CNN’s cover-up and “fair use” abuse
Unhinged CNN reporter Susan Roesgen is on “vacation” after scrapping with Tea Party protesters last week, but her bosses are still hard at work trying to stifle Tea Party voices of dissent. As many of you know, CNN forced the takedown of behind-the-scenes video shot by Andrew Marcus of Founding Bloggers and posted to YouTube. Founding Bloggers has sent and published an open letter to the cable network requesting that the video (which has aired on other TV networks without retribution) be restored:
In short, we suspect that you are harassing us because our product was popular, because we are small, and because you can. We conclude, with some amusement, that your conduct tends to lend validity to the least flattering stereotypes associated with your organization. We live in the era of the internet – it is not so easy to silence people these days, as you will discover. In the final analysis, you will have become the butt of your own joke.
Should you prefer to avoid this fate, we will, of course, welcome the return of our production to its rightful spot – and the 3000+ viewer generated comment-opinions, both in support and in opposition, regarding it. Alternatively, should you prefer to continue on your current course of intimidation and censorship, we will endeavor to counter your actions.
In short, withdraw your fraudulent DMCA claim against our production, and instruct You Tube to restore the clip.
CNN is engaging in blatant abuse of the DMCA to stifle free speech under the guise of “fair use.” Been there, done that. Hot Air successfully fought off a bogus takedown from the bullies at Universal Music Group. I hope the Founding Bloggers do the same — and shame the censors at CNN for eternity.
Patterico recommends an “I am Spartacus” approach. Grab a copy of the forbidden video and post it yourself on YouTube. I’ve posted the video CNN doesn’t want you to see on my account, too:
Patterico also has more background on Susan Roesgen and her bogus reporting on the Jena 6.
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Chap:
Your entire premise is flawed as proven by the data you provided on the “off air mike”.
Cavuto asked some one elses opinion on whether the expected 5000 had showed up. The verbal response was an emphatic “more”. Add to that response the unseen visual body language and that can most reasonably explain the difference in the numbers he chose to present on air.
You have created a whole argument and accusation of lying by first mis-representing the question asked by Cavuto as a statement.
Pllleeeassseee, go away until you know the difference and start using honest representative of the events that occurred before forming an opinion and respresenting it as a valid argument.
By your own data, Cauvuto never said that he thought the number to be much smaller and yet you claim he did and based your whole distracting argument and further attack of FNC on the false premise.
He asked a question. Thats a big difference from making a statement.
Obfuscation?
I am responding directly and on point to a comment made by one of the presumably “non-trolls” here about the supposed unbiased nature of Fox News reporting.
No one seems to mind “off topic” until it becomes a subject uncomfortable to the general sensibilities of the board. Then the screams of Obfuscation! and Derailing! ring to high heaven.
The topic of the post itself, as Mookie alluded to is boring and uncontroversial. Of course they have no right to pull the video. Of course this falls squarely under fair use. Of course CNN is embarrassed and trying to protect its reporter. Of course, they are a big name and hope the threat of suit, even without merit, is enough to cower YouTube.
Jamie, you cannot be that stupid/pathetic. He asked the Pproducer’s opinion, and then said (mind you before the producer provided any response):
“CAVUTO: There’s gotta’ be 5,000.”
How is that not a statement by Cavuto? One which, by the way the producer generally agreed with.
Stop being such a Cavuto lapdog. One can kinda sorta see where one would go from “5,000 maybe more” to saying 5, 6 maybe 7 thousand. But to jump from what he said to making a claim of “at least 10,000 and possibly 15,000 defies credulity. Much like your pitiful rationalizations.
I understand that Obama overlooked the event as inconsequential. Why am I not surprised.
It seems I can’t escape the White House folks. VP Biden showed up at my daughter’s rowing regatta in Virginia to watch his own granddaughter row in the Sidwell Friends novice 8+ boat. Of course, Secret Service SUVs delayed spectators trying to leave the regatta at its conclusion. Joe must have heard there were as an abundance of Republican families at the event (politics aside, I hope his granddaughter enjoyed a great day on the race course). Needless to say, I did not seek out his autograph, photo, or advice.
It got you on topic.
Mission accomplished.
Ditto that. Get over yourself PB.
Go to your room.
Is that where I am to receive the 30 lashes or am I just to wait there for further instructions?
