Google and YouTube: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss?
Is the old mainstream media monolith being digitally rebuilt?
The travails of Michelle Malkin, other conservatives, and those speaking out against Islamofascism at YouTube are becoming well-known, and appalling.
The combination of BizzyBlog Internet Wall of Shame member Google with YouTube could be an early indicator of the formation of a digital replacement to the old “Mainstream Media” firewall that prevented a lot of thinking outside the liberal box before the odiously misnamed “Fairness Doctrine” went away. If searchers can’t find you and YouTube/Google Video won’t display you (there’s little reason to believe that Yahoo! or other search engines will be more open), your access to the rest of the world will be artificially limited vs. those who have politically correct content. The only solution will be to set up viable alternatives of both. It can be done, but it would be a huge challenge that shouldn’t be necessary.
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UPDATE: Isn’t that special? The YouTube vid that Michelle linked to at the end of this post “has been removed due to terms of use violation.” Her latest on Google’s campaign giving patterns and other related matters is here.
UPDATE 2: Patterico is upset at the cheap-shot journalistic style and the ‘fraidy-cat hypocrisy of the New York Times piece linked above, as he should be.
UPDATE 3: Professor Bainbridge is speculating, as I did above that an attempted politically-correct chokelhold by Google-YouTube might give rise to a competitor, a rough equivalent to what caused Fox News to come along in the cable-news world. Well, Fox DOES own MySpace, which would appear to be a pretty good platform from which to launch a video service.
UPDATE 4: Mark Cuban still thinks Google is crazy. Some of his commenters think he is.
