{"id":1180,"date":"2007-04-13T22:26:56","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T03:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/04\/13\/lorne-michaels-of-snl-says-youtube-rocks\/"},"modified":"2007-04-13T22:26:56","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T03:26:56","slug":"lorne-michaels-of-snl-says-youtube-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/04\/13\/lorne-michaels-of-snl-says-youtube-rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorne Michaels of SNL says YouTube rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" id=\"image244\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/snipshot_d41kf70f7xg9.jpg?w=525\" alt=\"snipshot_d41kf70f7xg9.jpg\" \/>In an interview with the New York Observer, Lorne Michaels &#8212; the creator of Saturday Night Live and proud product of The Great White North &#8212; says that as far as he&#8217;s concerned, YouTube is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/20070416\/20070416_Felix_Gillette_pageone_nytv.asp\">the best thing<\/a> since TVs were invented (hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20070412\/012740.shtml\">Techdirt<\/a> for the link).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think that YouTube is great, because if you do something like \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDick in a Box,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 someone in Pakistan can see it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Mr. Michaels in a phone interview.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the money quotes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s simple for me,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Mr. Michaels. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If the work is good, I want the most number of people to see it\u00e2\u20ac\u201dperiod. Anything that leads to that would be my objective.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The creators obviously want the biggest possible audience,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d added Mr. Michaels. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And lawyers have another agenda.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with the New York Observer, Lorne Michaels &#8212; the creator of Saturday Night Live and proud product of The Great White North &#8212; says that as far as he&#8217;s concerned, YouTube is the best thing since TVs were invented (hat tip to Techdirt for the link). \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think that YouTube is great, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/04\/13\/lorne-michaels-of-snl-says-youtube-rocks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lorne Michaels of SNL says YouTube rocks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}