NBC Believes They Own Political Discourse

PoliSciASU writes "MSNBC has established draconian rules regarding the use of the Presidential Primary Debates on the internet. Some examples: '5. No excerpts may be aired after 8:30 pm on Saturday, May 26th. Excerpts may not be archived. Any further use of excerpts is by express permission of MSNBC only. 6. All debate excerpts must be taped directly from MSNBC's cablecast or obtained directly from MSNBC and may not be obtained from other sources, such as satellite or other forms of transmission. No portions of the live event not aired by MSNBC may be used.' Kevin Bondelli talks about why this is 'shameful and wrong'. Voters are missing out on the ability to actually have an engaged conversation about the candidates and their debate performances because of NBC's greed." Alexander Wolfe at InformationWeek and Jeff Jarvis at BuzzMachine share similar sentiments, and discuss the matter in different ways.

Comments

I blame the Irish

[Anonymous Coward]

A filthy Irishman was so drunk he beat *my* wife and kids!

I tried to stop him, but he was a policeman.

F*cking MSNBC...

[speedfreak_5]

Seriously, that's some bullshit stips they have there.

**WARNING: I am under the influence of alcohol at the moment, so if this doesn't make sense, f*ck it.**

The only times I watch MSNBC is when Keith Olbermann is on (which doesn't happen often since I don't have cable) or if i'm sleeping somewhere else other than my apartment and I want to pass out. MSNBC is going to find out the hard way that they can't control political exhibitions in this manner. They should be glad that they got to plaster their name all over the backgrounds of the videos that everyone uses, no matter what station they broadcast on or what website they show videos on. Everyone will see MSNBC. They should not even be allowed to have rules like that on something that should be freely accessible to EVERYONE since many of us live in this country.

Message to MSNBC: You're treading on thin ice with this shit. Play nice, please. Piss the citizens (who give a damn about this stuff) off and you will know about it.

Peace.