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Sarah Palin. Or is it? She has a very convincing mimic in Tina Fey. Can you spot the real VP-in-waiting?
Published: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:46:17 GMT - Source: News.Bbc.Co.Uk - Read the articleEuropeYouTube in talks with Hollywood to show free full-length films
The video website YouTube is preparing to link up with Hollywood to show full-length films for free over the internet, it has emerged.The site - already used by millions of people every day to watch short video clips - confirmed that it was in negotiations with major studios as it gets ready to launch an online movie service. "Our goal is to offer maximum choice for our users, partners and advertisers," the company said in a statement.Free films, running with advertising, would mark a radical advance for the video-sharing website as it looks to profit from its massive popularity.It is not clear which Hollywood studios are involved in the discussions. But one report from the CNET news website suggested a YouTube movie service could arrive within 90 days.The development is part of a drive to increase profits at the video website, which has struggled to meet financial expectations since Google bought it for $1.65bn in 2006. YouTube contributors can now run advertising over their videos or add links to music and DVDs sales from iTunes and Amazon. A movie deal would also build on a recent agreement with the TV network CBS whereby the broadcaster's shows are screened online, with advertising, in return for a share of the revenue.The decision to link up with the film industry is also driven by rival moves by websites which already show full-length films and high-quality TV. The BBC's iPlayer has shown more than 160m programmes in the past year, and Hulu, a website backed by the American networks NBC and Fox, which has a vast library of TV programmes and films, has rocketed in popularity since it launched last year.The internet retailer Amazon has also started streaming some films on IMDb.com, the UK-based online film database that it bought 10 years ago. The developments tap into the move towards on-demand viewing rather than traditional scheduling, according to Jon Gibs, vice president of the ratings company Nielsen Online. "Consumers are increasingly relying on the web to catch up on content they missed when it aired on television, and the networks are beginning to capitalise on this trend." He said, as an example, that "anyone who didn't see Tina Fey's impersonation of Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live had to log on and watch it or risk having nothing to say around the proverbial water cooler".For Hollywood, the change reflects shifting patterns of behaviour. Although DVD sales remain relatively strong, with sales worth more than £2bn in the UK last year, recent figures from the research group Ipsos suggest that TV now accounts for just 55% of all video watched by teenagers. Not all of Hollywood is likely to be joining forces with YouTube, however. Paramount and DreamWorks are unlikely to sign up since the website is locked in a billion-dollar lawsuit with their parent firm, Viacom, over allegations that YouTube encouraged copyright infringement.YouTubeDigital mediaUnited Statesguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
Published: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:04:31 GMT - Source: Guardian.Co.Uk - Read the articleIssuesOn PBS, Cokie Roberts falsely suggested Biden's reference to "Bosniaks" was a gaffe
During coverage of
the October 2 vice-presidential
debate on PBS' Charlie Rose, Rose asked,
"Did either of them make any mistakes that you noticed?" National Public Radio
senior news analyst Cokie Roberts responded that Sen. Joe Biden "talked about
the Bosniaks." Roberts later said: "[I]f [Gov. Sarah Palin] had said 'Bosniak,' everybody would be making a big deal of it, you know." In fact,
Biden correctly referred to certain residents of Bosnia and Herzegovina as Bosniaks.
According to the U.S. State
Department, as of 2002, the
population of Bosnia and Herzegovina consisted
of the following ethnic groups: "Bosniak 48.3%, Serb
34.0%, Croat 15.4%, others 2.3%."
The CIA World Factbook states:
"Bosniak has replaced Muslim as an ethnic term in part to avoid confusion with
the religious term Muslim --
an adherent of Islam."
In a May 11 speech, U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia and
Herzegovina Charles English repeatedly referenced "Bosniaks" and said: "Bosniak
political leaders must examine their own their political conduct within
governing institutions, particularly where they are the majority, and ask
themselves, is this conduct assuaging concerns among other ethnic groups about
domination or contributing to it?"
Biden said
during the debate:
Look what we did in Bosnia.
We took Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks, being told by everyone, I was told by
everyone that this would mean that they had been killing each other for a
thousand years, it would never work. There's a relatively stable government
there now as in Kosovo.
From October 2 broadcast of PBS' Charlie Rose:
ROSE: Did either of them make any
mistakes that you noticed?
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN (presidential historian): I didn't really see any
gaffes, nor were there many Tina Fey moments, or what might come on Saturday Night Live. The only one might be
when she asked what might trigger a nuclear war, and she went into, "A nuclear
war, that's the be-all and the end-all. That's bad. A lot of people, gone." I
can see them using that as a moment, but other than that, no, they both handled
everything pretty well.
ROBERTS: He talked about the
Bosniaks.
ROSE: The Bosniaks, yes.
ROBERTS: The Bosniaks. If she had
said --
GOODWIN: Oh, and there was McKiernan
versus McClellan, the name of the general in Afghanistan.
ROBERTS: If she had said "Bosniak,"
everybody would be making a big deal of it, you know.
GOODWIN: Correct.
ROSE: Yeah, and some people took
note of the fact that Senator Biden didn't correct at that point as a suggestion
of his restraint during the entire debate.
Published: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:10:37 GMT - Source: Mediamatters.Org - Read the article
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