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YouTube Preps 96 Channels With Original Content (Multichannel News) Google's YouTube, looking to attract more advertising with professionally produced content, plans to launch some 96 new video channels in the next year featuring original content from a range of entertainment, sports, and news partners. CNET: Amateur hour may not exactly be over at YouTube, but it looks like the time has finally come for the sleeping kitties and exploding pop bottles to make some room for professionally produced content from the likes of Madonna, The Onion, TED Conferences, and others. TechCrunch: There are some big names on the list. But there are still a lot of questions: Will this content really rival the premium production values seen on cable? Will the shows be exclusive to YouTube? And how exactly is YouTube going to tweak the site's user experience as it looks to shift users from funny cat videos toward these shows (which advertisers will be able to more effectively monetize)? NYT: The channels will receive programming from a long list of media companies, including big television production companies like FremantleMedia, as well as small startups like Maker Studios, YouTube said. GigaOM / NewTeeVee: An onslaught of exclusive content from a parade of A-list stars including Madonna, Rainn Wilson, Tony Hawk, Ashton Kutcher, Shaq, and others will be coming to YouTube in the next few months as the site is positioning itself as the next big cable channel, with the exception that you won't need a cable subscription to watch it. AllThingsD: The channels aren't all premised around the idea of celebrities and Hollywood per se -- just the idea that someone with some idea of how to make good stuff will start making stuff specifically for the site. paidContent: Here's the YouTube partner rundown in alphabetical order. AdAge / Digital: Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback: "As the sixth-biggest network on YouTube (per comScore), here at Revision3, we're excited to have you traditional media folks on board. However, let me give you some words of advice. Despite your official anointment, it's not like high school, but with better drugs. YouTube is different. So let me be the unofficial orientation coordinator and give you five key tips to help you be successful with your new venture."

CNN Restructures Daytime Staffing; Two-Dozen Jobs Affected (TVNewser) TVNewser has learned that writers at CNN headquarters in Atlanta were told Friday that their jobs are being reclassified as writer/producer, leaving many longtime staffers with the choice of reapplying for their jobs or departing the network with a severance package.

Occupy Protestor Assaults WNYW Reporter (TVSpy) A disgruntled Occupy Wall Street protestor confronted WNYW's John Huddy Friday morning as he was covering the latest developments in Zuccotti Park, and the situation quickly turned ugly. Yahoo! News / The Cutline: White House Press Secretary Jay Carney held his daily briefing with reporters Thursday, the first since returning from President Barack Obama's swing through California and Colorado. Reporters traveling with the president aboard Air Force One were criticized Wednesday for not asking Carney about the violence that erupted during the Occupy Oakland protests earlier in the week, even though the president and the White House press corps made a stop in the Bay area. On Thursday, however, the press did raise questions about the Oakland standoff between protestors and police. Yahoo! News / The Cutline: Most Web searches for Occupy Wall Street are originating in the hippie-loving states of Vermont and Oregon, according to a topical analysis of search trends by search giant (and Yahoo! competitor) Google.

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CW Strikes Hulu Deal To Score More Revenue For Programs (AdAge / MediaWorks) The CW wants viewers to watch its shows -- so much that it's increasingly adding ways to watch them in venues other than The CW. B&C: Two weeks after making a billion-dollar deal to stream programming from past seasons on Netflix, The CW has signed a deal to put current episodes on Hulu and Hulu Plus. TechCrunch: Hulu announced a five-year licensing agreement with The CW, which is owned by CBS and Warner Bros., for the rights to stream in-season episodes of The CW's programming on Hulu Plus' subscription service and the platform's free, ad-supported service. paidContent: Hulu Plus will be the only subscription service with in-season episodes; the five most recent shows will be available the day after broadcast. Ad-supported Hulu.com will have the five most recent shows eight days after air. But it's not a full exclusive -- the deal still allows for access via authentication by cable operators, and The CW will stream episodes on its own cwtv.com before they show up on Hulu.com. AllThingsD: It's important to note upfront that Hulu is paying cash for the programming. While the video site -- a joint venture between Disney, News Corp., Comcast, and Providence Equity -- has discussed bringing in another equity partner, that's not happening with this particular deal.

Facebook Games For NCIS, House, And CSI: Miami Being Developed By Ubisoft (THR) Ubisoft has had success over the years bringing hit TV shows like CSI, CSI: Miami, and CSI: New York to PC and console gamers worldwide. Now the company is adding to the game-play experience with new Facebook games based on those hit television properties and more.

Facebook Halloween Photo Uploads Will Top 1.2 Billion (AllFacebook) Most likely, photo uploading to Facebook will outdo the more than 1.2 billion images that went up last year at this time -- 10 times the number that got uploaded for Halloween in 2008.

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Yoko Ono To Introduce MTV's Steve Jobs Tribute (FishbowlLA) MTV has tapped artist Yoko Ono to introduce its music tribute to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs at the second annual O Music Awards Monday night.

Heron: 'I Think My Job Will Probably Not Exist In Five Years' (Nieman Journalism Lab) Is the most up-and-coming job in journalism -- the social media editor -- a permanent position at news outlets, or a transitional role? At a panel discussing social media best practices at the Journalism Interactive conference Friday morning, the New York Times' co-social media editor, Liz Heron, said her own position probably falls on the side of transitional.

