March issue of Esquire shows Casey Neistat with his GH5 on the cover !

He was also on the cover of the video issue of Popular Mechanics last October.
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He has several times as many subscribers than either of those magazines. Nice of him to help out old-school print media (where I spent many years).

The big news will be when Casey interviews their editors in chief. :)
 
Casey has some interesting videos. At first I didn't like the guy but realized he is good at what he does. He just takes a while to get used to.
 
I agree. At first glance, Casey comes off as kind of hipster/douchy but if you watch a few of his clips, he's actually a very astute businessman and approaches things from an interesting perspective. I'm not a huge fan but I admire what he has done and how he has built up his channel/following, it's kind of genius.
 
"The Most Trusted Name in News: Casey Neistat "
What an insult to any journalist who actually covers news, does the research. The man is a front and flogs gear. His hipster "approach" is so shallow and bought and paid for.... If this is what you my friends consider journalism, I am saddened.
 
BrianMurphy said:
"The Most Trusted Name in News: Casey Neistat "
What an insult to any journalist who actually covers news, does the research. The man is a front and flogs gear. His hipster "approach" is so shallow and bought and paid for.... If this is what you my friends consider journalism, I am saddened.
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From your bio :" Thank God for the young people in the biz....I am sure they will clue me in eventually" Maybe you need to get a clue.
 
Joe1946,
Thanks for taking the time to read my bio. Thanks also for respecting my right to my opinion of someone I find obnoxious and no more than paid performer,hardly someone who deserves the title journalist and certainly is NOT among the young people in the biz I admire. But like you, I will respect your opinion and the others. Thank God also for free speech..
 
BrianMurphy said:
"The Most Trusted Name in News: Casey Neistat "
What an insult to any journalist who actually covers news, does the research. The man is a front and flogs gear. His hipster "approach" is so shallow and bought and paid for.... If this is what you my friends consider journalism, I am saddened.
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BrianMurphy said:
hardly someone who deserves the title journalist
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Well, the magazine characterized him as most-trusted name in "News" and not "Journalism". It was you who twice made that leap and not the magazine.

My first take when seeing Casey Neistat characterized as "most trusted name in news", aside from knowing that the title was meant to provoke reaction, was that the characterization references how younger people today are highly skeptical of traditional news content producers and, most significantly, highly cynical in regard to traditional news content producers and sources. Our current President both tapped into that cynicism / skepticism ( if not also contempt ) towards traditional news and he has furthered it with his promotion of that cynicism. [ I am knowingly skating on thin ice as far as the no politics guideline here on DVX. But maybe an exception will be granted since this is within the topic of media and media content production. ] My hunch was that the provocative characterization by Popular Mechanics was in reference to younger audiences being more likely to find Neistat credible and not consider Neistat to be part of "the deep state", the "traditional media", "fake news" machine, or "the MSM". Or, at least, Neistat is considered authentic and "one of them" whereas the middle-aged talking heads on cable tv news are not. And it would seem that my hunch was in the ballpark:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/apps/a27904/casey-neistat/

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relevant portion:

PM: So you consider that a news product?

CN: I mean, I don't really know what a news product is. I'm a high-school dropout, not a journalist. But to me, the problem we're trying to solve here is, you have an entire demographic that's consuming media at a higher rate than any time in history, and you have an entire demographic that's further disenfranchised with the news and media and politics and the things that actually affect the world around them—arguably greater than they've ever been disenfranchised in history. How do we address those two issues? Whether you call it a news product or not, it's exciting.

PM: But for better or worse, CNN is professionally produced journalism. When you see Anderson Cooper on TV, there's a team of professionals behind him, and there's 20 years of his experience presenting you with the facts. I don't know who those people are on your app.

CN: Sure, but no one's presenting those people as journalists—the same way one wouldn't present the eight panelists behind Anderson Cooper.

PM: But they've been vetted, at least. The question is: Do young people care about whether they're getting news from Cooper or the people on your app?

CN: Well, they're not getting it from Anderson Cooper, so that should answer your question. We're certainly not trying to be the future of news. I think that's a horrible North Star to go after. [But] it's this disengagement with what you and I would define as both media and news and all that—it's not even on their radar.





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Read the article. Casey discusses the "fake news" labeling and his distaste for that. [ "there is no end to it." ] As Casey says in the article, "fake news" has now widely come to be a derisive label for anything you dislike, anything you disagree with, or anything that presents an opinion, perspective, or bias that is in conflict with your own. Neistat doesn't go there in the article, but I submit that with his practice of it the current President is in large part responsible for that sort of labeling, for the use of the label "fake" as a weapon. If I do not like my soup, the chef is a "fake chef". If I do not care for a song, the musical artist is a "fake musician". Because I do not like using small, dslr type video cameras, the GH5 is a "fake pro video camera".

If, in a given day, more people find Casey Neistat believable and trustworthy in what he says and reports than find any "news" source believable and trustworthy in what is said and reported on that news source, then maybe yeah, Casey Neistat is the most trusted name in "news". If the number of viewers is indicative of how trustworthy a content provider is considered, then it is Casey who has the numbers.
 
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BrianMurphy said:
Joe1946,
Thanks for taking the time to read my bio. Thanks also for respecting my right to my opinion of someone I find obnoxious and no more than paid performer,hardly someone who deserves the title journalist and certainly is NOT among the young people in the biz I admire. But like you, I will respect your opinion and the others. Thank God also for free speech..
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Show me a link to were Casey Neistat said he is a journalist.

Update : His youtube channel has 2,106,160,398 + views
 
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