How Will CNN/YouTube Portray The Electorate?
July 23, 2007
| 5:51 PM
I quoted Jeff Jarvis of PrezVid in my YouTube debate preview story today, and as typically is the case with traditional journalism, I wasn't able to fit all of his insights into our coverage. But that's OK because Jarvis is a blogger and addressed in detail at his own site the points he made in our interview.
Here's a sampling from PrezVid:
The YouTube debates could fundamentally change the dynamics of politics in America, giving a voice to the people, letting us be heard by the powerful and the public, enabling us to coalesce around our interests and needs, and even teaching reporters who are supposed to ask questions in our stead how they should really do it.
The debates could also demonstrate that democracy is in good hands, that we care, we are smart, we are informed. ... Finally, the debates could begin to change the relationship between candidates and voters. ... The wise candidates should go into those 2,000 questions and start answering the toughest ones.
All this could happen. Or CNN could pick the dutiful, dull, obvious, sophomoric questions and make us look like a nation of dolts.
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