YouTube Becomes 'DeathTube' For Saddam
Where are those cat videos now, Brian Williams?
We avidly track YouTube’s most-watched videos page, and it seems YouTube turned a yet another corner with Saddam Hussein‘s “hasty” hanging this weekend. The networks — like one TVNewser “insider” surmised — seemed to react to what footage was surfacing on YouTube and elsewhere, and often used its Web proliferation as a starting point, putting YouTube in the crosshairs of an international story. The Daily Reel put it this way:
The execution of Saddam Hussein is one of the most watched videos on the Internet.
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