News and Politics | July 24, 2007 | 8 comments

You Tube/CNN debate

source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/24/MNG0QR5P171.DTL

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sarahbelle
good article on the YouTube/CNN debate from SF Chronicle
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8 comments // You Tube/CNN debate

  • dbeckmann
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      dbeckmann  

    • There were four things missing from YouTube’s debate yesterday(pardon my groginess—there’s probably more):

      Our demographic’s interests (no one has done anything about our interests yet and there’s no break-out candidate that’s capturing our minds)
      The debate---this was a virtual TOWN MEETING (we don’t debate any more...its a roll call of questions, the candidates never confront each other in the present form—Lincoln/Douglas was a debate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln-Douglas_debate)
      Virtually no substanitive political News was made
      #4) CNN picked the questions—not YouTube, and not the audience. What’s the difference between going out and shooting MOS video of questions and hitting play at a Ted Koppel Town meeting and what we saw last night? The audience got to see the questions, but they didn’t have a say in which ones were answered...

    • 5 years ago
  • sgi
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      sgi  

    • I thought John Edwards really came across as creepy. I thought he might make a good vice but no longer. He is definitely off of my radar. If you watch the debate every question he was asked he would start by repeating the question, rephrasing the question and then asking a similar question thereby wasting most of his allotted time and ducking out of an answer.

    • 5 years ago
  • Swiyyah
  • khsing
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      khsing  
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    • Slate: The highly hyped experiment in user-generated content worked. In the privacy of their homes, people were at ease, and their videos reflected that.

    • 5 years ago
  • Aaaaaaaah
  • shampton
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      shampton  
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    • here's a good post from Jeff Jarvis; he says, "I have no doubt ˜ no doubt ˜ that we, the people, would have done a better job picking the questions than CNN did."

      Current TV should be hosting the next debate :)

    • 5 years ago
  • Swiyyah
  • Swiyyah
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