The Problem With The Young Turks

Phaylen Fairchild
8 min readJul 10, 2023

Since 2002, The Young Turks (Abbreviated TYT) has grown into a formidable news resource, turning their anchors into up bona fide celebrities of the progressive movement. Transitioning early on from Sirius Radio to a full blown production on YouTube with over 5 million subscribers, the once liberal team put together by founder Cenk Uygur, who in 2013, crowd funded over 250,000 USD to build the developing news network their very own…

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Phaylen Fairchild

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