July 24, 2007
What YouTube doesn't change
Another interesting (negative) analysis of last night's CNN*YouTube debate, by Matthew Yglesias for The Guardian.
"Last night's YouTube-sponsored Democratic presidential debate just took an old question-and-answer format and made it much, much worse.
... It would have been fantastic if CNN, Google (YouTube's parent company), or the Democratic Party had figured out some way to harness it for the purposes of Monday night's debate. Instead what happened is that a bunch of people made videos of themselves asking questions, CNN's staff watched the 3,000 or so videos, they picked some that they liked, and then played them on CNN's cable broadcast of the debate.
The results, predictably, were less entertaining than watching a DVD, but much less informative than trying to, say, read something.
In this neither entertaining nor enlightening manner, of course, the debate greatly resembled, well, the debates of the pre-YouTube era."
Related: - Their Debate - According to Jeff Jarvis, the CNN*YouTube debate was a bust.
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