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Utah road sign flashes ‘God Hates Gays’ near Brigham Young Univ.
An electronic road sign near the Mormon church’s Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah shocked motorist on Wednesday with the message “God Hates Gays.” A driver posted a video of the sign on YouTube on Thursday. Provo Public Information Officer Helen Anderson told Raw Story that the signed belonged to…
YouTube dropped from iPhone-iPad operating system
SAN FRANCISCO — Applications to let users watch YouTube videos will not be pre-installed on the next generation of iPhones, iPads and iPod devices, in another sign of mounting rivalry between Apple and Google. People will still be able to watch YouTube videos on Apple’s globally popular products by linking…
Chick-Fil-A parody: Cluck off! You’re embarrassing yourself
The current political football surrounding Chick-Fil-A’s support of anti-gay groups inspired singer Kristie Stremel to let the fast food chain know how she felt. “Oh, Chick-Fil-A doesn’t like me cause I’m gay,” she sang on a video uploaded to YouTube. “So I wrote a little song to say: Cluck Off!…
Google introduces face-blurring feature on YouTube to protect protestors
Human rights activists and campaigners will be able to appear anonymously in videos posted to YouTube, after parent company Google introduced new face-blurring technology to the website. Google said the move was designed to help protect the identity of protesters who appear on the video-sharing site from being exposed to…
YouTube videos show nurses as stupid or sex objects: study
Nurses should go on the offensive against YouTube videos that stereotype them as sexual playthings or witless, according to a report published in a nursing journal. Researchers led by Gerard Fealy, a professor of nursing and midwifery at University College Dublin in Ireland, analysed the 10 most-viewed clips on the…
YouTube becoming major news platform: study
WASHINGTON — YouTube, the Google-owned video sharing website, has become a major platform around the world for news, posing challenges to media organizations, a study said Monday. The Pew Research Center report said that news related events were the most searched items on YouTube in five months of a 15-month…
Frankfurt Zoo trots out new baby gorilla
The Raw Story staff collectively said “Awww” when we saw the baby gorilla cuddling with its 29-year-old mother named Rebecca at the Frankfurt Zoo. Regina Brinkmann, the zoo’s gorilla keeper, said Rebecca “came before us, clean and fully proud and went immediately to show us, ‘Look what I have.’ She…
Can you beat him?
The eloquent remark from the YouTube channel this comes from bears repeating, here : “Rainbow Bunchie aka. Final Boss of Internet jumping for 10 hours ..Can you beat him?” Of course, if one cannot fathom why this video is not at least of some very general importance regarding the culture,…
AFSCME mocks ‘The Boehner Bunch’ in new video
The AFSCME, a union representing 1.6 million public service workers, on Tuesday uploaded a video to YouTube that humorously criticizes Republicans for their opposition to the Affordable Care Act. The video, based on the intro to the 1970′s sitcom The Brady Bunch, claims that “working people don’t matter” to prominent…
Google and Italy partner to put film heritage on YouTube
US Internet giant Google and Italy’s Istituto Luce-Cinecitta on Thursday announced a joint project to make much of the country’s silver screen heritage available on a YouTube channel. “This announcement represents an important step in our efforts to safeguard Italy’s rich culture and allow global public access to it,” said…
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