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(Newser) - Republicans posted a video today that questions Barack Obama’s old links to Rod Blagojevich, Politico reports. Titled "Questions Remain," it urges Obama to reveal contacts between his team and the scandal-plagued governor. The video shows that Obama advised Blago in his 2002 campaign, and endorsed Blago's... More »

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Barack Obama • RNC • corruption • video • Illinois • governor • Rod Blagojevich • political scandal • President Obama

 YouTube Partners Carve Out Niche, Rake In Cash

Sharing ad revenue boosts income for YouTube and lets videomakers hone skills

Dec 11, 08 8:17 AM CST
(Newser) - YouTube's "partnership" deal with users is generating cash for both sides, the New York Times reports. Splitting ad revenues helps YouTube avoid the copyright kerfuffles that have hamstrung much of its moneymaking potential. Hundreds of partners are making thousands of dollars a month, the company says, allowing some self-made... More »

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Google • Internet • YouTube • advertising • user generated content • online advertising • video • web video

McCain Camp: LA Times Is Suppressing Obama Video

Paper accused of concealing candidate's links to Palestinian scholar

Oct 29, 08 3:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - The McCain campaign is accusing the Los Angeles Times of shirking its journalistic duty by sitting on a tape of Barack Obama speaking at a 2003 dinner in honor of a Palestinian-American scholar and activist. The Times—which wrote about the tape in an April article on Obama's ties to... More »

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Barack Obama • video • Obama 2008 • Palestinians • Los Angeles Times • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • Rashid Khalidi

 UFO Video Raises  
 a Fuss in Turkey  

Objects spotted near Istanbul during 4-month stretch 'serious challenge to science'

Oct 21, 08 4:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Video taken of strange objects in the night sky over Turkey has been deemed authentic—well, at least by UFO researchers. A night watchman shot the video over multiple nights earlier this year, and it shows hovering craft and strange constellations of lights, the Sun reports. A self-described expert who... More »

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Turkey • video • extraterrestrial life • UFO sightings • spacecraft • outer space

Vegas Cop Thought OJ Heist 'Couldn't Be True'

'It didn't make sense' until he heard tape

Sep 18, 08 3:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - The first Las Vegas detective to investigate OJ Simpson’s alleged involvement in an armed robbery last September said he was initially flabbergasted at the idea, the Los Angeles Times reports. “It didn't make sense,” Andy Caldwell testified yesterday at Simpson’s trial. Caldwell was soon swayed by... More »

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celebrity trials • Las Vegas • kidnapping • OJ Simpson • trial • video • testimony • armed robbery • recording

Don't Talk Down to Alzheimer's Patients: Docs

Trouble communicating leads to frustration, uncooperative behavior

Jul 28, 08 8:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Even after they lose the ability to communicate easily, Alzheimer’s disease patients remain aware of the world around them and know when they're being talked down to, a study shows. Video evidence suggests patients are twice as likely to accept help from caregivers, and to not shut down or... More »

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elderly • dementia • video • scientific study • caregivers • scientific research • Alzheimer's Disease

 AP Pulls Faked Tornado Video 

Storm chaser allegedly doctored another man's old footage into his own

Jul 10, 08 8:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Associated Press has pulled a video described as depicting a tornado that hit Nebraska last weekend after a storm chaser claimed that it was faked. After Andy Fabel sold the clip to the AP, which passed it along to 2,000 websites, another man noticed similarities between it and... More »

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tornado • Nebraska • Kansas • video • Associated Press • fake photos

Hostages Rejoice on Rescue Video

Footage shows them hugging and crying on board helicopter

Jul 4, 08 8:38 PM CDT
(AP) - Video recorded during the rescue of 15 rebel hostages shows them filing grim-faced toward the helicopter that would fly them to safety, then hugging one another and crying with joy after they are aloft and realize they are free, the AP reports. Watch the video on the MSNBC link below. More »

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Colombia • video • FARC • Ingrid Betancourt • hostage

 In Heroin Video,
 Angie Talks of Killing Pets 

'99 clip shot at NYC drug hangout is blast from supermom's sordid past

May 19, 08 12:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - A drug-filled home video from 1999 of then-23-year-old Angelina Jolie babbling about sadomasochistic sex and killing her pets has surfaced, the Sun reports. In the video, the noted humanitarian and mother of four describes how she killed her mouse when she dyed it blue and gave her hamster pneumonia when... More »

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Angelina Jolie • drugs • animal cruelty • video

Spitzer Hooker Sues Girls Gone Wild for $10M

Francis exploited
her with booze,
call girl claims

Apr 28, 08 8:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - The call girl who once serviced New York's governor is now charging $10 million—in a lawsuit against Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis, People reports. Ashley Alexandra Dupré alleges that Francis persuaded her to be filmed topless when she was underage and exploited her name and image for profit. More »

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Girls Gone Wild • Joe Francis • video • lawsuit • exploitation • Ashley Dupre

