Subject: [Homestead] Year of the YouTube Campaign Video
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:09:49 -0400
Hey, I'm sorry to spam Kos again...but the front page blog right now
is "The Year of the YouTube Campaign Video". Given our brief exchange
about You Tube and it's blech factor, I offer this as an alternative
take. Maybe see what you think? http://www.dailykos.com/
"Many pundits and media commentators made a fuss in 2006, calling that
election the YouTube election. For years anyone with a video camera
could capture pols in embarrassing moments, but if the video was never
shared with others, or if the gatekeepers in television news didn't
deem it "newsworthy," few would see it. YouTube eliminated the
monopoly of the gatekeepers, and both campaigns and those who wanted
to take down a candidate seized the opportunities to disseminate
video. The archetypal example of the changes wrought by YouTube is
the defeat of Virginia Senator George Allen due in part to his now-
infamous Macaca moment. We're currently in a very peculiar YouTube
moment in the Democratic nomination contest."
Given the discussion we are having about Obama, and the main stream
media being bought and paid for, it might be interesting to somebody.
Celia
[Homestead] Year of the YouTube Campaign Video,
paxamicus, 03/25/2008