Washington Post Creates Chief Experience Officer Position (Poynter / Romenesko) Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth said the paper is creating this CXO post, as it's called, "to strengthen the voice of the consumer in our product development and execution." Laura Evans, who has spent most of her nine years at the Post as chief researcher, has been named to the position.

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James Rainey Trading Media Column For Reporting (FishbowlLA) James Rainey wrote his last "On the Media" column for the Los Angeles Times Saturday, as the columnist will focus more on reporting on the media going forward.

Arianna Huffington's Colorful Court History (paidContent) Arianna Huffington's current legal battle over the rights to the idea for The Huffington Post isn't her first encounter with the court system.

More Than 25 Million Watch World Series Game 7 (TVNewser) Friday night's deciding World Series game between the St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers was seen by more than 25 million people.

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The Brian Williams Rock Center Promotional Blitz Continues Unabated (TVNewser) NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams has been making seemingly endless guest appearances on NBC Universal programs, on top of his nightly gig on the evening newscast.

Nick Kristof Thinks HLN 'Can Do Better' (TVNewser) New York Times op-ed columnist Nick Kristof is in Vietnam shooting a documentary for his Half the Sky project. He flipped on the TV Saturday morning and felt he needed to tweet this: "Watching CNN HLN from Vietnam. And thinking that HLN has really gone downhill. Shld be renamed the crime channel, no?"

CBS News Revives 'On The Road' Segment, Steve Hartman To Report (TVNewser) CBS Evening News is bringing back its classic "On the Road" segments made famous by Charles Kuralt on the program in the 1960s and 1970s. For the 21st century installment of the program, Steve Hartman has been tapped as the correspondent to do the exploring. NYT / Media Decoder: In 2008, CBS had Hartman, a correspondent for the network since 1998, revisit several of the people featured in Kuralt's original segments for a four-part Evening News series.

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by Rochelle van Amber and Biodun Iginla, BBC News

They remembered friends who died and brave Iraqis they had met, but news on Friday that the Iraq war was ending couldn't erase questions among U.S. veterans about whether it has all been worth it.

  Sentiment about whether the nearly nine-year war was right or wrong was as divided among veterans as public opinion in general about a conflict that began with the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003 and will end when 40,000 U.S. troops are pulled out by the year-end holidays.

  Over its course, about 4,400 U.S. military personnel died and another 32,000 were wounded. Tens of thousands of Iraqis were killed.

  While welcome news for families waiting for loved ones to return home, veterans know that it is not an end to foreign deployments, with battles still to fight in Afghanistan.

  "For us, it's a personal connection. For most Americans they probably thought the war in Iraq was already over," said Paul Rieckhoff, executive director of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.

  "It's been a long ride and we've lost a lot of friends and we've had a lot of friends come home wounded and injured, and I think at times like this we always remember the people that we lost," said Rieckhoff, an Army platoon leader in Iraq in 2003-04.

  President Barack Obama announced the end of the Iraq war on Friday with surprisingly little fanfare -- no big event, no big signs, no big crowds.

  "The last American soldier will cross the border out of Iraq with their heads held high, proud of their success, and knowing that the American people stand united in our support for our troops," he said in the White House press room.

  "That is how America's military efforts in Iraq will end."

  But U.S. veterans were divided over whether pulling out was the right course of action. Some welcomed it, others felt the job was unfinished.

  Daryl Boggs, Jr., a member of the Army Reserve, was injured by an improvised explosive device in Iraq just a month after arriving in March 2003. He suffered shrapnel wounds to his lower body, a fractured leg and a brain injury, and was awarded the Purple Heart for those wounded in action.

  "The way I felt from the very beginning was each one of us was there to do a certain job. You feel that what you did was right," he said.

  'WAR IS HELL'

  Every veteran of the Iraq war will have to decide whether the war was worth the cost, Boggs, who works in Ohio, said. But he would not change the journey he took.

  "What happened, happened. War is hell," he said. "I was meant to do a job in this world and I felt I did it. If I was meant to get injured, I was meant to get injured."

  Marc Wolfson, 25, of Tampa, Florida, who served two stints in Iraq during his four years in the Marine Corps, said it sounded "more like a retreat than a withdrawal."

  The U.S. military still needs to mentor young Iraqis and help rebuild the country, he said. Otherwise, Iraqi anger toward Americans will build and U.S. troops will be forced to return in the future.

  "If we pull out like this, it's going to be a total failure," Wolfson said.

  "I think that people haven't left with their heads held high for a long time from Iraq," he said. "I pretty much left feeling as though I didn't accomplish anything."

  Republican Congressman Mike Coffman still becomes emotional when he remembers an Iraqi worker at a voting station who was wounded in an attack during a national election but refused to be evacuated. He was determined to stay until the polls closed because it took so much courage for Iraqis to come out in that area to vote.

  "There were times when I just felt that it would never end. That it was just war without end. We had no traction," said Coffman of Colorado, who served in Iraq with the Marine Corps Reserve in 2005-2006.

  But he agreed with Obama's decision. "We're bringing the war to a just conclusion," Coffman said.

  Janette Perry, 47, a nurse from Ohio whose son served in Iraq, was visiting the Vietnam War Veteran's Memorial in Washington and said she did not agree with the decision to withdraw troops.

  "I understand that there's a price," she said. "You don't withdraw until it's done and it's not done."