Monday, September 24, 2007

The power of Youtube-news

Telling that Youtube movies are very popular is nothing new. Also I can loose myself for few hours in watching some stupid, funny, intelligent youtube-movies on the platform. Yet it is remarkable how fast a youtube-movie circulates around the web and how fast digital news media implement that same video on their website.

A Youtube movie which shows a presenter who throws up live during the show was presented today on at least 5 Flemish digital newspapers: Standaard Online, HLN.be, Nieuwsblad.be and GVA.be/HBVL.be

Wonder how this goes ... suppose that Nieuwsblad.be copies that video from an international newspaper or directly from Youtube ... a journalist from GVA.be sees that ... decides to copy the movie on their site ... journalist of Standaard.be sees the movie on both sites and thinks he/she are missing lots of potential online visitors and as a consequence decides to copy the movie. Hope this copy-behavior does not happen with important political/cultural/economical/environmental news ... in print, I'm sure it is not the case, but what with online news where copying is soooo easy? I don't know, maybe some online journalist can ease my mind.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

But it is the case in print, i am afraid. Online media made this just much more visible.

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