So much going on
By Tim.With so much going on, it’s hard to take a minute to stop and blog the moments along the way. However, we’ve got to congratulate Josh Marshall, TPM, and our team here at Veracifier, who are having their best week ever.
It all started when an eagle eyed member of the TPMtv team posted some video of John McCain not exactly chastising a questioner who called our possible next President an unflattering world. That video’s here, if you didn’t happen to catch it.
By that afternoon, the video was the top story on the front page of AOL and our channel had racked up about a million extra views — in one day — on both YouTube and our site. To date, there are now over 1600 comments on YouTube, over 15,000 comments on AOL, and the story keeps rolling.
Oh, and especially fun for all of us — all the attention made Veracifier the #1 most viewed channel on YouTube for the day:
What’s especially interesting is that this was video footage the entire media corps had access to; our lean operation with TPM pays a modest fee to get clean access to video footage such as this from some of the same providers who provide to C-SPAN. As we noticed once before with the Rose Garden Long Shot incident, often the key to good TV online is just about finding the right stuff at the right time, and making it more available than anyone else. Great job, Josh, Ben, Marc, and everyone else on Veracifier. (And thanks to David Levin at Brainstorm for the heads-up.)
November 16th, 2007 at 5:36 am
Nice work… this next year is going to be the year for veracifier! Keep rocking!
November 16th, 2007 at 6:58 am
+1 .. Nice work.
This is *also* going to be the year for news reporting sources being kept honest (to whatever degree that’s possible) because of citizen journalists filming the same video as the majors, but posting the actual video instead of sound bites edited specifically for spin.
I videoblogged a plane crash in Manhattan, NYC over a year ago. The reason I went was that NY1 News was showing fire coming out of the windows of the apartment building that got hit. I got there, there was nothing but smoke. I stayed for an hour, nothing but smoke. Got back home, and NY1 was *STILL* showing a loop of fire coming out of the building I had just laid eyes on. That’s when I realized that the fire had PROBABLY been out way before I started heading over there. :/
November 16th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Bill, don’t you know that fire looks way better on TV?
I don’t think we can expect non-professionals who engage in journalism to be any more free of bias — just have different ones — but it’s great to have an alternative, or in our case a million alternatives. Forget keeping em honest — people will stop watching NY1 altogether if they find someone is doing it better for them. And that’s as true unfortunately for people making their main sources of news FOX or TMZ as Veracifier or Gothamist.
I just hope everyone keeps Bill’s healthy spirit of critical thinking. They still teach that in schools, right?
Thanks for the kind words, Bill and Bre.
April 29th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
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