Sometimes yes. Maybe not always. Better is a strangely vague word. Is there value in learning from you tube, TV or whatever....yes of course. Sometimes it's the best way to be shown by an expert, walked through something. It's so much easier to watch a Youtube video on how to curate on steemit than to read about it right? But what if you're creating vivid worlds? Sure, you can have an amazing SFX team like Pixar studios, but ultimately they will create one way of showing that world, one way that everyone sees. In the mind, you create your own world, not necessarily that even of the original speaker. This is the gift of writing.... you're making art that everyone will experience in their own unique way. And it can never be recreated.

My point is not that one is better than another, but that bloggers, writers, steemers, philosophers, whoever, when they write (or speak, or play, or whatever they do that creates the image in the mind) are improving the rich experience of life for themselves, and for others. Remembering that as you write is the key to passionate, brilliant, inspired work.

You Tube is great for learning about cryptocurrencies, sitting in a lecture learning about something cool, seeing real journalism, whatever. But writing, being the creator, is you with Godlike powers. Best to go at it with gusto I say.