EveryJoe » Blunty3000 http://www.everyjoe.com Sports News - Tech Reviews - Entertainment - Life Tips for EveryJoe Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:38:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 YouTube Did Not Beat Up Victoria Lindsay http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/youtube-did-not-beat-up-victoria-lindsay-184/ http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/youtube-did-not-beat-up-victoria-lindsay-184/#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:11:20 +0000 Mike Abundo http://www.insideonlinevideo.com/2008/04/11/youtube-did-not-beat-up-victoria-lindsay/ Post from: EveryJoe

YouTube Did Not Beat Up Victoria Lindsay

]]> I sympathize with the family of Victoria Lindsay, the girl who was brutally beaten by eight classmates on video. Nevertheless, I must call bullshit on the mass media’s inordinate focus on the fact that the video was posted on YouTube. I have yet to see any of these mass media outlets acknowledge that YouTube actually removed the video.

The way the story’s being told in the mass media, it’s as if YouTube made those kids do what they did. News flash: those kids will be tried as adults. Even the law recognizes that they are fully responsible for their actions, not YouTube or MySpace or anything else.

Offline media holds an inherent, commercially-motivated bias against online media. As Nate “Blunty3000″ Burr here explains, that bias is now rearing its ugly head.

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YouTube Did Not Beat Up Victoria Lindsay

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