Sami Lee
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Hi there @Chita - I expect lots of people may have responded by now so my thoughts may well duplicate or be redundant!
But it seems to me that we're at some sort of watershed point, the tide really does feel like it's changing. So it's quite probably a good idea to document what we're hearing and seeing.
I've been watching more videos and comparing/contrasting.
I think the interviews by Avid Gardener, Popcorned Planet, Stef the Alternerd and Taz's were very good, high quality with a lot of very intelligent questions and answers. I only spent a short while on the Tom Jnr one.
You talked about youtubers being self-important and I've certainly thought that of quite a few of them for a long while. Reflecting on all those I've seen in this round though, I really do think that these youtubers have done a grand job in their interviews and especially in asking the upfront questions we'd want to ask.
It seems to me that they've risen to the challenge of the complete absence, disinterest and sheer cowardice of the lickspittle media.
I'm very impressed that 'our people' have filled the void - and I congratulate them!
Georgie was the same consummate performer as she always is on broadcast TV yet, it seems to me, she does better in these longer form interviews.
The conversational form allows her to relax and expand on her themes. However,
I've not heard anything new. Nothing. Perhaps there are more little 'easter eggs' in the book. I doubt it'll contain any of the much needed big bombshells though.
What I would say in mitigation though is that Georgie does sound very much more sure of her ground when talking in these interviews about, for example, the contentious elements and really does have the moonbump farce well between her teeth. She's not going to let that one go! (YAY!)
I imagine that now she's had the lawyers fine-combing the book and passing it for publication, she has the confidence to firmly express the evidence and facts as we know and have seen them and ditto her opinions. That strength and certitude can only be good for the cause of truth imo. In other words, there's a head of steam building that the RF will not be able to ignore at some point sooner rather than later.
Another thing I found myself applauding is Georgie's self-generated smart and inclusive PR campaign. With this book she's involved audiences that are new to her, not her usual beat. She's acquitted herself well with this new crop of interviewers and they've done her proud!
I'm hoping she's going to do an interview with PDina to cover more of the US audience. They get on well so that should be a good one too.
Another plaudit from me for Taz. She conducted that interview in a relaxed, friendly and professional way. She made it look easy - and it isn't (I know whereof I speak.) She has a lovely screen presence and I find myself hoping that she'll get discovered by local TV and that she'll become an 'overnight sensation'!
A mention for TRG's latest video on Geogie's updated book. Well worth watching the whole and listening to Griftie's reading of its epilogue.
