OK, not exactly.
But like NBC with the Narnia rap, C-SPAN is cutting off its nose to spite its face by forcing YouTube and IFILM to pull Colbert clips from the White House Correspondents dinner from their Web sites.
C-SPAN then allowed Google to post the video because “it agreed to post video of the entire dinner, and to include a link to C-SPAN’s Web site.”
Um … nobody wants to watch the whole dinner. If they did, it would already be posted on YouTube.
So C-SPAN’s idea of public service is to encourage people to eat their vegetables and watch portions of the event they don’t want to watch? Nah … this one’s about control — or the illusion thereof.
Tags: C-Span, Colbert, Dallas social media, dallas social media marketing
Not only is C-SPAN unaware of the current climate, but it is implimenting a rival brand of truthiness via its own release about the Google agreement, claiming that denying rights to other outlets will “increase the Colbert event’s free availability.” They clearly don’t get it.
More at: http://churchnstatement.blogspot.com/