Previewing the CNN/YouTube debate…
Town Hall.com’s Mary Katherine Ham has an interview with Anderson Cooper and CNN D.C. Bureau Chief David Boorman in the run up to tonight’s CNN/YouTube debate…
Q: Things are heating up on both primary sides right about now. How does it feel to know you’re walking into a slugfest?
AC: “You know, you never know what it’s gonna end up being like. It’ll certainly be interesting…rhetoric’s been heating up.”
Q: Why do it? Why does a YouTube debate matter, and what does it mean for politics in ’08—this democratization of politics?
AC: “I’m not sure where it’s going. It’s definitely changing things, I think. I’ve watched basically all the debates since the first YouTube debate—all had some kind of user-generated content, I think…”
“Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, and that’s the way it goes.
“But once you’ve seen the possibilities, it’s pretty interesting, and technology’s only going to improve.”
