As a magazine, I find Vice to be too overbearingly "hip." I feel like it tries too hard to be gritty and in-your-face. However, the news content is pretty remarkable. Vice has a knack for finding stories you really wouldn't find in any other news forum, and for tackling subjects that are obscure but fascinating. Vice's online "channel" is home to mini-documentaries and interviews on topics and with people you've never heard of before, but are mesmerized with by the time you're done watching.
The following video is on Aokigahara Forest in Japan, the site of a startling number of suicides. It's an incredibly unconventional topic for a news-feature video, but it's humanizing and gives you a glimpse of a part of the world you might never otherwise have seen. It's a really tragic story, and it brings into stark light a subject that is usually ignored or not discussed.
The website wasn't allowing me to embed the video, so here's the link: http://www.vbs.tv/watch/vbs-news/aokigahara-suicide-forest-v3--2
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