The Onion News Network Official Website: HERE YouTube Channel: HERE Wikipedia Page: HERE
The Onion news network is a popular and well respected News source famous for delivering some of the more interesting, thought provoking and stimulating news stories around... And they're all fake.
Humbling the internet with its far fetched pieces and articles the Onion has tricked many unsuspecting people into believing ridiculous new stories since 1988. Originally a joke newspaper project the Onion is now the biggest satirical news network online and has been in business since 2007. The internet community has welcomed the Onion into its homes with open arms and it will only get bigger and better as the years roll on.
Diggnation Digg Website: HERE Revision 3 Channel: HERE YouTube Channel: HERE
Digg is one of the most influential websites online today, Ranked #13 on the Alexa.com survey their main purpose to to direct people to the biggest videos, news stories, online trends and issues on the internet each and everyday. Millions of people flock to Digg everyday to share or find what the internet has to offer.
Obviously a big social media site like Digg would have it's own little show showcasing the stories and issues of week on the site.That's where Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht come into play as they host Diggnation.
The Young Turks Website: HERE YouTube Channel: HERE ----- TYT YouTube Network: The Young Turks Interviews: HERE The Young Turks "What the Flick!?": HERE The Young Turks Sports: HERE The Young Turks Top Vlogs: HERE
Seeing as most major search sites like Yahoo, MSN and Google all have their own corresponding news coverage, most people don't really need to look far to get quick news straight to their browser. Basic news as it is there are still some premium news broadcasts online and here's the biggest one, The Young Turks.
Starting out on February 14th 2002 The Young Turks was the brainchild of Turkish American journalist Cenk Uygur. Cenk hosts this moderately liberal daily internet talk show with various co-hosts each day discussing major political issues and events and various other pop culture news. The Young Turks claims to be the first internet news show available online and is currently the biggest one on the net. Averaging 18 Million video views a Month a lot of people are getting their news from TYT
ROCKETBOOM - Daily Show with Molly Website: HERE YouTube Channel: HERE
News on the internet is more enjoyable and disgestable then standard televised news broadcasts mainly due to the fact that there is no political agenda or required professionalism that forces the hosts to speak in a frank and serious tone of voice.
Rocketboom's Daily show is hosted by the exquisite Meme Molly and it's like a normal news broadcast except delivered in a ironic and comedic slant. Whether it be presenting stories about social movements, emerging trends in contemporary internet culture or providing political commentary, Rocketboom Daily provides a wide information and news coverage for it's broadcast and has been doing so since 2004.
The Gregory Brothers Website: HERE YouTube Channel: HERE
This famous 4 piece comprised of Evan, Michael, Andrew and Sarah Gregory are probably the most famous YouTube musicians in existence.
If you haven't heard of the Gregory Brothers or haven't seen one of their videos then you clearly don't know anything about the internet at all. Their videos are some of the most watched and lucrative on the net. Their Auto-Tune the News series was the launching pad to internet stardom where they would jazz up the News broadcasts by Auto-Tuning the media presenters and sing-a-long with them.
A pretty random thing to Auto Tune but Auto Tuning random clips is now a staple of the internet. If there is a famous viral video online chances are days later a Auto-Tune remix will spring up.
Phillip De Franco Website: HERE Phillip DeFranco Show YouTube Channel; HERE Phillip DeFranco Vlog YouTube Channel: HERE
There are plenty of ways to get "News" these days, modern media gives us many different news outlets, Radio, Paper, Magazine, Televised and of course the most prominent and rel event is News available via the Internet. Internet Journalism is slowly making the other mediums less and less rel event due to the convenience of it's immediate availability, multiple sources and of course the fact that is costs practically nothing and is a standard feature on most mainstream web surfing sites like MSN, Yahoo and Google.
However with the agenda of news sources some important issues get glossed over for more rel event localised news and some stories never get the coverage they rightfully deserve.
Phil on Net Neutrallity
Phillip DeFranco is a popular and some what respected YouTube vlogger who has a Bi-Daily show called cleverly enough the Phillip De Franco Show on YouTube where he talks about all the important issues of the day to his Millions of followers and subscribers. Presented in a fast paced and edited clip using the jump cuts to help speed up the information transfer he runs down of events of the past few days it is often a mixture of serious world event news, political issues, crazy and unreal stories, concerning trends in society and of course some fluff pieces about attractive women to help gain his quota of impressionable males.
Alongside his News Show is his vlog and various other side projects Phil gets himself into every now and again, like the guest starring in Internet Horror series Black Box TV and Hooking Up a web series about the College Dating scene. Whilst also contributing to LTA (LikeTotallyAwesome), a electronic media review channel where they review games, gadgets and movies.
Still in his 20s Phillip DeFranco is a YouTube success story of how a simple idea about talking about the World to the Internet can get you voted 2008 Sexiest Geek by Wired Magazine.
Get to know Phil, Get a look inside the interesting life of an Internet Celebrity.
