C-SPAN has nastygrammed YouTube over showing Stephen Colbert’s speech at the White House dinner, which has complied and taken the clip down. Sure, it’s within C-SPAN’s to demand it, but why bother? They’re getting more free press from the internet than they ever would anywhere else.
Here’s a novel idea: how about C-SPAN host a highlight reel on its own website? It’s not like the world needs to see everything on YouTube, Google Video, or nowhere at all, and there’s certainly no chance at all people are going to buy the video from them for $25.