VCasts and Podcasts: Additional Strategies of New Media

[Annie]

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April 13, 2006
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Vlogs: The Cure For 'Gotcha' Journalism?

Yesterday's update to my ongoing list of links to candidate and lawmaker interviews included a series of pointers to video blog clips with Sen. John McCain at Ankle Biting Pundits.

That site has a new clip up today, this one with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. The topic is the war in Iraq.

Gingrich is not technically a lawmaker or candidate, but that's not the reason for this separate blurb. Rather, my goal here is to draw attention to something profound that Patrick Hynes said about video blogs, or vlogs, in his blog entry to highlight the video.

"Blogs have already damaged the credibility of the MSM," he wrote. "I believe vlogging has the potential to kill off agenda-driven, gotcha journalism. Newsmakers can now go straight to the people with the facts, not run them through the filter of what Rush [Limbaugh] calls 'the drive-by media.'"

He's absolutely correct -- and that's why I expect to see more vlogging in both the political and policy arenas.

Posted by dglover | 12:51 PM