YouTube is going to be the place to submit your debate questions in for the July 23rd Presidential debates in South Carolina. It appears that Anderson Cooper will be the moderator in this historic debate process.
Now imagine a college student in jeans and a T-shirt asking a question, less reverentially, more pointedly and using powerful visual images to underscore the point. Maybe he or she will ask about the war in Iraq — and show clips from a soldier’s funeral. Or a mushroom cloud. The question might come as a rap song or through spliced images of a candidate’s contradictory statements.
The presidential debates are about to enter the world of YouTube, the anything-goes home-video-sharing Web site that puts the power in the hands of the camera holder. YouTube, which is owned by Google, and CNN are co-sponsoring a debate among the eight Democratic presidential candidates on July 23 in South Carolina, an event that could define the next phase of what has already been called the YouTube election, in which anyone with a video camera might alter the political debate.
After you just read the above quote, you probably expect some fire at these debates. Don’t be surprised if there are none. The thing with YouTube, is that the videos will all be submitted before hand. Do you really believe something will “accidentally” be shown?
All the details will be coming out tomorrow morning in a joint CNN and YouTube press conference which starts at 8:30am pacific time.
Technically Speaking, Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake showed us all why “live” is no longer really “live” unless you are there at the event in person.
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