YouTube Removal Highlights Media Self-Censorship

Posted by Zonk on Friday November 10, 2006 @06:43AM from the power-to-the-people-marty dept.

jamie writes "On 'Larry King Live' Wednesday night, Bill Maher said many of 'the people who really run the underpinnings of the Republican Party are gay... Ken Mehlman, OK, there's one I think people have talked about. I don't think he's denied it.' When CNN re-aired the interview, the mention of Mehlman was edited out with no indication anything was missing. When a minute-long video of the original vs. censored clips was posted on YouTube, a DMCA takedown removed it (the original poster plans to resubmit a shorter clip he hopes will qualify as fair use — good luck, since the DMCA doesn't recognize fair use). Relatedly, the Washington Post today was caught silently editing its published stories to make them less informative. Unnamed GOP officials are also saying that Mehlman will step down from his post when his term ends in January."

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I declare a new tag by the_skywise · 2006-11-10 06:49 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Propoganda.

Seriously is this what Slashdot has come down to? Get your ideological news up so long as you can spin it into a technology issue?

"I just got an instant message from some [POLITICALLY DESPISED GROUP#27]. In case you didn't know [POLITICALLY DESPISED GROUP#27] believes in [IDEA#3] and [CONCEPT#14] and lately they've [GOSSIP#4], [MUDSLINGING#99]... shouldn't we all hate [POLITICALLY DESPISED GROUP#27] when they send spam?"

Zonk: That's a good point, whaddy'all think?!
Re:WTF by John+Nowak · 2006-11-10 11:16 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Note: I am not a republican, nor a demacrat.

Nor literate. Lol.