YouTube & CNN to co-sponsor presidential debates
CNN and YouTube recently reported they are going to co-sponsor approaching presidential debates. The tag line is that people (aka web users) are allowed to submit questions to candidates through Google Inc.’s YouTube video sharing community.
At the same time, I feel you remember in what way some candidates try to come up with. Political figuresa are on a war footing as if they are prepared for anything.
Out of sight the role of presidential debate co-sponsors (CNN and YouTube) has been reserved for mainstream television and video sharing sites, including print outlets.
“It’s really a new day,” Carol Darr, director of the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet at George Washington University, said of YouTube’s role. “You go fishing where the fish are,” she said.
You would be interested to know some details of the format for the YouTube and CNN debate were released.
“The idea of using the technology of YouTube and marrying it with traditional television could be really interesting” such as giving viewers new ways to comment on the debate and follow-up and ask questions of the candidates, said Bob Boorstin, director of policy communications for Google in Washington, D.C.
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