NBC Believes They Own Political Discourse 259
PoliSciASU writes "MSNBC has established draconian rules regarding the use of the Presidential Primary Debates on the internet. Some examples: '5. No excerpts may be aired after 8:30 pm on Saturday, May 26th. Excerpts may not be archived. Any further use of excerpts is by express permission of MSNBC only. 6. All debate excerpts must be taped directly from MSNBC's cablecast or obtained directly from MSNBC and may not be obtained from other sources, such as satellite or other forms of transmission. No portions of the live event not aired by MSNBC may be used.' Kevin Bondelli talks about why this is 'shameful and wrong'. Voters are missing out on the ability to actually have an engaged conversation about the candidates and their debate performances because of NBC's greed." Alexander Wolfe at InformationWeek and Jeff Jarvis at BuzzMachine share similar sentiments, and discuss the matter in different ways.
first post? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Fair Use (Score:5, Funny)
Grrr. Fair Use! [wikipedia.org]
What is this crap in American Idol's timeslot? (Score:3, Funny)
Dubya is NBC's President? (Score:3, Funny)
Is he related to FUD-ya?
Re:These debates are a waste of space now anyway (Score:4, Funny)
Re:These debates are a waste of space now anyway (Score:3, Funny)
But I agree; the level of anti-intellectualism in the US is astounding. To think that we're somehow a first-world country despite that is quite amazing in its own regard.