The Young Turks on YouTube: Keepin' It Real and Beating Out Corporate News
With over one billion views on YouTube and counting, The Young Turks prove that successful, independent, online news is possible.

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Circumventing mainstream media and its gatekeepers, The Young Turks debuted the first online daily news talk show in 2006. Since then, the network founded by Cenk Uygur has accumulated more than 1 billion views for its progressive and unrestrained programming hosted on YouTube. It’s the largest online news show network in the world.
Like the proverbial “young Turks”—meaning “young progressive or insurgent member of an institution, movement, or political party”—The Young Turks shows how an independent network can beat corporate news at its own game.
Below, watch the Young Turks discuss a recent Fox News interview with Dick Cheney.