Pakistan Ambassador Held by Taliban

Video surfaces two months after his disappearance

Apr 19, 08 8:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a video aired today on an Arab channel, Pakistan’s missing ambassador to Afghanistan says he was kidnapped two months ago by Taliban militants, AP reports. In the brief clip, Tariq Azizuddin, seated on the ground with his driver and bodyguard in front of three armed masked men, says... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • kidnapping • video • Tariq Azizuddin • ambassador

Web Videos
May Be Ad
Gold Mine

Market expected to explode as media companies retool

Apr 4, 08 3:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - TV networks, major news organizations, and independent producers are all scrambling to create Web videos that will let them snag a portion of the ad dollars flowing online. Ad spending on Internet videos will grow to $4.3 billion by 2011, say researchers—a 455% increase over today. "It's... More »

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Internet • NBC • independent film • CBS • advertising • online advertising • online videos • Disney • video • LonelyGirl15

YouTube Opens to Developers

Expect more options for videos soon—including watching them on TiVo

Mar 14, 08 1:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - YouTube is opening up to software developers, the company said Wednesday. Programmers can create new interfaces to play videos, for example, or let users upload clips to YouTube directly from other sites. And later this year, viewers will be able to watch YouTube videos via TiVo. The open platform won’... More »

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YouTube • video • TiVo • Electronic Arts • programmers • Spore • software developers • Animoto • slideshow • video games

Cable Companies to Apple: OK, Let's Rumble

Jobs plans video push, but Hollywood doesn't plan to give him any special deals

Jan 11, 08 3:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Steve Jobs wants to take the world of video entertainment by storm, but Hollywood and the cable companies aren’t scared, reports BusinessWeek. Apple is planning an iTunes movie rental service and is well on its way to sealed deals with four major movie studios, but it’s not... More »

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Steve Jobs • Comcast • Apple • video • AppleTV

'US Americans' Love Videos

Internet phenomenon scores big in 2007

Dec 27, 07 2:54 PM CST
(Newser) - With small-screen stars ranging from ditzy beauty queens to potty-mouthed pint-sized landlords, Americans increasingly gathered around the YouTube watercooler in 2007. They racked up 100 billion views on various video sites, ABC News reports. Cultural commentators liken the phenomenon to cavemen swapping tall tales around campfires, but 78% of us... More »

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Internet • YouTube • online videos • video • Miss South Carolina • viral video

Ads Spoof Terror Videos; Not All Are Amused

Dutch fireworks-safety ads draws outrage

Dec 24, 07 12:28 PM CST
(Newser) - Dutch fireworks-safety ads spoofing Islamic terrorists have drawn criticism for their light take on suicide bombings and portrayal of negative Muslim stereotypes, the Guardian reports. The group depicted in the government-sponsored ads—LAAF, or the “Liberation Army Against Freedom”—is seen getting fireworks delivered as illicit arms, holing... More »

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Islam • terrorism • Muslims • fireworks • video • Holland • Liberation Army Against Freedom

CIA Chief
Sheds Little Light on Tapes

Hayden grilled by Senate panel, says videos predate him

Dec 11, 07 6:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Senators grilled CIA chief Michael Hayden for 90 minutes today, but his appearance behind closed doors shed little light on the agency's destruction of interrogation videotapes, the AP reports. Hayden's session was "useful and not yet complete," said Sen. Jay Rockefeller of the intelligence panel. Afterward, Hayden said... More »

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CIA • torture • Senate • House of Representatives • video • Michael Hayden • waterboarding • interrogation techniques

New Media Player Centralizes Web Viewing

Miro 'solves a problem you didn't know you had'

Nov 14, 07 2:10 PM CST
(Newser) - A media player publicly released today organizes Internet video programs and translates their feeds, centralizing your online viewing experience. Miro handily “solves a problem you didn’t know you had,” says Fortune’s Josh Quittner. Not only can you subscribe to channels or programs from any video portal—... More »

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social networking • Internet • video • application • Mozilla • Miro • media player

Could Bin Laden's New Video Be Fake?

Computer scientist thinks it's re-cut 2004 footage with new audio

Oct 30, 07 4:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Terror mastermind Osama bin Laden's latest video may have been faked, according to recent analysis. A computer scientist points out that the video freezes whenever bin Laden mentions current events and that the footage is nearly identical to a video released in 2004. It's likely the "new" tape is... More »

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War on Terror • video • terrorist • Osama bin Laden • terror tape • al-Qaeda

Iraqi al-Qaeda Flaunts US
Pilot's ID

Group says it will post video about ‘missing’ airman declared dead

Sep 13, 07 4:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - An Iraqi group linked to al-Qaeda says it will release video about an Air Force pilot the US declared dead last year, Reuters reports. The group's statement termed the airman “missing,” and was accompanied by an image of Troy Gilbert’s military ID. The pilot was declared dead... More »

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Air Force • video • pilot • Troy Gilbert • Islamic State • al-Qaeda

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