{"id":1657,"date":"2007-07-28T11:45:19","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T15:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/07\/28\/youtube-al-jazeera-english-channel\/"},"modified":"2007-07-28T14:39:31","modified_gmt":"2007-07-28T18:39:31","slug":"youtube-al-jazeera-english-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/07\/youtube-al-jazeera-english-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Al Jazeera English Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interesting move, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YVFrryFNfEA\">Al Jazeera English channel put a video on YouTube<\/a> asking for feedback videos on the YouTube channel. What are people&#8217;s perceptions, views, and suggestions? <\/p>\n<p>(An aside &#8211; wow, is that anchorwoman <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/5CB2C145-7196-4C83-9DF8-1162AAD052EF.htm\">Ghida Fakhry<\/a> ever pretty!) <\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YVFrryFNfEA[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>As you might expect, the video responses were of varying quality. Many respondents disguised themselves. One hid a pretty nasty message in pig latin. Others used it to interview for a job, or to express various opinions of their own. Here were a few that stood out to me for one reason or another.<\/p>\n<p>The Hands-Down Best Critique.   <\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uDU61G59FoA[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>Under pressure (including murder) to dilute reporting, now importing &#8220;BBC&#8221; types for the English channel.<br \/>\n(Journalist author filmmaker John Pilger)<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZaUTTlK4MW4[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>To Address Preconceptions, Change to a Neutral Name (i.e. &#8220;Associated Press&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8zD-UqnKJI8[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>Paris Hilton (etc.) vs News &#8211; any questions?<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f7jB3UK4O-I[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>And, my favorite&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Save Me Some Brain Ache, Please.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rFUOnh4DLeY[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interesting move, the Al Jazeera English channel put a video on YouTube asking for feedback videos on the YouTube channel. What are people&#8217;s perceptions, views, and suggestions? (An aside &#8211; wow, is that anchorwoman Ghida Fakhry ever pretty!) [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YVFrryFNfEA[\/youtube] As you might expect, the video responses were of varying quality. Many respondents disguised themselves. One hid a pretty nasty message in pig latin. Others used it to interview for a job, or to express various opinions of their&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/07\/youtube-al-jazeera-english-channel\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,30,31,11,5,10,9,3,32,14],"tags":[4092,4093,665,3474,2908,99,1834,2169,742,4094,4095,6181,4096,4097],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-nation","category-business","category-consumer","category-creative","category-culture","category-human-rights","category-odd-and-interesting","category-politics","category-video","category-virus-related","tag-al-jazeera","tag-brain-ache","tag-critique","tag-feedback","tag-investigative-reporting","tag-iraq","tag-news","tag-objective-reporting","tag-opinion","tag-paris-hilton","tag-usmilitary","tag-video","tag-war-coverage","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}