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VBS.tv is an online television network owned by the Vice media conglomerate. The network produces original, short-form, documentary-style video content. Subject matter includes humanitarian issues, music, insider travel guides, and news. The creative director of the network is Spike Jonze.[
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Formation
VBS began as a deal between Viacom-owned MTV Networks and Logo Group. In March 2007, the network was formed; MTV funded the formation of the network, and Vice magazine would supply the content. MTV has rights to distribute VBS content across its worldwide network of channels.[3] According to Vice co-founder Suroosh Alvi, "traditional journalism always aspires to objectivity, and since day one with the magazine we never believed in that...Our ethos is subjectivity with real substantiation. I don't think you see that on CNN."[1]
Circulation
VBS videos are available via the network's website, as well as being broadcast on MTV Latin America[3] and MTV2.[4] VBS is currently featured as a weekly show on MTV2.[5] Online circulation reached over 2.5 million hits in 2008.[6] Recently, VBS.tv content has appeared in CNN as part of their CNN presents lineup, with CNN stating that "... We believe this unique reporting approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers."[7]
Content
The network's videos feature reporting on popular culture, travel, extreme sports, and music.[8] The site has also produced special-interest and current affairs-based shows such an interview with Hezbollah's self-proclaimed mayor of Beirut and a show that explored allegations of environmental abuse. It has also approached drug issues, producing an exposé about the criminal use of the drug scopolamine in Colombia.[3] Other coverage includes a series of short documentaries about Darfur, Hurricane Katrina[1], Liberia, and North Korea.
The network also produced Heavy Metal in Baghdad, a feature length documentary film on the Iraq War.[9][10]
Motherboard
The network also hosts Motherboard, a series of science and technology documentaries. Recent subjects have included Raymond Kurzweil who discussed his vision of the technological singularity[11] and provided an interview for the print edition[12]. Another subject the network have documented is Robert J. White, an American surgeon best known for his head transplants on monkeys.[13]
VBS Meets...
VBS also streams video interviews with a range of public figures of interest. Recent guests have included Roberto Saviano, author of the Mafia exposé Gomorrah, now a major motion picture. Vice Magazine also published a full-length interview with the author.[14] The network also interviewed the actress and recording artist, Charlotte Gainsbourg together with the acclaimed French director, Michel Gondry.[15] Other musicians that have filmed interviews with the network include the rapper, Sean Paul[16] and the Jamaican reggae star, Sizzla.[17]
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