From here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/02/saddam_youtube_hit/
“User Generated Content” finally scored a smash hit in 2006, although we had to wait until the year’s end to see it.
But thanks to a minute of grainy, camera phone footage, the truly shambolic nature of the execution of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was disclosed for all to see. The footage that the networks wouldn’t show is the weekend’s hit on YouTube.
When watching the end of the dictator on BBC TV we were shown, and told, that the man had gone to a dignified end. The filmed footage stopped at the noose going on, something that the commentators attributed to “not wanting to disturb viewers.”
Ha, as if they care about that. People commented to me that his end was courageous, and it was, but not for the reasons people saw on national TV.
Grainy, crappy footage of the entire hanging has been posted to YouTube. This shows the hackneyed, nightmare, shambles of a jeering crowd cursing Saddam and him forming witty rebuttals and even the start of a prayer before that long drop claimed his life.
Whether Saddam should have been hanged or not, I believe he should, is in the end not the real story here. The real story is that this was footage they didn’t want us to see.
Who is they? I don’t know, I could guess, but they certainly have the media in their pocket.
What YouTube has proved is that in this coming year all those they out there should be careful as the world is watching. It is watching content you cannot control anymore.
God bless the Internet’s independence. Perhaps the most important invention in the last 100 years.
Freedom is the ability to see, hear and speak the truth. Even if that truth is not something they want us to see. Truth is sometimes raw, but it is always true. Saddam went to an ignoble death and he showed more class than his executors. That is an unpalatable truth, but I accept it with better grace than the BBC doctored bullshit version.
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