"The New You Tube"

During this past year America, along with the rest of the world, has become obsessed with the online sensation known as You Tube. Anyone from around the entire world can post a video about virtually anything they please, from serious news articles, television shows to people singing their hearts out to web-cams. The “You Tube” website is pretty much a hub for people to show and express new ideas via video.

More and more people are getting their news from the internet these days, and “You Tube” is beginning an extremely popular way for people to obtain information concerning the world around them. “You Tube” may not be the most reliable source for news stories, but it keeps people entertained and most importantly it makes money. Last year “You Tube” racked in a staggering 1.65 billion dollars in profit. Not too shabby. However, others want a slice of this money making pie. NBC and News Corporation have announced that they will too make a website that provides “professionally produced video delivered on the sites where they live.”

Unlike “You Tube”, the website in works will provide streaming news feeds and television programs that air on their networks free of charge. NBC and News Corp. will be able to do this by supporting the website via advertisements. Vast amounts of people will be exposed to this new website, which should be available this summer, and some the first things they will see is advertisements. It is basically the internet’s way of showing a commercial. The ads don’t always get in your way of surfing the net, besides some pop-ups, but some ads definitely catch the wandering eyes of many internet goers.

When it comes down to it, people are not going to stray totally away from “You Tube”, because there are too many entertaining videos and hilarious spoofs to be passed up. People want to be entertained as well as absorbing the facts, the new website provided by NBC and News Corps might just be the answer. People can watch whatever news story they want at anytime of the day by simply clicking a mouse. If websites like these continue to emerge, television news may have to take the back seat. The viewers can watch what they want and not have to listen to news stories they have no interest in. Television networks might have to rally up some support and launch their own version of “You Tube”, if they want to be able to compete on the internet. The internet is virtually becoming the “New News” of our lifetime and we may soon see that television network news is no longer viewed and in some instances may be referred to as “Old News”