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Have you guys seen the news that CNN is going to host a debate where presidential candidates will be forced to evade amateur, softball questions posed by YouTube users?
More than 2,000 video questions have been submitted, representing a cross-section of issues and coming from as far away as Spain, Panama and Chad.
CNN editors, including tonight’s debate moderator, CNN host Anderson Cooper, will select as many as four dozen to air in the two-hour broadcast from Charleston, S.C. But the submissions, which must be 30 seconds or less, can be viewed at Youtube.com.
That’s a pretty sweet debate idea. Bringing the debate back to the masses instead of having some boring, pre-arranged posing contest where candidates spend too much time thanking the host for such an excellent question. Let’s have some stupid questions, so they can skip that part and go straight to the answer!
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Ben 07.25.07 at 4:09 pm
I should point out that this (at least the first one, for the Dems) happened on Monday.
And, if you didn’t see it (I only saw a few clips, as I was at the hearing with you), evade the questions they (often) did.
I’m not sure if its implementation amounted to gimmick or actually “bringing the debate back to the masses,” but it was certainly an interesting idea. Props to whomever it was who first said, “Hey, what if we have people submit questions on YouTube?”
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