I regularly post screen shots of DrudgeReport.com as I usually view very good marketing pieces there.  Ben Stein has released a new movie called Expelled The Movie.  It’s a documentary about Intelligent Design, science, and religion.  One of the actors/professors in the movie is Richard Dawkins - Dawkins recently became famous around the world for espousing that “God” is no more real than a Goblin, Elf, Fairy, or Zeus himself.  Dawkins has been a master at manipulating the media for the past few years.  It seems like Dawkins spends more time doing media and public relations than doing research for Oxford and science.  I have to say, that if he wasn’t as intelligent as he is he wouldn’t have come as far as he has, and his logically based arguments are really good.  Dawkins is a great debater and a brilliant metaphysicist.  Below are the two screen shots of Ben Stein’s latest foray into Hollywood and political/intellectual broadcasting.  I was unable to get the rich media advertisement to expand again on DrugeReport.com after viewing it once.  Go watch the preview of Expelled The Movie - it looks great.  I wonder how many people in the US though wouldn’t rather watch Hannah Montana.

The # 1 viewed YouTube video today is Chinese propoganda. Below are screen shots:

I have to admit, the video brings out some valid points about Tibet being part of China. However, I don’t want to get into a political debate about whether or not Tibet should be a free nation or part of China. I would rather discuss the marketing and public relation aspects of using YouTube to espouse political views. To make a YouTube video one of the most watched videos, it is 99% of the time, viewed on a popular website with lots of visitors, and it becomes one of the most watched videos of the day, and then people visit the most watched videos of the day, generating even more daily views. This video receive a majority of its views from this chinese website. This video refutes all the negative press that US Media puts out about China, and hundreds of thousands of Americans have watched this. This hurts the Bush administration’s position on China and Tibet - and I think that position is pro Tibet and passively against China, as the Lama was just recently given some sort of peace prize from Bush. In short, YouTube is becoming a PR nightmare for powerful organizations and governments.