Fox News Rules YouTube - Well, Sorta

[DToTheJ]

In a recent study, the top American news organization of which content was posted on YouTube was Fox News. However, "more than half were posted by viewers, not Fox, and were critical of the comments."
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/487142-Pew_Fox_News_Clips_Get_YouTube_Spotlight.php

I find it ironic that Fox will stop at nothing to yank a user-posted clip of a show from the Fox broadcast network off YouTube, but thousands of such Fox News clips stay online.

 

[BlueWanderer]

I find it ironic that Fox will stop at nothing to yank a user-posted clip of a show from the Fox broadcast network off YouTube, but thousands of such Fox News clips stay online.

Some of the shows that air on Fox aren't owned by them. For example, House which is owned by NBC Universal/Universal Television. The Fox News clips they either see as free advertisement or that they're not paying much attention to them.

 

[DToTheJ]

True, but Fox takes much offense to Fox-produced shows uploaded without their consent. Remember when someone posted audio of a telephone message left by Nancy Cartwright inviting people to join the Church of Scientology, and it was yanked from YouTube because it included pictures - pictures - of Bart Simpson, whose voice Cartwright provides on Fox's "The Simpsons"?

 

[nathannah]

I find it ironic that Fox will stop at nothing to yank a user-posted clip of a show from the Fox broadcast network off YouTube, but thousands of such Fox News clips stay online.

Using news channel clips with commentary or critical detail meets fair use, and none of the news channels want to look like free-speech suppressors in asking that a clip get pulled down (though I don't blame them for getting annoyed when a segment of their show is used in a political ad).

The Cartwright was probably just a little more than the pictures (they sure hurt), but probably a right to privacy and no way to give permission for use of her voice in the phone call because it was a recorded message, which as those in the 90's might remember, nearly did in Linda Tripp.

 

[LKellerIII]

I find it ironic that Fox will stop at nothing to yank a user-posted clip of a show from the Fox broadcast network off YouTube, but thousands of such Fox News clips stay online.

Some of the shows that air on Fox aren't owned by them. For example, House which is owned by NBC Universal/Universal Television. The Fox News clips they either see as free advertisement or that they're not paying much attention to them.

Yes, and Fox (News Corp) produces shows that run on other networks. The other networks (particularly CBS) also produce shows that run on other networks. That is the nature of network television these days.

The Fox News Channel is a favorite target of ridicule for John Stewart, and to a lesser extent, Steven Colbert - and they both run a lot of FNC clips. There may be some "fair use" rule here - I'm not sure - but they are only clips, after all, not any entire Fox broadcast.

 

[BlueWanderer]

The Fox News Channel is a favorite target of ridicule for John Stewart, and to a lesser extent, Steven Colbert...

This is why I stop watching The Daily Show years ago. To clarify, I'm not a fan of Fox News at all. I merely got sick of hearing about that channel every night the show was on.

Yes, I did completely forget to mention "fair "use" earlier.

 

[Ultimajock]

...is there anything on the NewsCrap-owned opinion networks that they don't actually own? Perhaps the simulcast of Don Imus' radio show, which I believe is either a Cumulus-owned property or Imus' own production company leases it to them...

 

[DToTheJ]

When Fox Business (TV home of Imus) used to carry Dave Ramsey's show, I believe that was all him and his company. It was a video version of his nationally syndication radio show (just like Imus, only pre-recorded).