Simplistic Thoughts on the CNN/YouTube Debate |
| Published: July 23, 2007, 4:31 pm |
| Tags: politics, social video, socialvideo, youtube |
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Filed under: Social Media, Social Media MessDarn, I thought the start time of the CNN/YouTube Democratic Debate was... something other than 7PM ET. So I jumped in about halfway through.Oh well, there's always the rerun, and I can just go with Wonkette's liveblogging for a recap. Do I think that anything revolutionary will come out of this? Not particularly -- responding to a canned question is still easier than trying to go back and forth with a live person (though I guess they brought in a few questioners in the audience).Plus, the videos have all been cherry-picked (You can see all the submissions here -- can you imagine what kind of trainwreck it would have been if they went with user-voting to choose the questions? The mind reels) and they seem pretty straightforward. This despite the fact that, as News Bloggers' Ben Greenman notes, CNN had been playing up the more, um, "interesting" submitters in its pre-debate promos, which raises the question -- has this user-generated content [ Full article ] |
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