The Internet Election

There's no doubt about it, the way we conduct campaigns in America is now forever altered. The decentralized Internet continues to rise as a means for news distribution while print media and television news continue to decline. Political content, in the form of blog posts, low-production news shows, cell phone video clips, and candidate web offerings, has exploded over the past six years. YouTube can take the credit for sinking George Allen's senate re-election bid in '06. QubeTV will try to do the same to Democratic candidates in '08. To be sure, there's something thrilling about stumbling onto a raw piece of footage, an outrageous gaffe, or some new bit of information that has yet to make a splash in the traditional media. There's a do-it-yourself spirit to web grazing that can make you feel like something of a detective.

But as the saying goes, everything old is new again. Witness the trend of YouTube news shows and MySpace sitcoms. These low-production value offerings are cropping up all over the place, returning us to the way news and information used to edited and packaged for our consumption, only with worse lighting. Take the following clip, for example. A top-ten round up of weekly political intrigue. Rest assured, our politicians have gotten the memo.

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