MTV ‘youth’ US election coverage
p2pnet news | P2P:- Corporate media barons are slowly and reluctantly being forced to recognize: a) the young people of the world; b) P2P; and, c) the Net as integral components of 21st century communications.
Now Viacom MTV hass pushed itself ahead of the pack with the recruitment of 51 “youths” to report on the collapse of US president George W. Bush’s besmirched reign, says Associated Press.
They’ll cover the 2008 elections across the country with weekly items which’ll include short videos, blogs and animation, it says, going on:
“The reports will be distributed through Think.MTV.com, an issue-based political and community Web site run by MTV; to mobile devices through a soon-to-be launched service called MTV Mobile; and through The Associated Press’ Online Video Network, a video news service.”
The move comes as part of MTV’s Choose or Lose “political awareness campaign” and was funded partly by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, a private journalism foundation based in Miami, says the story, adding:
“The participants in the program will be equipped with laptop computers, cell phones and video cameras and tasked with finding political stories that will particularly resonate with young people. Participants in the “Street Team ‘08″ project have profiles on Think.MTV.com. MTV recruited one member from every state as well as Washington, D.C.”
Also See:
Associated Press – MTV recruits youths to cover elections, December 20, 2007
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December 20th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Parents beware, this campaign may inspire the entertainment cartels to recruit your childen to make news favourable to them! They already have a heavy hand in schools.