You may recall that AMC networks and Dish are having a spat about carriage on the satellite provider.
Last month Dish unceremoniously removed all AMC Networks. Dish says the AMC products underperformed. AMC's premiere channel is American Movie Classics (AMC) and offers original content such as The Killing, Mad Men and Breaking Bad.
In order to ensure Dish subscribers saw the July 15 season premiere of Breaking Bad, AMC made the episode available live on its website for free. Dish countered that the move demonstrated that AMC properties and content were "overpriced."
Did you watch the premiere? Where did you watch it?
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A pew study reports that Fox News clips were at the top of all US news organization clips on You Tube.
Most of the clips came from Fox News opinion programs and often had commentary critical of the clip or Fox News. The Pew Report noted that clips posted on You Tube from news organizations may or may not have the permission of the copyright holder or the news organization. Pew also reported that most clips are uploaded to the video service by individuals and not the news organizations.
While Fox was at the top source for US news clips, Russia Today was the overall "winner." Russia Today had 8.6 percent of the week's top clips during the study period of January 2011 - March 2012.
Six of the top 10 spots in the survey were US news organizations, but the Pew study may be flawed as it counted the White House as a news organization. Propaganda organization, maybe.
The study did demonstrate that news organizations may play an important role in supplying news and information through the internet, especially, You Tube. It pointed out that one of the pitfalls may be trying to monetize content while maintaining ethical standards.
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Since President Obama's speech on taxes, Democrats in Congress have been energized to force a vote on tax cuts for everyone but small business owners and individuals making over $250,000 or, in another proposal, $200,000. There are other proposals suggesting the cutoff be $1 million dollars, but those are seeing little, if any, support.
Sen Patty Murray (D-WA) said today that Senate democrats are willing to allow the Bush-era tax cuts expire unless Republicans agree to the President's proposal. In other words, a massive tax hike for everyone on January 1, 2013.
Since the GOP controlled House is planning a vote on extending all tax cuts within the net few weeks, it will be interesting to see how the debate goes when GOP candidate explain the Democrats plan to voters.
Are they willing to test the resolve of voters on tax cuts? Are they ready for massive defeats in all races?
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The Democrats may want to look at a recent poll on taxes before playing Russian roulette with tax raising proposals.
A Mclatchy-Marist poll shows 52 percent of registered voters want the Bush-era tax cuts to be extended including the cuts for wage earners and small businesses. 43 percent say the cuts for high earners should expire.
I wonder if Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) and her Senate colleagues have seen this poll or care about the opinion of voters. Likely not, they passed Obamacare.
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