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Topic History of: about the very public media hanging......will youtube make it through 2007?
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mediawatch |
A little bit of humanity died yesterday.
I think that goes without saying, Zooloo, but, some might argue that humanity died a long time ago....it's just that youtube/cnn/sky news weren't there to cover it.
The point being that the royal 'we' don't really have a moral high horse to climb up on. If youtube/cnn/sky were around 20/30/more years ago, or back when the 'west' carved up the middle east, it might sound a tad hypocritical to be lamenting the demise of humanity because of some mobile phone footage of Saddam on youtube. Mr. Pot, meet Mr. Kettle stuff.
There's a compelling argument to be made to get everything out in the open, so there's a certain transparancy about what's going on, but, I can't see that happening.
There's too much money involved and if litigation doesn't bury it, I can see new 'nanny state' legislation being introduced. |
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mediawatch |
mediawatch wrote:
To me it's not just the dumb acceptance of killing as a socially approved game but the horrid GLEE with which so many of us treat it.
It's not just the general GLEE. Don't forget the relief, especially from British & US quarters.
Wouldn't it get very interesting if the same open-minded spirit that got the mobile phone footage online, also reveals the invoices & shipping receipts from the defense departments that supplied Saddam with the gear to carry out the crimes he was sentenced to death over.
Getting back to the core thread topic i.e. the future of news media versus youtube type sites, somehow I can't see the opinion pages in the telegraph or the graudian reminding people that the british government openly supported saddam during his heyday. ditto for skynews or cnn.
But I can see bloggers getting stuck in, perhaps using the famous pic of rumsfeld shaking hands with hussein to, ahem, brighten up the blog piece.
When it comes to footage, I think the saddam video, regardless of whether you agree or disagree about the death penalty, has hit a new watermark in open media and I can't see youtube type sites surviving the sheer volume of litigation coming it's way in 2007 from news & publishing corporations, the music industry and the rest.
Even the English Premierleague company has threatened legal action against youtube because videos of premiership goals are being uploaded without permission.
With billions of dollars involved, how long before the corporation execs start inviting blair on holidays to their caribbean hideaways to discuss throttling the open media sites?
let's face it. He can't exactly offer a peerage in return anymore. can he? |
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zooloo |
JK2006 wrote:
To me it's not just the dumb acceptance of killing as a socially approved game but the horrid GLEE with which so many of us treat it.
+1
A little bit of humanity died yesterday. |
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The Cat |
No desire to see a video of the hanging. |
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JK2006 |
To me it's not just the dumb acceptance of killing as a socially approved game but the horrid GLEE with which so many of us treat it. |
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