BigShinyThing

Thursday 23 March 2006

Eta ceasefire declaration appears on YouTube minutes after being delivered.

We know that BigShinyThing is often more concerned with baby pandas and cat circuses than the Real World. However, occasionally emergent media does something that encapsulates the tipping point of old media vs new. And exposes the inability of the old model in getting the really important news out there immediately to the people who need it. This is one of those moments.

An excerpt from Martin Hardie’s original Nettime post that brought this to our attention:

…lunch time today we were greeted here in the basque country by the news of the eta ceasefire. its good news but what follows i am sure will be harder than the ’struggle’ to this point. anyway the news was broken by Gara, a local basque newspaper closley allied with the ezkerda abertzale (patriotic left), the banned party, batasuna etc etc … on the gara front page http://gara.net/ is/was a link to the video of the eta announcement http://gara.net/bideoa.htm when i tried to follow the share link the video in flash format took me to a web page on youtube dot com [URL] Its nice to see that you tube provide such a frinedly and timely service to those in need of alternate media outlets! thats all it made me smile.

Posted by Anne-Fay | Tags: ETA ceasefire, politics, YouTube

One Comment

Gerbert [December 5th, 2007 at 11:37 pm ]

Well, I cant agree more.

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