The Vast Right-Wing YouTube Conspiracy
July 30, 2007 by Dan Solis
YouTube usually tries to stay away from featuring videos with political agendas, as well they should. What they will feature is obvious generic boring videos such as “STAND UP for WORLD PEACE”.
But if you’ve been to YouTube in the past few months, political sections sponsored by the site are taking over. And it seems the YouTube editors are getting increasingly more right-wing. Today’s top 3 featured videos on the News & Politics category page are all videos from Republicans, and one is a Rudy video filled with his phony “i’ll keep us safe” propaganda. Just because you happened to be mayor of NYC does not mean you have “A Proven Record” on “improving security”.
Why don’t they feature Gravel? He just had the YouTube YouChoose spotlight last week. Romney is being featured for his YouTube spotlight, and he had the YouTube spotlight months ago.
And also today, YouTube’s “Pick of the day” featured a video on their categories page, out of all other YouTube videos, called “Sicko - Why Michael Moore is simply flat out wrong - Part I“.
This turn for the right in YouTube’s political categories might turn off some viewers wishing not to get bombarded by right wing bias. It is already hard enough to find the content that you are looking for, but now you have to dig through Rudy’s rhetoric first.
Well dan in slang language about what happened with STAND up FOR WORLD PEACE its called hookin a brother up. Its wrong but its done
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Dan Solis Reply:
July 30th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
haha youtube pimps em out.
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Since liberals make up the majority of the American populace, and since YouTube has user generated content they have a liberal slant. It seems they might be trying to balance things some.
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this is a problem, but I’m more concerned about the fact that NewsCorp (owner of Fox News) is about to take over Dow Jones, which writes the Wall Street Journal.
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Joshua Davis Reply:
August 1st, 2007 at 11:24 am
i hope the bancrofts try to form an anti-trust suit.
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