In response to the mass layoffs at Buzzfeed news, AOL, Yahoo, and up in the post,

many people on the internet decided to send the message,

learn to code to these people who are losing their jobs. Why? Because whenever there's an industry

that experiences mass layoffs, journalists write articles saying, why don't you just learn to code?

Seemingly, lacking any empathy towards the person who lost their job. Thus,

these people decided to send a message to the journalist saying basically the same thing.

But lo and behold, the journalists are outraged how dare they say this to them.

But now we can truly see the real lack of ethics coming from these people.

In response to a lot of mean tweets, many of these journalists are angry that Twitter

isn't banning any of these people for simply being mean. But why would Twitter?

Twitter didn't ban the people who are harassing the Covington kids. Why would they ban anybody for

simply being mean? And now we can see NBC News in a conflict of interest. Because of one of their

reporters has actually written a story about this failing to mention. He is in fact a subject of

his own story and is advocating for direct action. This is a major violation of standard ethics.

So today, let's take a look at the controversy surrounding learn to code. And I'll give you a

really good example of unethical journalism and why people are just so angry with these fake

journalists. But before we get started, head over to mines.com slash Tim Kastin. Follow me there.

Because of the changes hitting YouTube, I want to make sure I have a legitimate backup

on a separate platform that is not one of the major networks. So again, m-i-n-d-s.com slash Tim Kast.

There's a really important point that needs to be made in everything that's happening with

Buzzfeed and Huffington Post. This story from the Columbia Journalism Review, the digital winter

turns apocalyptic. The story talks about a lot of the general news we heard. They say,

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