How do you annoy the maximum number of Liberal blogs with minimal effort? If you're Fox News, all you have to do is shut down the YouTube channel that supplies them with infuriating O'Reilly Factor clips. They did this today!
Spend even a few minutes on a politically-inclined blog that leans to the left, and you'll spot the little red-and-white "News1News" logo (above) attached to the upper-left corner a YouTube clip, usually of Glenn Beck ranting hilariously or otherwise being horrible. News1News specializes in capturing and uploading Fox bloviator's most outrageous statements for all of eternity. And each day, we bloggers—from the Huffington Post, Mediaite, Truthdig, Gawker, etc.—plucked newsworthy clips from News1News' Youtube channel, surrounded them with our words, and put them on our sites. (In fact, Mediaite's feature "Your Moment of Glenn" is all News1News clips.) From all this blog love, News1News videos had more than 20 million cumulative views by the time it was shut down. It was the simple, convenient way to stoke Liberal ire!
But today, it appears that Fox News determined it was time to close this one-stop Liberal blog fodder shop: They sent more than 150 DMCA takedown notices to YouTube regarding Fox News clips on the News1News channel, said the channel's proprietor, John. (John, a doctor living in Washington, DC, didn't want his last name used.) This put the channel well over YouTube's controversial "three-strike" copyright violation limit. News1News was shut down, and John was inundated with emails from caffeine-addled bloggers asking, frantically, "what happened!?"
Because, now, if you try to watch Hannity's infamous apology to Jon Stewart on the Huffington Post, or Michael Jackson's "ghost" on Gawker, or Glenn Beck saying dumb stuff on Truthdig, you will only see "This Video is no longer available due to copyright claim by Fox News LLC". (SPOOKY!!)
Which, granted, these clips did belong to Fox, and they were well in their rights to have them taken down, as specified by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. So how do we know this is a politically-motivated move by Fox to hinder the liberal blogosphere's ability to make fun of them? Because plenty of Fox News clips are still available on YouTube—only on conservative-leaning channels: GlennBeckDailyClips, for example has more than 630 clips of, well, the Glenn Beck Program. And ConservativeNation has 186 stomach-churning videos from the whole spectrum of quality Fox News programing. Also: Duh, Fox News would totally do something like this.
News1News is back up, at a new address—at least until Fox takes it down again. But what's surprising about this whole episode isn't that Fox will use digital copyright law to fight back against its political opponents; it's that the operators of these popular cable news-ripping YouTube channels are actually pretty important players in the blog game. Think about it: They not only get to select which cable news clips have the possibility of "going viral" and becoming news themselves, but if they're taken down, whole swaths of video-based blog posts become a lot of words surrounding a big empty space.
Fox News thought John was important enough to take down, even though he's just some guy whose hobby is clipping videos and putting them on YouTube. And John said that network bigwigs took enough notice when one of his MSNBC clips hit 500,000 views that VP of Digital Media, Mark Lukasiewicz, personally called him to say they had their eye on him. (Mark Lukasiewicz could not be reached for comment because he is important and it is 9:30pm.)
How does John do it? "I DVR things," he said. "I know what people are going to find interesting. You can watch a Bill O'Reilly show and you can pick out the things that are going to make heads explode. Literally, when my head explodes I know it's going to be a good clip."
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- logicpocket
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Doesn't FOX have something better to do, like actually report the news? Oh, wait. I shouldn't expect real journalism from FOX.
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Hmm, if I didn't know better I'd say FOX "News" was limiting "free speech" to the conservative blogosphere. I'd bet 10-1 that the ACLU would be interested in this.
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a desperate move. they went too far and now it's time to cover tracks.
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Internet is too viral for Fox's strategy to be effective. Rupert will grow tired of burning cash on this.
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- TypeMemeHere
- 8 days ago
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Faux news is nothing but garbage. How dare they think they are going to get rid of us. We will find a way to laugh at them.Fuck Faux!
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- LadybugLady
- 8 days ago
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at least we still have South Park
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- Incredulous
- 8 days ago
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So, this guy burns FOX news onto DVR's and then after picking the clips he wants, puts them up on the internet for discussion? I don't see how that is something that FOX can legally stop. If FOX was paid for by a subscription more specific than a generic cable bill then I could see that, but if this guy is just watching TV, recording it and then putting it up online, then I don't see how FOX can have a legal issue.
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- Varex_Sythe
- 8 days ago
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You must have full control of the catapult, before you catapult the propaganda.
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Gosh, who'd have 'thunk' that this conglomerate- owned by an Aussie (who in ALL his US media outlets tries to portray 'their image' as that of a chest-thumping flag waving U-S-A! American. BUT... funny then, that this same 'American' media outlet wants to ONLY have THEIR side put out to the public, THEIR version of 'AMERICA.'
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Rupert Murdoch cannot stop us! Where there is a will, there is a way! Truth will prevail despite these Fox guys!
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- Roseann_Schutz
- 8 days ago
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When was the last time Fox did ANYTHING right? They are pure evil!
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- NuclearLullaby
- 8 days ago
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Let me just make sure I have this straight- Fox is claiming copyright infringement exclusively on clips that could make them "look bad" or be used in liberal arguments, but not on other material?
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hey... waitaminiute... where are all the wingnuts?
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Too bad for Fox's advertisers, who were undoubtedly getting revenue via the liberals who watched the pirated clips.
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- Progresshiv
- 8 days ago
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Fox News has actually brought liberals and conservatives together with this move. Check out this comment from the original post:
"Hi, I just have to correct you on something here..I am the owner of the ConservativeNation channel mentioned in your post- and both myself and GlennBeckDailyClips have been effected by this. So far, I've lost everything going back two weeks. I don't think it's just a liberal thing- and I also don't think it's a Beck/Hannity/O'Reilly thing..they even took clips down I had up of Fox and Friends, Cavuto and even Fox News Sunday..I have to admit I'm a little ticked off right now. That was hard work putting together all that stuff. I feel very out of place amongst all you libs here, but we can definitely all agree that this really sucks."
Edit: As one of the updates to the original blog post points out, "the fact that these accounts didn't go down until after this article went up still suggests a preference for targeting liberal channels."
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- fountaingoats
- 8 days ago
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Bring it on biatches!
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- kennymotown
- 8 days ago
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Oh Fox, you never cease to amuse me and your fumble handed attempts at seeming legit.
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Here's an idea; everyone contact your cable or satellite providor and ask that FOX News channel be removed from your programming.
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Stupid move. This was their biggest marketing campaign ever, plus it was free. Morons.
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- JonRaymond
- 8 days ago
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Who the fuck wants to watch that shit anyway!
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Fox, schmocks. For that matter, every station. They're all writhing around desperately like a witch that's had water thrown on her head.
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- crispyfritters
- 8 days ago
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They have nothing on Obama who will use his position to hate on a group of people and justify it as ok.
You go Obama. You're skin protects you when you do so many stupid things. No wonder you won that Nobel Peace Prize. You're a Presidential catch.
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All part of Rupert Murdoch's desperate attempt to understand and control the intertoobz. Not going good so far.
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Could not be worse than Fox News the ANP propaganda maschine for racismn and nationalismn.
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As long as Rupert Murddoch doesn't team up with Charles Rose,Bizz Stone & Tom Anderson, I think the world is still okay,going to end! But okay!
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- NuclearLullaby
- 7 days ago
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