No lashes. Please just think about how many people are impacted by these tragic mistakes, many of them children…
Thank you for the fair kind words Chap
My response is that they were formulating an opinion collectively, and you presented this as “The fact that he had said not 10 minutes before that he thought the number to be much smaller”.
This constitutes a dishonest representation of the events that transpired.
Question: Do you every enter a conversation with one point of view, but leave with an opposing point of view?
In an honest debate this is the normal result when additional facts are revealed.
Too funny!
Which is why it is so strange for Cavuto to be disningenuous.
But point taken. And nice search abilities.
Because you’re debating a liberal, and their main tactic is to avoid the substance of the discussion by going around in meaningless and illogical circles, trying to get you frustrated and annoyed. You’ve handled it nicely.
I apologize for the mis-spelling, many people are impacted by these tragic mistakes, many of them children…
On April 20th, 2009 at 2:37 pm, chapoutier said:
Your entire argument is made null and void because you misspelled the word disingenuous.
Where’s Mr. Lemmiwinks when you need him, Mr. Slave?
I see your anal fetish is still going strong.
Try to keep it to yourself, or at least keep Aunt Bee (not Bea, btw. Odd you would misspell that considering your obsession over her as well) out of it this time.
On April 20th, 2009 at 3:02 pm, chapoutier said:
Bea Arthur is hot in the world of progressives.
Just trying to make you feel at home by hanging up a few things from your world.
From an update (in the info) of the vid posted by user fearblocke at You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6xWGvdRQ9Q
UPDATE: Woman in Video confronting the CNN Reporter has posted a response on why she did it: http://smartgirlpolitics.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?user=248xfs0bsym3j
“I am the woman scolding the reporter in the video for her ridiculous confrontation with the protesters, and her biased reporting. Something that all of us conservatives must remember is that the left-wing media will do whatever it takes to marginalize us, degrade us, and disenfranchise us. Although I didn’t know that a blogger was videotaping the whole thing, I am glad that he did. I’m also glad that this video has gained so much exposure on Fox and the internet. All of us conservatives must continue to educate ourselves on the media lies and distortions, and we MUST stay informed on what the government is doing to us. When our liberal friends and relatives accuse us once again that we didn’t complain when Bush was overspending and piling up debt, we must answer them. I routinely remind liberals that the Obama administration isn’t just doing what Bush did, he’s quadrupling what Bush did! I didn’t agree with the debt we were piling up during the Bush years, but we were recovering from 9/11 and we were fighting two wars. Obama’s spending is for entitlements, socialization of our country and economy, and he’s falsely using the financial crisis to fundamentally change our country.
The mainstream media is helping Obama with this mission. Their corruption is astounding. That CNN reporter zeroed in on one guy who was holding up an offensive sign depicting Obama as Hitler, and she chose to interview him first. I personally believe that man was an ACORN plant, and it wouldn’t surprise me if CNN knew that. My beef with her after she got done interviewing him and the gentleman with the baby, was that she was distorting what the majority of us were doing. She had an agenda that had to be confronted. She also showed extreme disrespect for the man with the baby, who was an honest man trying to explain his point of view. And to top it off, she accused me, and others, of being sent to the rally by some organized group and FOX News….as if she couldn’t believe that we were just Americans expressing our freedom of speech and disgust with government overspending. On top of this, Anderson Cooper, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow spent a week prior to the protests denigrating us by comparing us to a sexual act that they probably invented! So much for Obama’s promise of hope, change, and bringing the country together. There’s more division, hatred, and vitriol now than there ever was during the Bush years. And that division was a hard act to follow. This is what Obama has wrought with the help of the media.
Lastly, that CNN reporter represented something really vulgar and disgusting about the mainstream media in today’s world. They are supposed to be the voice of the people…the watchdogs….the check on the government’s over-reaching. They are not supposed to be the shill for the government they want. And that is what they have become. Cheap, vulgar shills. “
Big Boston sports weekend. I was too busy screaming at the TV.
CNN is painfully stupid. There are thousands of clips from various CNN reports on YouTube. Aren’t those in violation as well?
Huh. I tried to post a comment, but it didn’t take… O.k. The woman confronting the CNN shill in the video is named Cathy Barkulis, and she has a blog here.
She has something to say about the vid there.
Did you really just offer age discrimination as valid excuse?
LOL LOL
My youthful indiscretion and soon to fail eyesight, misread ‘In’ as ‘Im’
Ummm if I volunteer for the lashes, do I have to pay extra?
