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In reply to the discussion: I have never blocked a poster, but if I could block David Pakman as a "source" I sure [View all]PatrickforO
(15,554 posts)Pakman has like 20 minutes of himself analyzing maybe a minute of actual footage. Honestly, when a YouTube video looks good enough to play, I usually turn it off if Pakman comes on first because I don't want to hear him. I want to look at the actual footage and come to my own conclusions.
And if you will permit one more rant about websites like CNN, the Hill, Huffington Post. Some people (me) like to just read the articles and then go into the video only if they are interested in it. But you don't have that choice, do you? They always ram the video down your throat, try to make you watch it before anything else. And all it does is parrot the first couple paragraphs of the actual article. Why can't we just read the article and NOT have an auto play set on the video?