{"id":437,"date":"2007-05-15T15:27:51","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T22:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=437"},"modified":"2007-05-15T15:27:51","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T22:27:51","slug":"to-youtube-or-not-to-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"To YouTube Or Not To YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a follow up to my article<\/a> yesterday on press freedom which reported the Pentagon’s order barring soldiers from using YouTube, MySpace, and other social networks, there were a couple of notable stories published today:<\/p>\n

DoD Flip-Flop: YouTube Banned, But Watch It.<\/a>
\n“One day after the Pentagon banned US military personnel worldwide from accessing the wildly popular YouTube Web site via DoD computers and networks, the weekly electronic newsletter of the US-led Multi-National Forces-Iraq (MNF-I) today makes a banner appeal for US forces and others to watch MNF-I’s new YouTube channel<\/a>.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Warner Blasts Pentagon Internet Move.<\/a>
\n“There is nothing more important to the men and women of the armed forces than to have that connection to home,” said [Sen. John] Warner, who served in the U.S. Navy. “I will be looking into it today.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Talk about your mixed messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a follow up to my article yesterday on press freedom which reported the Pentagon’s order barring soldiers from using YouTube, MySpace, and other social networks, there were a couple of notable stories published today: DoD Flip-Flop: YouTube Banned, But Watch It. “One day after the Pentagon banned US military personnel worldwide from accessing the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-press","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-73","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":884,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=884","url_meta":{"origin":437,"position":0},"title":"Spin-Com: Obama And Clinton Step Up – Media Cowers","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/29\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The propaganda scandal uncovered last week by the New York Times has been virtually blacked-out by the rest of the media - particularly television. 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