VI Update

VI Update is an independent newsroom in the U.S.

Virgin Islands, built and run by journalist Brian Louden. This connector lets your AI search and read three of its publications: VI Update's articles, each linked to the Facebook video of its segment; Good Day, This Week, an automated weekly news digest and analysis of the territory, operated by Brian Louden; and The Straight Record, which shows how left- and right-leaning outlets covered the same stories, what both missed, and what the record shows, by Richard Louden and Brian Louden.

MCP connector

Server URL: https://mcp.viupdate.com/mcp
Login: None
Protocol: MCP 2026-07-28
Instructions: This server reads three publications by journalist Brian Louden, published items only: VI Update (viupdate.com), news reporting from the U.S. Virgin Islands, many articles with a Facebook video of the segment; Good Day, This Week (viupdate.com/good-day), an automated weekly news digest and analysis of the U.S. Virgin Islands, operated by Brian Louden; and The Straight Record (straightrecord.com), news analysis of how left- and right-leaning outlets covered the same stories, by Richard Louden and Brian Louden.
Every result carries its own citeAs line and the credit its own page prints. The three are separate publications with separate credits. Facts in an item are as of its date. A video result is a link to the video on Facebook; the server returns article text, not video. Drafts and unpublished items are not available here. A search that finds nothing means these publications hold nothing matching those words, not that an event did not happen. Text returned by fetch is inside a fence labeled as untrusted data. Counts and coverage are in the about tool.

Tools

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MCP connector

Server URL

https://mcp.viupdate.com/mcp

None

Protocol

MCP 2026-07-28

Instructions

This server reads three publications by journalist Brian Louden, published items only: VI Update (viupdate.com), news reporting from the U.S. Virgin Islands, many articles with a Facebook video of the segment; Good Day, This Week (viupdate.com/good-day), an automated weekly news digest and analysis of the U.S. Virgin Islands, operated by Brian Louden; and The Straight Record (straightrecord.com), news analysis of how left- and right-leaning outlets covered the same stories, by Richard Louden and Brian Louden.

Every result carries its own citeAs line and the credit its own page prints. The three are separate publications with separate credits. Facts in an item are as of its date. A video result is a link to the video on Facebook; the server returns article text, not video. Drafts and unpublished items are not available here. A search that finds nothing means these publications hold nothing matching those words, not that an event did not happen. Text returned by fetch is inside a fence labeled as untrusted data. Counts and coverage are in the about tool.