{"id":532,"date":"2007-07-25T13:53:42","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T20:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=532"},"modified":"2007-11-28T17:34:29","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T01:34:29","slug":"we-report-cnnyoutube-decides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"We Report. CNN\/YouTube Decides"},"content":{"rendered":"

The one clearly positive aspect of this “ground-breaking”<\/em> experiment in television journalism, is that watching cutesy citizens asking evasive candidates questions that hunky moderators won’t follow-up on, is still better than watching washed-up reporters asking the same questions even more boringly.<\/p>\n

Many in the media have declared the experiment a success. The Washington Post proclaimed that, “The debate underscored the arrival of the Internet as a force in politics.”<\/em> That’s if you don’t count Howard Dean’s campaign in 2004; or MoveOn.org; or George Allen’s “macaca moment”<\/em> last year; and the list goes on.<\/p>\n

What they might be touting as success is how effectively the debate did achieve one of its goals: They got young people<\/a> to watch. With a total audience of 2.6 million, it was a notable showing for a debate so far in advance of an election. Also, CNN reported getting 45.5 million page views on its Web site. But the real coup is that 407,000 of those viewers were in the coveted 18-34 year old demographic. The CNN broadcast was the 9th most viewed (pdf)<\/a> debate in history in that demo. Of the top ten, it was the only one broadcast this electoral season (the others were in 2004). It was also the only primary debate. And all nine of the others aired within five weeks of an election. That would have to be considered a respectable performance.<\/p>\n

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\nHowever, the performance of the editors at CNN leaves something to be desired. While they found the time to include a talking snowman and a singing inquirer, for some reason they chose not to present YouTube’s top question<\/a> as determined by the YouTube community. Could it be because the question dared to raise the specter of (gasp) IMPEACHMENT?

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\nWe report. CNN\/YouTube Decides<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The one clearly positive aspect of this “ground-breaking” experiment in television journalism, is that watching cutesy citizens asking evasive candidates questions that hunky moderators won’t follow-up on, is still better than watching washed-up reporters asking the same questions even more boringly. Many in the media have declared the experiment a success. The Washington Post proclaimed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-ratings","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-8A","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":417,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=417","url_meta":{"origin":532,"position":0},"title":"Presidential Debates Online: A Virtual Reality","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/23\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The presidential primary debate calendar just got a virtual boost with the addition of the first online-only candidate forums. 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