http://gigaom.com/video/saddam-hussein-execution-video/ Fri, 25 May 2012 07:31:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/video/saddam-hussein-execution-video/#comment-442616 Tue, 01 May 2007 19:35:09 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/01/02/saddam-hussein-execution-video/#comment-442616 [...] Hitwise, graphic major news events — like the death of croc hunter Steve Irwin and the hanging of Saddam Hussein — helped spur an almost 200 percent increase in traffic to multimedia news sites in the past [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/video/saddam-hussein-execution-video/#comment-442615 Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:32:17 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/01/02/saddam-hussein-execution-video/#comment-442615 […] Executions of dictators aside, there seems to be a growing, disturbing trend of violent kid-on-kid video finding its way to places like YouTube and MySpace. On the wild Internet, it’s hardly surprising to occasionally surf across something explicit or graphic. That’s part of the price you pay for networked freedom. But we’re not sure what to make of an apparent follow-on trend, that of purportedly reputable broadcast operations — including CNN — using snippets of YouTube video violence to pep up their “professional” reports, Jerry Springer style. […]

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