That as an academic I have to be reviewed and reviewed and reviewed to be able to publish and proceed in research, but filmmakers can just post whatever shit they want without any review process.
In the video below, Steven Crowder (a comedian/radio personality) talks about this video Vox produced. When I watched it I was immediately reminded of a documentary film professor (whose class I took for a day and dropped) who watched his roommate develop a heroin addiction (which ultimately ruined his life) and filmed it. Never once did the man (my professor) stop to think that maybe he should step in and help him, no.. let's just film it and submit it to film festivals and forget completely about the people in front of our cameras.
Now, I don't know much about the statistics in either side of the video, and neither give resources to their 'facts' so I say, if you watch.. take everything with a grain of salt.
But wouldn't it be interesting to see what would happen if YouTube started a review process like academic journals have?
