I've seen Benji boogie and watched the Jayhawks jam. I've born witness to the weird and been privy to the perverse .
And it's all thanks to YouTube.
Many claim this viral video vixen may hasten the demise of television news as we know it.
I'm not one of them.
Is YouTube entertaining? Absolutely! Newsworthy? You tell me. Go ahead and take a look at YouTube's news category. I'll wait. Back? Now, tell me: what does this have to do with news? Nothing, as far as I can tell. Yet, it – and many other priceless gems just like it – pop up under the site's news and blogs category.
That's the problem with YouTube. You have to sort through plenty of trash before you can find the occasional treasure. And I'm just not sure I want to get my news from the same place that considers this worthy of my time.
YouTube is a lot of things. What it's not is a credible news source. And that's a shame … especially, when you consider the site's incredible marketing potential.
In fact, the site's now 30 million visitors a day rival the total number of viewers who tune in to all three network newscasts.
While It's easy to be blinded by the hype surrounding YouTube, the site has yet to unveil a profitable business model or a plan to fend off other, more reputable film aggregators.
If YouTube wants to take a bite out of the mainstream news market, it'll need to do some major marketing and perhaps, undergo a bit of a redesign.
Because if I'm searching for the news, I really don't want to wade past this to get it.
I agree with you on this. For people to think this is a place to try and find news coverage will be sadly mistaken. This is just a place mainly used for entertainment.