News, Politics & the Internet Panel<< The Internet Comes to New York | Main | Mining Cellphone Data to Derive Global Social Networks >> David Schatsky | June 04, 2008, 01:09 PM There was a lively discussion at the panel this morning on News, Politics & the Internet, hosted by Time Warner at their NYC headquarters in support of Internet Week New York. On the stage: Steve Grove pointed out that videos posted on YouTube by Obama supporters got far more views than those posted by the candidate's team; that the enormous popularity of Obama's now-famous 37-minute speech on race shattered the myth that only short video clips find an audience online. And he suggested that the Obama campaign may have benefited from analyzing the comments that official video posts attracted to shape subsequent speeches. Nadira Hira showed good humor in accepting the role as interpreter of young folks, and folks of color, for Fortune's readers, observed that Facebook lit up with conversation during the conclusion of the presidential primary season last night. Michael Scherer (who also blogs at Time's Swampland) noted that the Internet is "not a community of activities--it's a tool that anyone can use" and credited the Obama campaign of appealing early to a "new online populism." Scherer also echoed Jupiter's view that news products are being deconstructed, and that news organizations are competing story by story. (A series of research reports by Barry Parr paint the picture, here, here and here. And here's a recent one on politics specifically.)
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