Gas pumps and birdsong frame The Guardian's documentary week
Its West Virginia report has passed a million views, while an Argentine physicist searches for bird songs that have disappeared.
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Why one of the US's reddest counties is losing faith in Trump | Anywhere but Washington
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- 0:00Drivers in southern West Virginia describe rising fuel costs and question their support for Trump.
- 2:50A proposed Mingo County data center faces local opposition over pollution and state legislation.
- 3:44Republican delegate Jordan Maynor argues that data centers offer a major economic opportunity.
- 5:42Food bank organizer Janet Gibson tours the area and the proposed project site with Laughland.
- 10:35Residents from different political backgrounds gather to organize against the proposed data center.
A proposed data center gives The Guardian's West Virginia reporting a question beyond support for Donald Trump: who gets to shape the area's future?
Oliver Laughland visits a Republican barbecue, tours Mingo County with food bank organizer Janet Gibson and attends an informal cross-party gathering opposing the proposed facility. Republican delegate Jordan Maynor presents data centers as an economic opportunity; residents raise concerns about pollution and their say in what gets built.
"Why one of the US's reddest counties is losing faith in Trump | Anywhere but Washington" has passed a million views since Thursday. It is comfortably the most-watched of the channel's five new uploads and accounts for most of its daily viewing right now.
There is a very different kind of disappearing inheritance in "Dream of birds: the lost songs of Argentina | Ornithology Documentary". Physicist Gabriel Mindlin searches old recordings for melodies no longer heard in the wild, then tries robot tutors to help young birds learn them. The loss being investigated is not a species, but a repertoire. Alongside Robert Tait's reflection on witnessing a public execution in Iran, it is among the channel's busiest videos at present.
Daily viewing across The Guardian is more than double its usual pace, although subscribers were unchanged over the week. Nearby news channels had larger weekly view gains, including a particularly busy New York Post and CTV News. Here, the distinctive draw is the extended field report: a gas-station conversation that opens into a community's argument about jobs, land and political trust.
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- Channel
- The Guardian
- Subscribers
- 2,640,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 1,966,410
- Videos published this week
- 5
- Video published
- October 15, 2026
- Video views so far
- 1,093,147
- Views on its first day
- 430,297
The numbers
Here is how The Guardian's viewing and subscriber totals moved over the week.
