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Comments on: No, the White House hasn't ditched YouTube

A member of the CNET Blog Network on Monday reported that the White House has moved to a new video player. That was wrong.

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by mexic0 March 3, 2009 1:33 PM PST
Where did the incorrect information come from? Why did CNET publish incorrect information?
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by -Oneota- March 3, 2009 2:25 PM PST
Because journalistic integrity means zilch in the blogging community. Page hits rule the roost.
by AndrewRich March 3, 2009 2:26 PM PST
Soghoian has had a bug up his arse ever since the new WhiteHouse.gov went live about embedded YouTube videos. He can't explain it and mutters something about cookies and privacy policies. It's nonsense, of course, but since CNet publishes his column his rants get media attention. Best just to ignore, I should think.
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by dream_fly March 3, 2009 3:02 PM PST
I am still looking for some pure tech news site. I don't mine people's opinion but please don't mix it up with news. It's CNET's false to combine news articles with blog entries on the news section. May be they can't tell the difference.
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by 7679vaska March 3, 2009 4:43 PM PST
I agree with dream_fly. This appears to be Soghoian's 2nd such article in recent weeks. The earlier article was about the robot.txt article: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13739_3-10153244-46.html

His articles appear to be more opinion and less on applied critical thinking.
by dbrohamTV March 4, 2009 4:44 AM PST
thanks for clearing this up after reading Soghoian's bogus article I have pretty much removed CNet from my daily reading list. I still may move on, because frankly CNet's brand has been thoroughly damaged for me. I really don't trust this site anymore.
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by streamOG March 4, 2009 7:29 AM PST
This happens all the time at CNET. They regularly post irresponsible and incorrect pieces to drive up their banner impressions. The author of this article does it all the time.
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by sandonet March 4, 2009 3:24 PM PST
Chris, you should be truthful and transparent in your comments. You should inform the readers that you don't like my stories on DRM, and that you own a business that supplies DRM. You don't have to like them but to accuse me of writing incorrect pieces--without citing any proof or examples--and then say I'm doing it to drive banner impressions is just unfair.
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