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Media, journalism & propaganda Videos Recommended on Hacker News (334)

Media, journalism & propaganda is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 334 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 688 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Media: journalism, news analysis, propaganda, misinformation, news satire, Last Week Tonight, VICE documentaries, media criticism, advertising and persuasion, conspiracy theories, UFOs.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on In Search Of A Flat Earth: “probably the best documentary I have seen on conspiracy theories.” — an HN commenter, 2021.

Media, journalism & propaganda Videos Recommended on Hacker News (334)

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In Search Of A Flat Earth

The Century of the Self (Full Adam Curtis Documentary)

The Loving Trap

The Century of the Self - Part 1: "Happiness Machines"

This Is What Winning Looks Like (Full Length)

The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire | The Secret World of Finance

Contrepreneurs: The Mikkelsen Twins

May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications

Everything is a Remix (Original Series)

Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs

DEF CON 26 - Svea, Suggy, Till - Inside the Fake Science Factory

HyperNormalisation 2016

Civil Forfeiture: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering | Lex Fridman Podcast #122

FarewellEtaoinShrdlu

The Lottery: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Canceling | ContraPoints

Explained: New Navy UFO Videos

Jon Stewart on Crossfire

Pig Butchering Scams: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

College Lecture Series - Neil Postman - "The Surrender of Culture to Technology"

KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov 1985 Interview. Explains KGB Manipulation of US Public Opinion

Gimbal UFO - A New Analysis

The Boeing 787: Broken Dreams l Al Jazeera Investigations

FULL INTERVIEW with Yuri Bezmenov: The Four Stages of Ideological Subversion (1984)

I Watched Ancient Apocalypse So You Don't Have To (Part 1)

Televangelists: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Operation InfeKtion: How Russia Perfected the Art of War | NYT Opinion

Flat Earth: A Measured Response

Noam Chomsky: The five filters of the mass media machine | The Listening Post

The Alt-Right Playbook: How to Radicalize a Normie

Explained: "Go Fast" UFO Video - Not Low and Not Fast - Like a Balloon!

Charlie Brooker's How to Report the News - Newswipe - BBC

Chinese Invisibility Cloak Hoax DESTROYED!!!

Municipal Violations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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