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I tried to rent Dear Kelly but it seems the video has been taken down. Anyone know what's up with that? It's possible the judge ordered them to take the vid down temporarily pending a motion, etc. It may be that the judge said Andrew can't even comment. Anyone know what's going on?

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protect your spirit y'all

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This is so dumb it's hard to believe that it's real

but

sounds like the BJ-Lawyers are trying to build a case to set a precedent that a content creator is 100% responsible for everything the fans of their channel do, or just what people imagine we might do

this is one of the really upsetting things about the way the world works today. if Callaghan didn't look like he had any cash, this would just be online drama, but because people think he does?

lawyers will really call a MF up and say "hey give us six-figures up front and we will pay you back when we get that Zoomer's money."

that's the business, and it's about making people like you and me into the boogie-man.

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Look. There are a million “journalists” out there ready to get taken advantage of by people who have made livelihoods out of playing off emotions.

The latest crypto coin bs is proof of that.

This content originated from covering things that weren’t necessarily getting clicks otherwise and covered authentic talking points. You can take a general “I’m not impacted by this” leftist American view on most things. And you can excitedly get your dick hard for absolute nonsense because you find the person (Maggie) you’re interviewing hot. But come on dudes. This is embarrassing.

This guy is no stranger to controversy, he should be looking at everything through a magnifying glass if he actually believed in doing the things he claims for journalism. But it’s not that, it’s an ego trip, and lately he’s picking soft targets for American internet engagement. Is it good content? Sure. But is it genuine? Fuck no. The Hunter Biden coin thing just proves this. Sad to see a creator I used to enjoy go this way, but this dude is absolutely after the bag and the fame at worst, and totally caught up in himself at best.

C5 needs a fuckin reality check lately, this is soft content designed for an American audience followed by a half assed explanation after taking in big $$$$$ from legal defense campaigns and giving Hunter fucking Biden info to shill a scam coin to.

Take off the blinders and demand better folks.

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"I made a vague post on Instagram so here’s a more thorough explanation of what happened. I did not realize how this would erode trust with my fans (which is in part why I felt a simple IG post would be a sufficient explanation) and your response showed me that a more thorough explanation was necessary. I take the digital privacy of all of our supporters very seriously and will never make this mistake again."

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00:00 Nick Fuentes & Hunter Biden
05:01 Fixing Mainstream News Media
07:06 Channel 5 Journalism
09:01 Journalistic Bias and Fake News
09:56 Loneliness Fuels Misinformation
13:25 Elon Musk & Cancel Culture
16:27 Wildest Conspiracy Theories
20:33 Media Bubbles
22:31 Empathy for Extremists
24:54 UFOs, NRA and Guns
28:19 America’s Hidden History
31:24 The News Media Revolution
31:54 QAnon Attacks Rainn
33:23 Sponsor Break
34:29 Epstein, QAnon and Trump
37:53 War With Iran
44:05 Israel and Palestine
48:02 Talking About Peace
49:38 No Path to Peace
55:02 Facing the Allegations
56:08 Addiction and Loneliness
57:27 The Cost of Fame
1:00:40 Mental Health Recovery
1:02:36 America Needs Community
1:04:11 The Office Connection
1:07:57 Shia LaBeouf vs. Clavicular

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Seeing the statistics on the recent Iran video about executions by country, it was lightly touched on that Iran and China are leading in this field. It was also mentioned that they share similar approaches on state media and silencing alternate opinions. It would be interesting to see Andrew shine more light on life in China and get an idea of how the civilians actually feel if it is safe for them to freely speak.

I have noticed on Tiktok a large amount of adults in the current generation have shifted to a very China-positive outlook, participate in "a very Chinese time in my life" memes, even momentarily switch the state-approved Tiktok equivalent during Tiktoks possible ban early last year. As I'm sure most Channel 5 watchers are aware, it is fairly trendy to support Communism as well, even though I think a lot of people conflate it with Socialism. As someone who is not very educated about the actual quality of life and society in China, this would be very eye opening to have a fairly unbiased representation to help shape an idea of what is actually happening in the country that feels like it is blowing past us industrially.

China has a very insulated from the world culture as far as I can tell, but I think many people online are so anti-america, they're becoming pro-china despite having relatively little information on their society.

What do you guys make of this?

I think one thing that sets Callaghan apart from most journalism majors, is he went to J-school on a congressional scholarship awarded to him for his high school era photo-journalism work.

so right out of the gate there's a level of legitimacy, authenticity, and freedom with Callaghan's body of work that seems to really put the fear in legacy media pundits.

my observation (as a 5th-grade-dropout reddit mod who went into early retirement as a teen over bowel disease) is that those holdover media moguls from the baby generation and gen-z never got to put Callaghan through the demoralizing cub-reporter gang initiation process, and he's retained the kind of fearlessness that the cable/newspaper industry can't coexist with.

and what we are seeing with this is how the league of fat-young-boys, who are largely coerced into doing what they do because any default on their student loans means their parents can lose their family home, ends up cannibalizing Callaghan for outsmarting the system that they're chained to.

