If it can’t find a solution, Google should kill YouTube

by Don Reisinger

Do you remember the good ol’ days of YouTube? Back when a private company owned it and you could post and view whatever you wanted up there and no one would say a word because, well, it was practically bankrupt and copyright owners knew they wouldn’t get anything out of a lawsuit? Those were the days, weren’t they?

Now, after a $1.65 billion buyout by Google, YouTube is not only a veritable junkyard for all the crap we didn’t watch a couple years ago, but a bloated mess that costs too much to operate, has a huge lawyer target on it, and barely incurs revenue.

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For all the people who think YouTube is the answer.

Thanks to Rev Dan Catt

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Rupert Murdoch and his on-air bully Bill O’Reilly launched a laughable attack against Free Press, the media reform movement, and quality journalism everywhere.

The O’Reilly ambush is typical Fox News fare. Murdoch uses his media empire to attack his political foes and — not to inform citizens or tell the truth. The fight for media reform is about regular people like you and me fighting undue corporate control of the media. This kind of abuse of media power aggravates progressives and conservatives alike.

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The conf I was at recently I Interviewed the news crew that shot this “report”.

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