The PBS Newshour is doing a segment Monday on "the race online" - from their media email newsletter:
The Internet is quickly becoming an important tool in political campaigning, and should have a strong role in the 2008 presidential election. The cause for this recent phenomenon is due largely in part to the rise of popular online video-sharing websites like YouTube.com, which have simplified the transfer and sharing of information through videos on the Internet. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton became the latest politician to utilize the Internet for a campaign by announcing her plans to run for president on Saturday through an online video on her website. She also plans to participate in three live online chats starting tonight.
The 2006 midterm elections also saw the powerful effect of the Internet, as the now infamous George Allen "macaca" online video derailed his campaign for re-election as senator of Virginia.
Jeffrey Brown will be interviewing Carol Darr, director of The George Washington University's "Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet."
Video, audio, and a transcript should be online after 9 pm ET at
http://www.pbs.org/...
There is nothing at the media page yet, but there is an mp3
of the segment online
http://www.pbs.org/...
update: Nothing very profound. It would be have been better to have a variety of voices.
But we are "golden people" who are influencial news junkies.
"I think what you are going to see in 2008 are a lot of tracker provacatuers."