NYT Accepts Google Muzzle: Bombs YouTube NYC Story
What a New York Times non-story, from Ms. Story, to boot! All the news that is fit to print? NO! NYT reporter Louise Story claims to “report” from a Google event even as she acknowledges that Google’s terms for allowing her to attend the Google event are that she is prohibited from reporting what transpired!
The NYT “reporter” apparently negotiated with Google the “right” (privilege) of telling the world, on behalf of Google, what a wonderful party Google threw last night in NYC to woo advertisers for its fledging YouTube property (yes, despite high bandwidth cost monster traffic, YouTube IS a STILL fledging Google business).
ODD, that the “old gray lady” would proudly “report” that it accepted a company’s muzzle while it gleefully regurgitates approved PR talking points. Story says the event was “choreographed to be somewhat of a lovefest for Google” while dutifully succumbing herself to Google’s proscribed moves.
What are the “bits” of “news” the NYT passed along to readers from a pre-party Google-scripted PR event? HP, Pepsi, General Mills ‘made substantial committments to running ads on YouTube.” Too bad Story didn’t find out–at the press event–how the hand-picked Google testimonialists quantify “substantial,” aka hard numbers.
It is not surprising that “new” NYC media–CNET, Silicon Alley Insider–cheer THEIR Google snub, same as they cheered for Google when they were let in, last month. SEE: Google Execs Silent On NYC Print, Radio, TV Promises
Here at Insder Chatter, though, I cut through the Google hype, in (last month) or out (last night) of the Googleplex machine. SEE: Google CEO In-Car Radio Ad Vision Fading and Google TV Ads Auction: NO AdWords Buyer’s Remorse.
How did the NYT really bomb the Google YouTube story though? Ms. Story neglected to remind readers of the billion dollar YouTube party pooper menace that aims to crash the YouTube copyright infringement free ride for good: Viacom.
The NYT’s Story oddly concludes her non Google story by bringing up the non-reporting she did from the Facebook “invitation only” event last year. The final line of Story’s NYT Google “report”: “Clearly Google didn’t want reporters at YouTube’s coming-out event to pick-up on anything controversial.” REALLY? The big YouTube controversy is aready long public, despite now being ignored by the NYT.
Why would Google be worried about a favored “reporter” such as NYT’s Ms. Story? She bombed the Facebook story too, even though she was given an exclusive front row seat, as I “report” in Facebook: Harvard Dropout Tricks NYT? Zuckerberg is Coca-Cola Scapegoat.
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