Prime time snuff
How does everyone feel about (what amounts to) a snuff film from Vancouver airport being the most watched clip on YouTube this morning? 250,000 views and counting.
Does the nature of a video like this change when it hits the front page of YouTube? A few days ago it was just evidence in a police inquiry.
UPDATE: Mathew Ingram posted about citizen journalism and this video yesterday. Close to a hundred people left comments and almost all were appalled at how police dealt with the situation – doing little to calm Robert Dziekanski before tasering him, twice.
This outrage is exactly how I felt after watching the clip. No clip on YouTube would mean no public reaction and therefore likely no public pressure for the police to be held accountable. There is no question that having this video in the public domain is a good thing.
The point I’m making above is that it is a snuff film. Robert Dziekanski dies on camera at the end of the clip and 250,000 of us watched it. That gives me a very funny feeling.
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