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   Anonymous Coward, Aug 17th, 2006 @ 4:47pm

   
   

   Original ideas or work about important issues would be too much to ask from reporters apparently.

    

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   Gavin, Aug 17th, 2006 @ 5:01pm

   
   

   MEH

   I tried watching that old guy, Peter's vids but they were boring and not unique in any way at all. Dull and lifeless. There is much more interesting user created content out there. This was just probably somebody who slacked off until right before deadline and needed a story pronto.

    

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   Kevin, Aug 17th, 2006 @ 5:03pm

   
   

   Right on.

   It's known as "silly season".
   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silly_season

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Aug 17th, 2006 @ 5:13pm

   
   

   He is 79 years old

    

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   Anonnymust, Aug 17th, 2006 @ 5:37pm

   
   

   The show "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" takes YouTube videos and broadcast them on their "Oddball" segment. It's amusing, really.

    

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   Davis Freeberg, Aug 17th, 2006 @ 6:55pm

   
   

   Isn't This Still Citizen Media?

   I dont' think that we should be criticizing reporters for reporting the social networks as much as congratulating them. Isn't part of the news covering what is popular and catching on? How is the media reporting You Tube videos any different, then TechDirt linking to someone elses article or blog?
   
   When mainstream reporters look towards the blogosphere or YouTube, it gives the ordinary citizen a chance to be heard, if what they have to say is powerful enough. This is what makes Digg so powerful, that the ordinary user can vote and it attracts broader coverage to the issue.
   
   This doesn't mean that we shouldn't see investigative journalism, but given the amount of content that newspaper's have to produce, it isn't realistic to expect them to not get inspiration for stories from what other journalists are writing about.
   
   Maybe this does beg the question of whether or not the mainstream coverage drove the hits or whether it was the community, but if the community wasn't impressed to begin with, then it wouldn't have caught a reporters radar.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Aug 17th, 2006 @ 7:47pm

   
   

   Alternative View

   Instead of "Bored Reporters Scouring YouTube For Anything Semi-Popular To Write About"
   
   How about: "Bored Bloggers Scouring Bored Reporters Scouring YouTube For Anything Semi-Popular To Write About for something to write about"

    

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   Chris Pike, Aug 17th, 2006 @ 9:27pm

   
   

   Why is this lazy journalism? It relates to a topic that's been perculatiing on NPR for weeks/months now (the Brit concept of "Chavs".) If you haven't seen it before, it's news to you. If you have, you need to get outside more often.

    

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   AdverseE, Aug 17th, 2006 @ 9:36pm

   
   

   And now Techdirt is covering the lazy journalists covering YouTube, including helpful links to the videos that are, apparently in the eyes of Techdirt, not newsworthy. Hmmmmm.

    

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    Damn..., Aug 17th, 2006 @ 10:49pm

    
    

    AdverseE lol...

    You beat me to the comment! grrrr....

     

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    Mike (profile), Aug 17th, 2006 @ 10:54pm

    
    

    Re: Isn't This Still Citizen Media?

    I dont' think that we should be criticizing reporters for reporting the social networks as much as congratulating them. Isn't part of the news covering what is popular and catching on? How is the media reporting You Tube videos any different, then TechDirt linking to someone elses article or blog?
    
    Davis, there's a difference between picking up on actual trends and just grabbing whatever video happens to be at the top of the popular list that day...

     

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    Mike (profile), Aug 17th, 2006 @ 10:56pm

    
    

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    And now Techdirt is covering the lazy journalists covering YouTube, including helpful links to the videos that are, apparently in the eyes of Techdirt, not newsworthy. Hmmmmm.
    
    Yup. But for a very good reason. It's an *interesting* and different story that reporters seem to suddenly be taking the top random video from youtube and writing up a whole article about it. Part of what we do here is media criticism, and this story certainly fits. However, you'll notice the focus of the two stories are totally different. The reporters are simply grabbing the top video and saying "look, this is interesting." What we did was pick up the actual trend and point that out. That's quite different.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Aug 18th, 2006 @ 6:23am

    
    

    This Just In!

    Bored Blog Commentor Comments on Bored Bloggers Blog about Bored Reporters Story about Bored Videoblogggers videoblogging about very boring things indeed.
    
    Film at 11.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Aug 18th, 2006 @ 6:30am

    
    

    Dual Headlining

    Over the past week or two, I have noticed several blog/news types of columns that contained two headlines. Well, one headline mentioning two stories.
    
    The first part of the headline was the main story, with the second part being a short blurb about a video, and of course, the video itself.
    
    Every time the headline was interesting, I read the story, realized it had nothing to do with the video, then watched the video.
    
    It was definitely a good way to drive visitors to the site, as it got me. repeatedly.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Aug 18th, 2006 @ 7:23am

    
    

    Re: Right on.

    Wikipedia sucks

     

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    Lay Person, Aug 18th, 2006 @ 8:31am

    
    

    So what?

    Who cares if reporters get news or events from YouTube.
    
    Sometimes that's more interesting than AOL digging for gold! Like that IS news? Please AOL has been digging for years.
    
    But a young audience attending a geriatric video/blog is quite interesting. Alot of kids don't have any adults who are concerned, let alone some 72 year old in England. In some small way he must be providing something for them that they can get no other way. Whether it's wisdom, advice, or just plain old nostalgia.
    
    YouTube is a mirror of society. If you don't like it or agree, it's thgere nonetheless and one cannot denie its popularity. Since the advent of YouTube, instead of knocking it, lets see what happens.

     

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    Sean, Aug 18th, 2006 @ 9:04am

    
    

    Social Reporting

    Reporters have always covered social events. I think it's cool that site's like YT have become apart of our social lives. Enough to be covered by the journalist.

     

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    mayea, Aug 22nd, 2006 @ 9:47am

    
    

    Re: Right on.

    ilike it

     

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