Local News Hits YouTube
By Don | August 3, 2009
It was bound to happen sooner or later. Local news is now avialble on YouTube from various sources.
From the New York Times
With its ability to collect articles and sell advertisements against them, Google has already become a huge force in the news business — and the scourge of many newspapers. Now its subsidiary YouTube wants to do the same thing to local television.
YouTube, which already boasts of being “the biggest news platform in the world,” has created a News Near You feature that senses a user’s location and serves up a list of relevant videos. In time, it could essentially engineer a local newscast on the fly. It is already distributing hometown video from dozens of sources, and it wants to add thousands more.
YouTube says it is helping TV stations and its other partners by creating a new — but so far not fiscally significant — source of revenue.
Just like blogging turned thousands of people into would be journalists the movement to povide local news will do much of the same for the broadcast side. As long as the professionals are handling this we can expect a decent quality production but once more ordinary citizens try their hand at this the more uneven this reporting will be and more subject to the whims of the individuals involved.
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Statement from article:
“...As long as the professionals are handling this we can expect a decent quality production but once more ordinary citizens try their hand at this the more uneven this reporting will be and more subject to the whims of the individuals involved…”
Right! Like buying prescription drugs from some peddlar in a back alley somewhere. Now, we’ll be able to “get the news with choice of bias” on the black market, too!
More garbage.