The fact that the postings have not been removed — YouTube regularly yanks videos that media companies identify as pirated material — highlights the situation mash-ups pose for media companies: are these videos parodies of cultural icons and thus protected under copyright law, or do they trample on intellectual property?
The participants in this geriatric version of a bar room brawl are intoxicated with rage fueled by hatred and fear, stocked with daily doses of venom dispensed by dreadful doctors of doom who pose as media pundits: Dr. Limbaugh, Dr. Beck, Dr. Coulter, an entire faculty at Fox University Hospital.
"There has been intelligence that an assassination squad posing as media could threaten the king," Colonel Harradine told reporters.
Andy Schwarzman, head of the Media Access Project, which represents the public at the F.C.C., opposed the deal because of the danger it poses to media diversity both locally and nationally.
At his well-attended wake and funeral today in a Rio suburb, colleagues from Band News and dozens of other Brazilian journalists remembered a man who had worked to minimise the threats posed to media professionals.
Then he posed for media photos and had a private family tour.
This is what's so ironic about her self-styled "me against the media" pose: the very worst thing she could do to the media is to stop reminding her of her existence.
"No law enforcement officer should ever pose as a media person," said Ms. Niederpruem, city editor for The Indianapolis Star.
Mr Blair struck a resolutely diffident pose, telling a media lunch that his face had been used to advertise Sanatogen - but that at least it was not Viagra.
Digital and social media pose new civic opportunities (investigating issues, sharing one's voice in creative ways, and mobilizing for change) and new challenges (news literacy, surveillance, and uncivil exchanges).
