YouTube Question of the day: Are you 18?

The YouTube clip above resembles just how powerful and influential different forms of media can be. All though this clip has been modified as mentioned by the author "liberal viewer" the actual Fox clip is quite helpful. It shows how YouTube is trying to step up their game and become a real broadcast network where people can go and trust watching videos on. In order to earn his respect and trust they need to enact certain regulations that can monitor its viewers. It's also interesting to see how another media source, a news station becomes involved and interested in another medias action plan. This shows us how intertwined and related many forms of media are. The video clip also helps us to understand YouTube's plan of action in the upcoming months. What changes their making now and what changes are most likely to come if they do decide to try to branch out and become an even larger broadcaster. For now, this video makes it clear that YouTube does care about their image and what kinds of content is being published on their site. Therefore, censoring certain material is important to them and they want to make that clear to their audience. It's also interesting to point out some of the video's followers comments; politics aside there's some strong feelings either for or against this topic.