Founding Bloggers interviewed the CNN Reporter that was arguing with tea party-goers from before, and it’s a very good look at the bias that’s present in any given broadcast.
Found this via Patterico. The CNN part of the video’s obviously been discussed to death, so I won’t go into that.
Perhaps the more interesting point is that this video was pulled from YouTube because of notice of copyright infringement. If you can’t use a video clip of a news agency that’s clearly biased as part of a larger video intended to expose that bias, then you simply don’t have freedom of speech. A news agency that’s using broad, overbearing copyright laws (the DMCA, demon-spawn of laws) to take away Freedom of the Press from bloggers…classic. Patterico’s post covers the legal grounds on which this video should be considered fair use.
So the deal is, everyone that has a YouTube account should re-post this video (and obviously, also post it elsewhere). The powers-that-be need to understand that there are certain legal mandates on information exchange that they have zero ability to enforce, and they need to FEAR for the fact that we can get these videos to whomever we wish, with a $0 distribution cost.
They go out of their way to lie to you every day, and they can’t handle that the word’s getting out.
Pattico’s site may be under attack; access is limited.
I posted my copy of the video; anyone interested in supporting the Fair Use concept needs to do the same.
For anyone who does’t know how, I use Zamzar; all you have to do if add the youtube link to extract any Youtube video (like the one at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-qkMak7wLs ) that you want (the default 3pg format works well), then upload that into your own Youtube account.
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Stewart was right, it’s like Freaky Friday. Faux Noise defends & support dissent as patriotic, CNN reporter acts like O’Reilly.
Yin & Yang gone horribly wrong.
This is probably a beneficial shake-up in the long run, and entertaining in the short run.