Comments on: Eight ways to improve your online political coverage http://www.lostremote.com/2007/09/06/eight-ways-to-improve-your-online-political-coverage/ Where TV Finds the Future Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:27:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Brink http://www.lostremote.com/2007/09/06/eight-ways-to-improve-your-online-political-coverage/#comment-482596 Brink Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:27:08 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/09/06/eight-ways-to-improve-your-online-political-coverage/#comment-482596 "They are talking, shouting, fighting and arguing. It’s messy and it’s wonderful. " Wonderful? Does that include the name-calling, divisivness, mud-slinging, and general nastiness that appears every time these topics arise on internet forums? Yeah, that's wonderful. I'll pass. “They are talking, shouting, fighting and arguing. It’s messy and it’s wonderful. ”

Wonderful? Does that include the name-calling, divisivness, mud-slinging, and general nastiness that appears every time these topics arise on internet forums?

Yeah, that’s wonderful. I’ll pass.

]]> By: Z http://www.lostremote.com/2007/09/06/eight-ways-to-improve-your-online-political-coverage/#comment-482465 Z Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:38:34 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/09/06/eight-ways-to-improve-your-online-political-coverage/#comment-482465 "Take a lesson from YouTube - people want to create their own homebrewed political ads Invite voters to send in videos of themselves asking politicians questions. When you interview the politicians - include these in the questions." You know, I like these...but my market seems to have virtually no viewers who want to do this sort of thing. Just getting them to contribute photos to slideshows is like pulling teeth, no matter which station is doing it. “Take a lesson from YouTube - people want to create their own homebrewed political ads
Invite voters to send in videos of themselves asking politicians questions. When you interview the politicians - include these in the questions.”

You know, I like these…but my market seems to have virtually no viewers who want to do this sort of thing. Just getting them to contribute photos to slideshows is like pulling teeth, no matter which station is doing it.

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