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Comments on: YouTube-Viacom trial turns comic

1 BILLION?!? 

Posted Wednesday 15th August 2007 09:37 GMT

The logic of the stations baffles me.

So some kid posts it on Youtube, so that means that Comedy Central lost 340 million viewers as the WHOLE of America is watching it for free courtesy of Google instead?!

If anything needs satirical comedians, its that courtroom.

Truthiness 

Posted Wednesday 15th August 2007 10:16 GMT

I really hope Colbert takes full advantage of this opportunity and talks about the truthiness of Viacom's claims...

Surprise witnesses... 

Posted Wednesday 15th August 2007 11:18 GMT

... each more surprising than the last! Sounds like Google aren't as confident as they say they are about their safe haven claim if they're even thinking about stunts like this.

Tip of the hat... 

Posted Wednesday 15th August 2007 11:33 GMT

.....Wag of the finger is in order?

Colbert has already slated Viacom 

Posted Wednesday 15th August 2007 13:51 GMT

Kind of surprised to see this hasn't already been mentioned in the story, but Colbert has ridiculed Viacom over the whole YouTube spat on more than one The Colbert Report- and very funnily too.

Also surprised to see no mention another Viacomm sued YouTube for having a video of a Colbert _parody_ .

Not faux... 

Posted Wednesday 15th August 2007 16:12 GMT

Stewart and Colbert? I wouldn't call then faux newsmen. I'd call then the BEST newsmen, specially Stewart. Much better than watching the "regular" news -- where they keep a straight face when they are lying to you. With these guys, at least you know what's going on... And yes, Colbert does pretend to be someone else: Papa Bear.

Redstone was in an episode of the Colbert Report (by phone), and yes, he ain't funny. Although Colbert made him seem funny enough.

Timeliness? 

Posted Wednesday 15th August 2007 16:47 GMT

Let's see, how many times does Comedy Central show Stewart and Colbert? Twice? Once at night and again the next day. So when the shows turn up on YouTube the next week, just how much are they losing?

"Mr. Redstone, since the shows first started appearing on YouTube, how have the ratings been affected?"

"Umh, erh, The Daily Show is up five points and The Colbert Report is up six."

"How has ad revenue changed in that time period?"

"Well, ah, ad revenue for The Daily Show is up eight and a half per cent and for The Colbert Report it's up seven per cent."

"How much of a loss does this equate to?"

Re Dillon Pyron 

Posted Thursday 16th August 2007 06:01 GMT

It's a small point to note but that could still equate to a loss if the growth in ratings and ad revenue, whilst positive can still be lossy if the long term trend rate is above this. Pedantic - but it's something that's been pissing me off with newspaper "stats" recently...