Can Decentralized Journalism Change the World? | Live at Channel 5 Carnival
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0:00All right, so what’s up, guys? We’re outside the Channel 5 Carnival here in Denver, Colorado, and we’re about to hear people talk about their experience with Channel 5, what they like about it. This is definitely a case study in independent media and journalism. That’s what Channel 5 is. That’s what Gaya Cinco is, what all this shit is. And I’m honestly in the city like Denver, Colorado. This thing is sold out. Over the past couple of days, I looked up the website on Ticketmaster. There was like 400 tickets. There was like 200 tickets. And today I saw him posting a story of less than 100 tickets. Bruh. What’s your name, though?
0:33There’s a lot of conversation here about immigration, I would say, and like, for example, could Andrew be like, oh, okay, I really, I’m not in Denver, but I want to get people to go out and get the perspective of people in Denver on, like, on what’s going on, or maybe, like, say in Minneapolis, right, say he didn’t go to Minneapolis, but he invited, he put out, said, I want people to go out and I’ll give 100 bucks to my favorite content, and I’ll pick as many as I want for my video. and then all of a sudden he has like primary sources from a foreign context and he’s kind
0:57of just weaving out the through line. That’s kind of what I’d like to prove a concept for with my project. And so right now we’ve had people participate in my weekly bounties of a hundred bucks that people submit from Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda and in India so far like the last like three weeks. That’s crazy. Thanks. What’s up?