Fox News Purges YouTube Of Its Videos

Fox News has purged YouTube of hundreds of clips of its programs from power-users such as News1News, ConservativeNation, and GlennBeckDailyClips.

The YouTubers had supplied online media outlets with clips of Fox News programs, leaving many online outlets with videos that do not load.

Fox News had first requested the closure of News1News — which is seen as a progressive YouTube channel — leading many on the internet to cry that the cable news network was censoring the left while allowing the conservative news channels to remain up and running:

But Fox News' move appears to be limited to News1News, while other YouTube channels -- those viewed as having conservative leanings -- remain untouched. Chen points out that the Glenn Beck Daily Clips channel continues to operate, although it features 614 clips, as of last count, of Glenn Beck's Fox show. The Conservative Nation channel, with close to 200 clips, is also still online.

Thus, Fox's move will mostly affect stories posted on progressive-leaning blogs, such as Gawker, the Huffington Post and Truthdig, while leaving intact YouTube clips embedded at conservative Web sites. Instead of embedded video, visitors to those sites will now see a notice stating that the video in question is "no longer available."

Friday, however, sites like ConservativeNation and GlennBeckDailyClips received their notices and their accounts were suspended.

Comments

[JPospichal]

OMG. Whoever wrote the post alluding to 1984 by Orwell was right on. Everyday, Winston has to delete old news and "update" it with "new" facts, often completely opposing the old ones. This is exciting!

[KarlaElisa]

Sure would like to see the Yes Men tackle this one....

[CynAnne]

Wow, this is a stunning loss for Youtube, as well as the rest of teh internet-using Americans, being denied access to the 'Fair and Balanced' views o' Faux..! *uber-eyeroll* ;) ...

[lilnyc]

*they're*

[lilnyc]

Too late. Everybody knows their the BIGOT channel.

[nexxtep54]

Kind of nice, this. Like summer without mosquitoes.

[MadMoll]

I suggest that huffpo and the others use this:
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/publications/fair_use_in_online_video/
since, it's all about FAIR USE

[psmarc93]

"Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia!" Winston has been pretty busy these days at FOX.

[indi1216]

I guess Faux news has gone c.o.m.m.u.­n.i.s.t...­.control of content and censorship. I guess that is what they called fair and balance as long it is only fair to them.

[Indon]

So, corporate dystopia much? When a government official says the obvious truth, people are told it's a suppression of free speech. When a corporation literally suppresses the truth... what happens?

[POLINUT]

I just visited YouTube. Smells a whole lot better over there now.

[endlessirony]

They are probably tired of people keeping track of their lies and using it against them, how dare they use their own words against them.

[Cane2theLeft]

Down the memory hole they go...

[stagebandman]

Now, if only we could purge the airwaves of Fox News!!!!!!

[Matt Osborne - Huffpost Blogger]

Faux Noise is trying to erase the permanent record, but they will fail. "Can't stop the signal"