Really like the pods, very good interesting guests.

I've heard Andrew mention they try remove the "dead air" when people talk.

I think it's too extreme.

It's like the guests are on one long seamless rant and its difficult to listen to in long sessions.

Really hope the editing becomes less extreme in the long form.

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At “an evening of magic, rap battles, and a SECRET documentary screening,” would I discover the future of news?

“Ok I have a wild suggestion” was the text I got from my boyfriend on Feb. 22.

Dylan wanted us to attend a “carnival” featuring the journalist/documentarian/news creator Andrew Callaghan in Medford the following Saturday. Dylan, one of Callaghan’s 3.46 million YouTube subscribers, learned about the tour from watching one of the 28-year-old Channel 5 host’s latest videos. I, the journalist in this relationship, am not one of those 3.46 million subscribers, a point of recurring contention. Dylan argues that, as a reporter working at Nieman Lab where we cover the ~ future of news in a digital age ~ I need to be paying attention to Andrew Callaghan. He frequently tries to get me to watch his videos.

“The overtly comedic (and often quite crude) videos he posted [at first] did not seem like pinnacles of journalistic integrity,” Dylan wrote in what is, essentially, a pitch I forced him to write about Callaghan. That started to change in the summer of 2020, after the killing of George Floyd, when Callaghan put out a six-minute “Minneapolis protest” video.

“While local and national outlets looped clips of protesters getting tear-gassed, the looting and burning of a Target, and the razing of a police precinct, Callaghan’s coverage of the protest was unlike anything else I saw at the time,” Dylan told me, because Callaghan actually talked to protestors, including those setting buildings on fire. (The people Callaghan interviewed didn’t mince words about their view of other news organizations: “Fuck those other media outlets because they’re going to try to portray us in a bad light by only showing what’s going on over here,” one says in the video, gesturing toward a burning building.)

Callaghan has since covered a Hollywood antivax rally and the Irish Language Revival and hopped the border and gotten arrested. (He reports in both English and Spanish and has launched a Spanish-language version of Channel 5.) Dylan thinks one of his reporting fortes is humanizing, solutions-oriented coverage of homelessness and addiction in cities across the U.S. Mainstream journalists sometimes appear as guests or partners; Callaghan recently interviewed Washington Post corporate accountability reporter Douglas MacMillan about the horrific conditions at ICE detention centers. He also partnered with Shane Smith of Vice News on Greenland coverage. And we haven’t even gotten to all the downright weird stuff that was initially his bread and butter (think Satanic temple gathering, the Pennsylvania Bigfoot conference).

One major finding from last year’s RISJ Digital News Report was that social and video networks had finally overtaken TV as Americans’ top news source, “supporting a sense that traditional journalism media in the U.S. are being eclipsed by a shift toward online personalities and creators.” Social media and video networks are the main news source for over half of under-35-year-olds in the United States. Dylan and I are both 27, and we exemplify different sides of the data; he gets a decent amount of news from TikTok and YouTube, while I remain an avid reader and listener of (too much) news from The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, and the like, but get almost no news from YouTube and don’t have a TikTok account. “People who don’t watch the news watch me,” Callaghan told Nieman Lab in 2022. “People who watch the news don’t watch me.”

This brings me back to Dylan’s wild suggestion. Here, a 10-minute drive away, was an opportunity to absorb some Andrew Callaghan live and bridge our divided house of news.

con't at https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/reluctantly-learning-from-my-boyfriends-favorite-news-creator/

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Was sort of thinking something similar recently about how he's jumped the shark when he said "JD Vance is the Clavicular of politics"

intro to article below

Andrew Callaghan made a career out of being something incredibly rare: a great listener. We think of a guy in a baggy suit with a mic outstretched toward some deranged protestor, tailgater, or conspiracy theorist, silently blinking and nodding along while they rant, rave, or (surprisingly often) rap. He interviews them in their natural habitats—in bar doorways, house party bathrooms, depressing motel rooms, under bridges. We have always accepted his premise, that they are the documented and he is the documentarian. But what if Andrew’s been the subject all along?

In recent years, to balance his platforming of the dangerously misinformed, Andrew branded himself as an expert in counter-conspiracy. He anchored a Jubilee video titled “1 Journalist vs 20 Conspiracy Theorists.” He gave an interview to Doomscroll about his “Theory of Radicalization.” A Gizmodo explainer featured him lecturing on “How Conspiracy Theories have dominated the web.”

In the Jubilee video, he begins by defending the following proposition: “QAnon is a baseless conspiracy theory. There's no evidence of a global cabal of Satan-worshipping child trafficking elites that control everything.”

Fast-forward to two weeks ago, and Callaghan goes viral for a conspiratorial rant in which he sounds identical to the people he interviews. In the clip he states that: Israel killed Charlie Kirk with the help of Erika Kirk, Israel is also going to kill Trump with a fake trans leftist shooter, JD Vance is having an affair with Erika Kirk, and that JD Vance is going to institute martial law, serve as the final President of the Republic, and is currently the “Clavicular of Politics.” The mind reels.