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In a week in which YouTube garnered publicity for its efforts in high culture on all three newscasts, ABC's A Closer Look chose a gross video clip instead to dramatize YouTube's vulgarity. David Muir was squeamish about showing a video close-up of Michael Setzer, a 32-year-old pizza counterman at a Domino's franchise in North Carolina, stuffing cheese up his nose before putting it on a pie. Muir tried to reassure putative pizza eaters that the franchise has been disinfected and the counterman fired--but not before more than a million people viewed the stunt.
As for high culture, the YouTube Symphony played to plaudits under Michael Tilson Thomas' baton. ABC's John Berman and NBC's Chris Jansing had offered previews. Now CBS' Michelle Miller covers the concert itself. "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" "Upload! Upload! Upload!"
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