Stewart/O'Reilly Debate is Top Political YouTube Video

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Cable proved a big draw on YouTube last week, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism's New Media Index.

According to that tally for May 21-27), the most viewed news or politics video on the site was the first part of an interview between Fox News' Bill O'Reilly and Comedy Central's Jon Stewart. It had 1,613,866 views at press time.

Part two of the interview came in at number five on that most-viewed list (it had 752,362 views at press time).

Stewart and O'Reilly debated the president's invitation of Grammy-winning rapper Common to a White House event celebrating poetry.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.