YouTube: the new political arena
p2pnet news | politics:- Ex-actor and ex-US President Ronald Reagan started it, recognizing TV as the most direct way to America’s voting heart.
Today, Democratic candidates who want to replace soon-to-be-ex-US president George W. Bush as the leader of the not-so-free-world will face a battery of questions, with Republican hopefuls doing the same on September 17, says CNN.
And it’ll all happen on America’s most relevant medium.
YouTube.
More than 1,700 questions were submitted, says the story, going on
“At CNN, a small group led by led by Senior Vice President David Bohrman and CNN Political Director Sam Feist is looking over the questions.”
And there you have it: a hard-core corporate media outlet fielding questions to be fired at people hoping to lead the world’s most powerful nation on YouTube, owned by Google, the world’s most powerful advertiser whose owners have political ambitions of their own.
Did someone say three-ringed circus?
“The Democratic debate, the first Democratic National Committee-sanctioned presidential forum of the 2008 election cycle, will be held at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina,” says CNN, adding:
“The Republican presidential forum hosted by CNN and YouTube will take place in Florida. Both will be aired live on CNN.”
The year Reagan was elected president for the first of his two terms, “more people received their political information from television than from any other source,” says the Museum of Broadcast Communications.
“Reagan’s experience as an actor on the screen and on television gave him an enormous advantage as politics moved fully into its television era.”
What looms now they’ve moved into the online video era?
Stay tuned 
JN
Also See:
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political ambitions – Google, world political force, June 19, 2007
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July 23rd, 2007 at 11:38 am
With all the antics going on in Washington today, I’m about ready to chunk both parties and vote indepentent.
Bush is going hog wild with claims nothing is fishy in his political dealings while at the same time denying access to the very records and people that would prove it. His appetite for smashing citizen privacy and rights in his campaign to fight terrorism has reached an absured level as it is the citizens he is spying on not terrorists.
The idea that there is nothing wrong with getting AT&T to spy on it’s customers without so much as paying lip service to the legal side saying it is all legal and yet at the same time having a bill forwarded to let AT&T off the hook for illegal activities can’t be both right. In my mind if there is smoke there is a fire somewhere and right now the smoke looks like a nation sized smoke screen.
Democrats were put in office to bring the troops home. They’ve not even addressed that yet and seem to be stalling, hoping the circus of pressing for the attorneygate evidence will satifisy the people. So far their public ratings give them no break we are falling for it. I see no action other then stagemanship and that isn’t cutting it.
Since there is no satisfaction from either major party, there will be no satisfaction for them when it comes voting time. I do hope they don’t think my memory is so short as to be unable to remember this next year.