ages ago.Almost certainly Putin is part of it…..and he may very well be a crypto jew (no proof of th t yet)