The new Viceland channel perfects the modern journalistic art of playing dumb

If cable TV is so terribly uncool, what's Vice Media doing here with a new channel called Viceland? The youth-focused, ­Brooklyn-based media and marketing empire launched Viceland on Monday, in partnership with the A&E family of networks, which includes Lifetime and History Channel. (Viceland replaces the channel formerly known as History's H2.)