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A solution is for the Internet industry to start giving free advertising to political campaigns on our own new media assets... assets like YouTube that are rapi
by LVB 15y ago
A solution is for the Internet industry to start giving free advertising to political campaigns on our own new media assets... assets like YouTube that are rapidly displacing television.
I'm not sure what this fixes. I already get to see and hear campaign ads incessantly. What would be my desire to go watch more on YouTube? They've already become background noise to me because the messages originating from the candidates and super PACs range from heavily spun at best to plainly false. I don't learn anything from them.
Better would be to offer more compelling solutions than ads. Things like highly interactive, real-time Q/A and debating schemes would engage the electorate by allowing them to rapidly see who is for real and who is an empty, purchased, Presidential-looking shell.
I'll throw out one specific idea: during debates, let's have a Watson-like presence on stage that is, in real time, able to display the BS-factor of what's being uttered. Wouldn't that be fun?
- fferen 15y agoWell, presumably ads are fairly effective for the majority of the populace as candidates are willing to spend a lot of money on them. On a side note, I personally see a Ron Paul ad every other Youtube video on the occasions when I have AdBlock disabled, which may be why he has such strong support among younger voters.