Media Minutes: February 5, 2010
Series: Media Minutes
From: Stevie Converse Candace Clement
Length: 00:05:00
President Barack Obama reaffirmed his strong commitment to maintaining an open and neutral Internet during a crowd-sourced "interview" conducted on YouTube. And words from the departed historian, author, playright and educator, Howard Zinn.
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President Barack Obama reaffirmed his strong commitment to maintaining an open and neutral Internet during a crowd-sourced "interview" conducted on YouTube. And words from the departed historian, author, playright and educator, Howard Zinn.
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Media Minutes
Show Date: 02-05-10
Producers: Stevie Converse and Candace Clement
TRANSCRIPT
President Barack Obama Voices Strong Support for Net Neutrality
President Barack Obama reaffirmed his strong commitment to maintaining an open and neutral Internet during a crowd-sourced "interview" conducted on YouTube. It was the first interview given by the president since his speech.
As a follow-up to the President's State of the Union speech, YouTube collected questions and votes for five days. More than 55,000 submitted and voted on both video and text questions. 11,696 questions were submitted.
Obama answered a question about Network Neutrality from James Earlywine of Indianapolis. Earlywine’s question received more than 1,300 votes, placing it at the top of the list in the "jobs and economy" category. The question was read by YouTube's Steve Grove.
Steve Grove (1.27) – The numbe...
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Paul Butler
Posted on February 04, 2010 at 10:17 PM | Permalink
Needs further thematic development
The sound bytes are interesting and well used and are setup well, but the theme needs a little more connection to them. While I realize that feature is about "outsider voices" the narration seemed to lack interest and may detract from the message/theme. The feature seems to lack focus...