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Google Launches YouTube Newswire To Verify Eyewitness Videos

Posted by samzenpus on from the like-you-were-there dept.

An anonymous reader writes: YouTube has started a video news service to showcase the most interesting clips recorded and posted by eyewitnesses at events unfolding around the world. In partnership with the social news group Storyful, YouTube Newswire will be "a curated feed of the most newsworthy eyewitness videos of the day, which have been verified by Storyful's team of editors," a blog post said. Cnet reports: "In addition to the newswire, YouTube on Thursday announced two other projects that have to do with eyewitness journalism. One of the projects, called the First Draft Coalition, will serve as an educational resource for journalists — helping them to verify eyewitness videos and consider the ethics of using them in stories. The other is a partnership with the Witness Media Lab, focused on eyewitness videos having to do with human rights issues."

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  1. Do Not Want by drinkypoo · · Score: 2

    Officially vetted videos will become the only place most journalists will look, and a way to effectively help bury stories inconvenient to the establishment, under NSL so they can't tell us.

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    "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
    1. Re:Do Not Want by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Interesting

      How about you round up a million or two people and park yourselves around the government buildings until they change?

      Because the water cannons and the sound cannons and microwave cannons and tear gas and bean bag guns and so on come out long before the change. Take a look at what happens to the WTO protests here every time. Barely reported, massive military-style response.

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      "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
  2. Re:How does it deal with bias? by Demonoid-Penguin · · Score: 2

    How does this service deal with bias?

    Flawed logic?
    Q. How do you determine a biased news service? A. Be a discerning reader/viewer.
    Q. How do you deal with a biased news service? A. You don't - it just encourages them. Redirect your views to an unbiased news service. (watching Fox and reading the Murdock press only makes them worse).

    Outsourcing responsibility is the mother of all stupidity i.e. if you rely on "news" to give an impartial and balanced insight into world events you just might be doing it wrong. Complaining about them is like complaining about Apple - they have plenty of happy customers, they aren't going to change unless the competition starts eating into their revenue.