Comments on: YouTube CNN Democratic Debate – It actually worked. http://blog.see3.net/2007/07/23/youtube-cnn-democratic-debate-it-actually-worked/ the blog of See3 Communications Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:37:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ben Homer http://blog.see3.net/2007/07/23/youtube-cnn-democratic-debate-it-actually-worked/ the blog of See3 Communications Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:37:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comments on: YouTube CNN Democratic Debate – It actually worked. http://blog.see3.net/2007/07/23/youtube-cnn-democratic-debate-it-actually-worked/ the blog of See3 Communications Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:37:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ben Homer http://blog.see3.net/2007/07/23/youtube-cnn-democratic-debate-it-actually-worked/comment-page-1/#comment-9564 Ben Homer Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:40:20 +0000 http://blog.see3.net/?p=208#comment-9564 I completely agree. Sure, it wasn't perfect. But it made people think about an election based on the issues from the standpoint of real people. And it took the focus off the war of words and put it on the best solution to real problems. And don't kid yourself, if the online voting had been used to choose questions, it would have been a PAC-driven free-for-all. We would have seen a ton of staged questions by those on the fringes and questions chosen by followers of people like Ron Paul. CNN did a great job with this, and just a reminder, no one else has yet released debate footage free to the public like them. If you want to post a video from a future non-CNN debate you will be doing it illegally. I completely agree. Sure, it wasn’t perfect. But it made people think about an election based on the issues from the standpoint of real people. And it took the focus off the war of words and put it on the best solution to real problems.

And don’t kid yourself, if the online voting had been used to choose questions, it would have been a PAC-driven free-for-all. We would have seen a ton of staged questions by those on the fringes and questions chosen by followers of people like Ron Paul.

CNN did a great job with this, and just a reminder, no one else has yet released debate footage free to the public like them. If you want to post a video from a future non-CNN debate you will be doing it illegally.

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