I'll Be Watching You

Wow...news to me.

Videos on the internet

It's good to see that the BC Fed and their portal 'the Tyee' are keeping track of the latest cutting edge trends.

Maybe someone should drop a email to them and mention that some cell phones also have cameras and play music and all sorts of things!!

That would just fry their little minds.

...and to think that the brainiacs of BC Labour are the brain trust of the BC NDP...sorta explains a lot.

"Maybe someone..."?
You are someone are you not?
Fill your boots.

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"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."

William Blake

but what's the point? <br />
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They are mostly the 'sons and daughters' of Labour, fresh from Langara Community College, trying to learn how to get that ad-friendly style, so loved by the corporate media whose current and former employees can be found all over Tyee.<br />
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Fuck dude ... I don't buy internet access to read the drivel of such Canadian Giants© Crawford Killian, Rafe Mair, Terry Glavin or Murray Dobbin...also I am pretty damn sure that the aged and old unionist would probably much prefer a interesting site that might actually appeal to them...one that wouldn't include moronic writing exercises like "Japan 's Iconic Teen Song' or some speculation as to whether movies might implanted in the brain interspliced with the odd bit about the Victoria municipal strike.<br />
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Tyee is a shining example of what NOT to do with your webpage; constantly reminding your readers that your webpage is really just a worthless newspaper with boring columnists that can't be distributed even for free because it would go out of business in ten seconds flat.<br />
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Look at their priorities with index listing:<br />
# HOME<br />
# BOOKS<br />
# ENTERTAINMENT<br />
# LIFE<br />
# MUSIC PICKS<br />
# MEDIACHECK<br />
# NEWS<br />
# PHOTO ESSAY<br />
# PODCASTS<br />
# SPORTS<br />
# TODAY'S BIG STORY<br />
# VIDEO<br />
# VIEWS<br />
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It's a fucking newspaper. Sports? Music Picks? Notice 'news' is way down the list. Notice 'views' (I think they mean comments) is last...so much for that 'interactive' aspect of the web. So much for that 'truth telling to power' crap that is usually spewed by unProgressive phonies.<br />
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It's an unimaginative joke created by boring conservative out of touch corporatists who quite clearly have ignored the development of the internet, the economy, the union movement, the Left, etc etc.<br />
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It seems like an expensive scam where some FED 'unionists' have tricked a bunch of old folks out of their cash by suggesting that the movement really needs a 'net presence'....hopefully one that talks a lot about Daft Punk, Led Zep and Celine Dion (all stories featured currently on their front page as of this date)<br />
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So knock yourself out and be a good Canadian and don't ask too many questions...<br />
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Here's bonus reading for you...another 'view' on the emerging video culture:<br />
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"Looking back on 2007, we can see the year as a sequence of victories posted on YouTube. The year started with Saddam Hussein’s execution on computer screens the morning of New Years day, 2007. The continuing exploits of Vancouver’s Anti-Poverty Committee are posted for the world to see the unjust persecution of this brave band of activists. Footage of other police brutalities like taser incidents and murders have updated the public on police corruptions. And the state itself was exposed as corrupt when YouTube was used to expose undercover government agents inciting violence at the protest against the secret SPP summit in Montebello Quebec. All in all, it’s been a year of awakenings to just how inadequate the main stream media is compared to the free media of independent minds."<br />
<a href="http://republic-news.org/archive/180-repub/180_dodds.html">http://republic-news.org/archive/180-repub/180_dodds.html</a><br />
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It's OK to go there -- it's from a newspaper that a guy who owns a bookstore distributes on his OWN without stealing money from decent union people and then telling them that they should really interested in Daft Punk instead of economic collapse.<br />
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Go back and read both those pieces again...the anarcho-libertarian that puts out his opinion on his OWN nickel talks about Canada and the local struggles...the Tyee spends most of it's time talking about the US and uses terms like video vigilantism...as in "But while these video vigilantes are gaining power, it's still risky business."<br />
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Is gaining power, democratization? <br />
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Notice the usual corporate conditional as caveat; "risky business"...the veiled threat to the public that democracy shouldn't get too out of control. The smugness of one one who truly believes that the corporate media has a role in democracy when in fact it is utterly and completely opposed to any form of democracy and regularly uses and abuses 'fodder' from the Internet to scare the public and undermine democracy. <br />
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This moron thinks that adding 'reality' videos to the corporate news format is going to produce something beneficial.<br />
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Well the shocking video of 5 camp guards killing a kid in a Florida Youth prison didn't have any impact, as all those guys walked free. So much for the bold statement of gaining power...sure the power to make people angry and pissed and then hopeless when things they see with their own eyes are never translated into justice and scum killers walk free. The problem isn't video distribution and efficiencies; the problem is corruption at the highest and lowest levels of our countries that is directly related to the same media corporate structure these kids at Tyee/Babble would give their eye teeth to work for . <br />
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Well it hasn't yet, so why would one THINK at this point the M$M would do anything but 'spin' controversial 'videos' which is does constantly -- the YVR killing is proof of that. Hell the corporate media has miles of 9/11 footage it already owns, but doesn't show it because it might make the victims of 9/11 feel bad. <br />
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This is a writer that is completely deluded and has NOT been paying attention to either the Internet or the M$M. <br />
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Look at this statement:<br />
"Given that audiences are itching to watch the amateur footage, many sousveillants are starting to ask why media outlets aren't working harder to protect sousveillants' interests and digitally arm them to the teeth."<br />
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Huh? Well audiences are watching (obviously), but apparently the distribution is not good enough? According to this idiot, the corporate media should be doing more to assimilate the video journalist and I suppose turn them into a profit center. Build higher corporate viewer ship? Sell more cable packages...etc etc. <br />
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Radical forward thinking shit that Tyee.<br />
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I'll stick to the good old DIY approach -- that why I read your comments...but if you prefer that I read retarded corporate apologias from some 'progressive' dunderhead working out of another union front called Babble then OK...I'll stop reading your low-rent efforts to get your opinions out and stick with the good old six o clock news who will have some old guy tell me all about how 'what I am seeing with my own eyes' in some amateur video shouldn't be taken seriously and is only one piece to the puzzle in a long investigation, blah blah blah. <br />
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The point is the same point and you can be the “someone” because it is your observation. Carry through on it, tell them, or vent where and when ya want Unless of course your suggestion is rhetorical and then it all becomes pointless, does it not?
(I love answering questions with questions)

I have no preferences of how or what you do or don’t do what’s the point

And thanks for the giggle, a good tirade will either cleanse the mind or reinforce more of the same, or it will not.


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"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."

William Blake