We liked them very much, especially being in them. A very exciting and
surprisingly emotional experience.
That said
Next time, I think you tube viewers should choose the questions, the
candidate you tube type videos should be you tube type videos - a
candidate and a webcam, that's it.
I think the debates have revolitionized participatory politics. I
submitted questions, and a post debate commentary that was featured
extensively on the network. I blogged about my experience
yesterday, but overall it's a great time to be involved in new
media.
The only thing is the
I didn't get a chance to see it, I don't have cable but one of the
things I thought odd was that CNN got to choose/filter the videos
before airing.
Now I'm not necessarily saying that is or is not a bad thing. If CNN
is footing the bill and you want to set a certain tone for the type of
Yea, I was a bit worried about them being able to select the
questions but I really thought that the questions were a good cross
section of questions...
Heath
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I didn't get a chance to see it, I don't
I didnt see it, Im in the UK, but I just read this story about it
which I felt covered a lot of ground:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070724/youtube_debate_070724/20070724?hub=World
or
http://tinyurl.com/299ukk
Personally I feel that the flaw that theres still a
I suppose one other flaw with doing it through youtube, is that
candidates can be aware of the questions in advance. Im not suggesting
Hillary would watch all 3000 or so of the possible questions in
advance, but I would guess that advisors would look through a good
chunk of them in advance to see
There really wasn't any other way for them to do it. YouTube's systems can
be gamed to easily to allow youtubers to select the questions the
candidates committees would have had no problem gaming the system in order
to get the questions they wanted rated into the debate.
Overall I think
I liked the debate a lot. I think that having the public submit
questions allowed CNN to pose questions to the candidates that they
might have been too chicken to pose. It gave them some cover. The
YouTubers were way more interesting than having the usual talking heads.
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