Very weird to me that we're supposed to watch these random kids talk about world politics as if they have any authority, without giving us any context of who they are or why we should listen to them.

Checking out TLDR News on Wikipedia does not inspire a lot of confidence:

TLDR News were founded in April 2017 by computer science graduate Jack Kelly [the guy doing the interviewing] (born August 1996), with the aim of making the news engaging to young audiences. Kelly credits some of the channel's early success to having been started during the Brexit negotiations, which drew attention to it, as well as a lack of competition from traditional outlets on YouTube. Kelly was motivated to create the channel while studying at university for marketing. He observed multiple US news outlets publishing infographic news aimed at young people on social media and noticed that there was no similar ones in UK. Kelly views himself as a content creator rather than a journalist.

So it's political analysis by a marketing student turned computer scientist who does not consider himself a journalist. I couldn't find any information about who the people in the room with him are. But I could not find any reason why I would bother listening to any of them.

[–] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

And I am willing to bet Kelly doesn't speak any other languages other than English.

It's the dilemma of the information age, there is so much content and a democratization of content distribution, but no way make people take responsibility for their actions (all run by mega platforms based in the US that care about nothing being engagement).

There will be a reckoning at some point. There always is. Just look at Europe pre-WW1. The zeitgeist of the time was that they were entering a period of unprecedented modernity; the telegraph, continental rail systems, fast (by the standards of the time) travel. Then WW1 hit and a mere 20 years later WW2.

[–] heydo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I watched this guy during Brexit to keep up with the whole thing. He always seemed truthful and reported things without obvious bias. But I stopped watching once the Brexit hype started dying down and the channel started to go into more broad reporting topics.

I never felt they were trying to deceive or misinform, but I also wasn't very knowledgeable about the topics they were reporting.

I think your opinion is fair and a healthy way to look at it. They're not outright liars or anything, but they don't have a lot of credibility behind them either.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

TLDR is the high school morning announcenents of world news. They mean well and try to be objective. But they lack the skill or insight to cover things beyond the surface level facts.