Business - Written by Caleb Love on Wednesday, July 9, 2008 13:41 - 2 Comments
The Debate on YouTube
YouTube has entered the political arena once again. This September, New Zeland’s TVNZ and YouTube will partner to launch a website allowing people to submit video questions for the 49th New Zealand Parliamentary election. This demonstrates that even though there were a few “bumps in the road” during 2007 Republican Primaries, the push for including the public will continue. This partnership also shows that “television” realizes the influence YouTube has and is taking advantage of it.
Mark Hopkins explained that controversy arose around the liberal slant of questions being asked. Close to 30% of the questions were planted by declared supporters of the Democratic Party. TVNZ will moderate which videos get posted but the hope is to get as many videos as possible before the debate.
What are your thoughts? Is there a “best practice” for properly moderating what questions are asked and on another vein, is YouTube, with its snowmen and rednecks the best medium for communicating questions in a leadership debate?
2 Comments
Caleb Love
I agree Shaun. The purpose of these debates is to help voters understand who they are voting for. You have a limited amount of time to cover very important topics, but now I have a question, if the responsibility lies with the people regulating the topic, who should those people be? Also, Is it ok to have a little bit of entertainment with these questions? What’s appropriate and what isn’t?
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Heavily moderating the chosen questions is huge for this to work. As much as mass collaboration is huge for tapping into these debates, people should still understand that their questions need to spur discussion and thought, and not be for sheer entertainment purposes (i.e. a declared Edwards supporter questioning Republican primary candidates).
I blame the people choosing the questions in the Republican debate for this rather than those submitting them, as it was an obvious attempt at burying the GOP.