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- armynixon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36And then media types ask why youth are not as engaged in politics. Young people watch YouTube, not MSNBC.
- JCSaint, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22I'm young and I watch both. Though I'm not exactly representative of my demographic.
- mannymix03, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15why restrict it, if anything the debate should be posted on ALL major internet video sites, people need to know the candidates and be educated
- pjisback, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14How does this hurt MSNBC in any way? More people get informed and it's not like the video uploaders are editing out MSNBC's logo or anything. If anything, it's positive advertisement for their network as the place to go watch the presidential debates in the future. I for one didn't even know MSNBC was showing the debates until I saw it start popping up on youtube.
- khag7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Media restricts. Its what they do. Yes they expose things, but in doing so they seek to control their broadcasts and they restrict. Sad but true.
- DRINKxREDxBULL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Exactly. Stuff like this should be public domain.
- kushed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13This is not a sports event, its Political debate. MSNBC should realize that its not a right but a privilege for them to host the debated.
- DRINKxREDxBULL, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13@thebaron
The "25 other miscreants" (and I'm 23, so I know what most other 20-somthings are like) have no clue what is going, and shouldn't be voting at all. - Tazmaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11@thebaron,
Reconsider the situation. Intelligent, yet apathetic individuals are exactly the demographic that need targeting. There are enough idiots involved already. - bobcobb42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8MSNBC forgot what politics was all about.
But it didn't start with them. This country has forgotten that politics is more than Republican/Democrat, more than a handful of swing issues like gay marriage and abortion, more than who can amass the most campaign funding.
The revolution is coming. The status quo cannot endure for long. The disenfranchised youth of America will soon hold it's destiny in their hands. Our blood, our votes, our revolution. Let it be a bloodless conflict, for another civil war is not what we desire. Only freedom and a return to the ideals our founding Fathers put into place. - Beevo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8This is why I downloaded a torrent of the file and I sent copies to all my friends who wanted it. I can understand trying to restrict the sharing of movies, music, books...but politics and information should always be free. They showed the debate once and anyone who missed it is just supposed to watch them for THEIR opinion of it? No thanks, I'll make up my own mind after watching it for myself when I want to watch it.
- br0ck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Is this really that big a deal? There's 100+ videos labeled '2007 democratic debate' still up on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=2007+democratic+debate
- DRINKxREDxBULL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Yea, it is kind of stupid. They have a promo on MSNBC where some girl in a spelling bee spells "politics" as "MSNBC." This kind of undermines that whole thought.
- ablez3, on 10/12/2007, -11/+18***** THE RIAA!!
- thebaron2, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8@jcsaint
Young people who use phrases like "representative of my demographic" are not the ones we need to target to get out and vote.
Nothing against you and your intelligent ilk, but you're already much more likely to vote, unlike the 25 other miscreants you probably take classes with. THOSE guys need an extra little push out of the door and into the ballot booth. - harrier666, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Like Comedy Central where it belongs!
HA!
/humor (I would have said this about any party you specified.) - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4In other news, the fact that the media controls all public debate fails to show up in the news.
- DRINKxREDxBULL, on 10/12/2007, -7/+9Good thing they had the debate on MSNBC and not Fox. They were sooo worried that someone might ask them a tough question. But now, no one will be able to see the debate again.
- grobinson, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8MSNBC doesn't want it uploaded to Youtube or Video Google because that contributes to the traffic on their competitors websites. If youtube wants debates, they should sponsor a debate.
- MR77, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7The phase "MSNBC restricts," when talking about a political debate and the voting publics right to the information, scares me.
One nation under Gates, of the media, for the media and by the media. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Too bad the farts come out of her mouth. Useless monkey.
- kman2k1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's not like the debate had any intellectual property.
- bjornski, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2For being an import herself, she sure hates foreigners.
- clortho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The Presidential Job Interview
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/03/22/corporate_muzzling_of_politics.php
The Presidential Debates are essentially a job interview. There is no other job where the applicant gets to control the questions that will be asked, who will as the questions and the time of the interview. The Commission on Presidential Debates was actually created by the Republican and Democratic parties "to take over the presidential debates". - DRINKxREDxBULL, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Good thing they had the debate on MSNBC and not Fox. They were sooo worried that someone might ask them a tough question. But now, no one will be able to see the debate again. Good choice!!
I hope this make the Republicans pull their upcoming debate and put it on a different station. - theratdotus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2who are u guys voting for, im going for either krucinich, biden or obama, in that order
- stubear, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Jesus F'ing Christ people, it's a damn HTML link. How ***** hard is it to link to the MSNBC video file? If that's too difficult then perhaps you should not be surfing the internet, much less contributing content to it. Why should YouTube benefit financially form a production they had no part in? Google has a ***** of money, spend some of it to either license the content or host their own debate. Too ***** bad for YouTube if they don't want to do either. MSNBC hosts the video, therefore they are not limiting access to the content or hindering the public's ability to educate themselves about the candidates.
- scotticus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Just for that, I'm going to tie up a libertarian in my basement on election day.
- MadMax3000, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1VIVA HAITI!
Bitches! - demonsofgoetia, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2"MSNBC Sabotages Donahue
February 28, 2003" by Ralph Nader
"Monopolist Microsoft and oligopolist General Electric - the co-owners of MSNBC - took their highest rated show off the air and sent Phil Donahue away on February 25, 2003. After choosing Donahue to host his own 8pm daily show only six months ago, the corporate managers micromanaged, mismanaged and refused to let Phil Donahue be Phil Donahue."
http://www.nader.org/interest/022803.html - JayTee44, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Michelle Malkin is so f'ing hot...... I'm willing to bet anyone her farts actually smell good.
- RonPaulPres2008, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Mike Gravel and Ron Paul for office in 2008!!!!!!
- nixonrichard, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3"Good thing they had the debate on MSNBC and not Fox."
I know! I hate Fox and it's stupid free web videos. If it weren't for fox, the *real* fair and balanced networks, like CNN and MSNBC, would have been able to charge for web video and restrict its dissemination like they first tried to do. - MR77, on 10/12/2007, -13/+1The phase "MS NBC restricts," when talking about a political debate and the publics right to the information, scares me.
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