Just got around to watching the video. Nothing like watching a pseud0-journalism career go down in flames. Ain’t the Internet great?
As far as Chicago Narcisists Network (CNN) trying to censure other peoples content on-line….Laughable.
Can anyone, using a straight face, not declare CNN nothing more than a propaganda network?
Seriously, their actions speak louder than any other argument.
I’m still waiting for a link from which to actually download the video. None of the YouTube links support downloading.
The trolls are cracking me up today. A gay judge at a beauty pageant?
An oxymoron.
Bush is Like Hitler except Hitler won the election? Oh well.
Obama IS a Socialist and a Fascist.
Read his damn book and listen to his speeches/explanations of the Constitution and Wealth Justice.
So repeat after me:
Obama IS a Socialist and a Fascist. But them I imagine lgm is also-besides being a twit.
You’ve never heard O’Reilly say Fox news analysis leans right but not its reportage? (He says “reportage” in a decisively pronounced manner.) He reiterates it every few months, as does Hannity. Anyway, a quick Google search brought up an O’Reilly interview on THR.com that appears to have the quote, paraphrased perhaps, but the essence remains.
Ridiculing the Right while extolling the virtues of the Left in a supposed news story is not fair and balanced reporting; check any non-FNC network to verify.
On April 20th, 2009 at 11:20 am, lgm said:
There you go again, admitting you watch FOX.
C’mon, lgm, you do watch it “24/7″, don’tcha?
I’ve tried to find it, and will keep looking, but again have only heard Fox’s talking heads mention “fair and balanced” coverage/reporting and never a mention of the network leaning to the right. It’s a facade.
I agree. Only FoxNews uses the terms “Fair and Balanced” however.
All of the news channels have a slant. Heck, nowadays most people use all types of recources and form their own opinions. I don’t think objective news exists anymore.
Actually, most of us would likely never know…along with the vast majority of television consumers who have better taste.
The remainder would say, “Yawn. There they go again…”. For, if that were the height and depth and breadth of their expressed bias, we would consider they were off their game.
Another death rattle from the leftist media. I will celebrate when they gasp their last breath.
Cathy B. sums it up well for me. And someone just used the word “twit”. I ask that you please refrain from using that word unless referring to my favorite twit, Nancy Pelosi. I often add “Nancy Pelosi is a twit” to my posts, on or off topic. I think that is why I’m getting audited. Just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean the guvment ain’t out to get me.
The best was, “This is not for family viewing”. Obama should send social services in to take the kids at the tea parties away from these abusive parents and throw the parents into jail or re-education camps.
Why does is it that the MSM increasingly cares less and less about having any remnant of trust with its viewers? With lows like this, it’s a wonder we haven’t hit magma yet.
correction: …they haven’t hit magma yet. I highly recommend the Preview button. It’s a useful tool!
I don’t understand, the lefties are so out of sorts because of people calling Obama a fascist. My god, look it up, it fits….
Fascists want a one party system…the takeover of the census will help ensure that.
Fascists want to take over private enterprise….we are seeing the bailouts were just that. banks are trying to give the money back and the feds won’t let them? The feds are firing CEO’s?
Fascists promote their agenda through class warfare….Hello, the rich already payed most of the taxes. You were never told that though.
Fascists terrorize opposing views…DHS states that domestic right wing terrorists are what we should be afraid of…people turning in their neighbors, Nazi Germany style.
There is more…Obama is a fascist. Look it up.
Absolutely 100% agree with that.
Fox’ treatment by other media outlets and Democrats is what grinds my gears… To a Dem, what is on CNN or MSNBC is the gospel truth – but anything stated on Fox is dismissed immediately.
Every news outlet has a slant. However, this incident and CNN’s stamp of approval on it simply confirms what we have all known since the day Clinton won his first primary: CNN isn’t a news outlet. It is a stump for liberal political activism.
The Left screams that CNN calls itself “Fair and Balanced” while, in the Left’s opinion it is not. I will make a deal with you Lefties – Fox will call itself the “Right Wing News Network” if and only if CNN agrees to cease using their words “News” or “Journalism” in their “reporting” or titles. They have become a political forum. Be honest with yourselves and admit it.
It’s a fact: their reporting is fair and balanced; their news analysis shows like Hannity, O’Reilly, and Beck lean right. Watch their analysis shows long enough and you will hear them say it. They have nothing to hide.